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Orazio Satta Puliga and Giuseppe Busso, who headed the Alfa Romeo design team, were studying the creation of a new car to compete in the Sports Prototype Championships and the hillclimbs. The project was based on two principles: an aeronautical-inspired “H” tubular frame, a concept subsequently taken up by the 33, and the driving position mounted as far back as possible, an idea suggested in the 1950s by the famous tester and driver Consalvo Sanesi. According to him, this solution would have given the driver more feeling and a better understanding of the behaviour of the car.

In Alfa there were, as is often the case in companies, two souls: those who wanted to return to racing and those who opposed it. The solution was offered by Carlo Chiti, the famous “big-engineer” (for his size) who had abruptly left Ferrari after winning the 1961 Formula 1 World Championship, and who created Autodelta. An apparently private enterprise, which in reality was supported and later acquired by Alfa Romeo.