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In memory of Nivola
The article discusses the legacy of legendary Italian race car driver Tazio Nuvolari and how he is remembered through the Gran Premio Tazio Nuvolari, a race within a race at the Mille Miglia, and the Gran Premio Nuvolari, a celebrated regularity event for car collectors. The article also highlights the experiences of participants in the 2020 Nuvolari Grand Prix, including a time trial at the Autodromo di Modena and a visit to the Scuderia Alpha Tauri in Faenza. Finally, the article mentions the winners of the 2020 edition of the race, Andrea Vesco and Roberto Vesco, driving a 1929 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 SS Zagato.
Even the name of a driver can sometimes play a part in making his own legend: a daring champion who invented the controlled slide and never gave up, even when it meant racing on dirt roads, went by the name Nuvolari (roughly translated as “to lift the clouds”), something that did nothing but augment the charisma of his endeavours. His nickname, Nivola, is a testament.
This is the poster from 1954 indicating the route of the Mille Miglia dedicated to the Nuvolari Grand Prix: the winner who recorded the highest speed on the Cremona-Mantova-Brescia section.
Tazio Nuvolari, who died on 11th August 1953, was the first real star of the steering wheel in the modern sense of the term. The organizers of The Mille Miglia, Renzo Castagneto, Aymo Maggi and Giovanni Canestrini, wanted him to be remembered by their famous race and, from the following year, they diverted the final section of the race so that it passed through Mantova (Mantua), Nuvolari’s hometown, transforming the part of the route that went from Cremona to Mantua, all the way to Brescia, in a sort of race within a race called the “Gran Premio Tazio Nuvolari”.
