Word: marzottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Papa Marzotto did not want his four boys to race. It was raining hard, the mountain roads were slick and treacherous, and there was word of snow in the passes. A veteran road-racer himself before he got too busy with his textile business, 55-year-old Father Marzotto knew about such things. But this race was the Mille Miglia, Italy's most important road contest for stock cars, and the Marzotto brothers were determined to drive their Ferraris in the big international field of 383 drivers, many of them Europe's top professionals. As it turned...
...watching crowds along the 1,000-mile course (Brescia to Rome and back) were almost as intense as the drivers. But wealthy Papa Marzotto (Count of Valdagno Castelvecchio), who had supplied the boys with the best in snappy motor cars, was so mad at his venturesome sons that he refused to go out to see the start of the race...
...were sent off first, then the larger cars-mostly powerful Italian Alfa Romeos and Ferraris and British Jaguars. The man to beat, the experts thought, was four-time winner Clemente Biondetti, a hard-bitten roadwise pro who drove a big Jaguar. No one gave Gianni, Vittorio, Paolo and Umberto Marzotto much of a chance...