Word: nuvolari
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorite was blond Bernd Rosemeyer of Germany who last year won seven out of eight Grand Prix races in Europe, easily outclassed Italy's Tazio Nuvolari, the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup winner. Rosemeyer got away fast at the start this week, temporarily yielded his lead to his countryman Rudolf Caracciola until the tenth lap. Noisiest and swiftest (160 m.p.h.) on the straightaways, Rosemeyer roared up a lead of two-thirds of a lap before the race was one-third run. Headed only when he dropped out for tire changes on the 79th lap, Rosemeyer soon caught young Dick Seaman...
...race were divided into two groups. In one group were grease-stained, speedway-trained U. S. professionals whose big, fast cars lacked the transmissions and brakes needed for road racing. In the other group were seasoned road racers like Italy's Count Antonio Brivio and Tazio Nuvolari, England's Hon. Brian Lewis and Lord Howe. For their cars, designed for up-&-downhill, cross-country racing, level curves were a minor problem...
Long before the race started last week, time trials had made it apparent that U. S. drivers would be outclassed. Fastest qualifying time was made by nervous little Roman-nosed Tazio Nuvolari, who has won 87 out of the 153 races he has entered and is currently considered Europe's best driver. In a bright red Alfa-Romeo, wearing a white helmet, yellow sweater and blue denim pants, Nuvolari took the lead on the first lap. Close behind, in identical Alfa-Romeos, came his two countrymen, Count Brivio and Dr. Giuseppe Farina. After the first few laps the crack...
Asked about his rivals, 43-year-old Nuvolari had given out a statement: "I have great respect for several of them but I expect to win." A driver with such courage that he once won a race with his leg in a plaster cast, such endurance that he drove in another the day after a crack-up which doctors had said would keep him in bed for half a year, Nuvolari wears a little silver turtle on a string around his neck to remind him of the fable about the tortoise and the hare. Last week he remembered both...