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1935-05-26 – Alfa/Ferrari Bimitore 6300 (9) – Tazio Nuvolari – Corsa dell AVUS – 6
The Chronicle | Results STORY OF THE DAY: Two Engines, One Unruly Experiment Tazio Nuvolari finished sixth in the 1935 AVUS race with Scuderia Ferrari’s number 9 Alfa/Ferrari Bimotore 6300. The Formula Libre contest was run in heats on Berlin’s ultra-fast circuit, where the twin-engined car had been created to oppose the superior…
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1932-05-08 – Alfa 8C 2300 Monza (10) – Tazio Nuvolari – Targa Florio – 1
The Chronicle | Results STORY OF THE DAY: Nuvolari Commands the Madonie Tazio Nuvolari won the 23rd Targa Florio in Scuderia Ferrari’s number 10 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza. The race covered eight laps and 576 kilometres of Sicily’s 72-kilometre Piccolo Circuito delle Madonie. Nuvolari completed the distance in 7 hours 15 minutes…
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1933-03-26 – Alfa 8C 2600 Monza (28) – Tazio Nuvolari – GP Tunisia – 1
The Chronicle | Results STORY OF THE DAY: Nuvolari Wins the Carthage Sprint to the Line Tazio Nuvolari won the 1933 Tunis Grand Prix on the Carthage road circuit in Scuderia Ferrari’s number 28 Alfa Romeo 8C 2600 Monza. After 37 laps, he defeated teammate Baconin Borzacchini by only two-tenths of a second,…
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1935-07-28 – Alfa P3 3800 saic (12) – Tazio Nuvolari – GP Germania – 1
The Chronicle | Results STORY OF THE DAY: Nuvolari Defeats the Silver Arrows at Home Tazio Nuvolari won the 1935 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring in Scuderia Ferrari’s number 12 Alfa Romeo P3. Over 22 laps and more than 500 kilometres, he defeated the factory Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union teams on their…
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1936-06-21 – Alfa 8C (24) – Tazio Nuvolari – GP Ungheria – 1
The Chronicle | Results STORY OF THE DAY: Nuvolari Wins Budapest’s First Grand Prix Tazio Nuvolari won the inaugural Hungarian Grand Prix on 21 June 1936 in Scuderia Ferrari’s number 24 Alfa Romeo 8C-35. The race covered 50 laps of the twisting Népliget park circuit in Budapest, and Nuvolari finished 14.2 seconds ahead…
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1937-07-25 – Alfa 12C (22) – Tazio Nuvolari – GP Germania Nurburgting – R
The Chronicle | Results STORY OF THE DAY: Nuvolari Salvages Fourth at the Nürburgring Tazio Nuvolari drove Scuderia Ferrari’s number 22 Alfa Romeo 12C-36 to fourth place in the 1937 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring. He completed all 22 laps, finishing 4 minutes 3.9 seconds behind Rudolf Caracciola’s winning Mercedes-Benz W125 and…
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1930-06-15 – Alfa P2 (36) – Tazio Nuvolari – Trieste-Opicina – 1
Results STORY OF THE DAY: Nuvolari Gives Scuderia Ferrari Its First Victory On 15 June 1930, Tazio Nuvolari drove the number 36 Alfa Romeo P2 to the fastest time in the Trieste–Opicina hill climb. He covered the 9.5-kilometre course in 5 minutes 59.4 seconds, averaging slightly more than 95 km/h and establishing a new record.…
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1930-06-29 – Alfa P2 (14) – Tazio Nuvolari – Cuneo-Colle della Maddalena – 1
Results STORY OF THE DAY: A Record Charge to the Maddalena Pass Tazio Nuvolari won the Cuneo–Colle della Maddalena hill climb on 29 June 1930 in the number 14 Alfa Romeo P2. The exceptionally long course ran for approximately 66.5 kilometres from Cuneo toward the Alpine pass, and Nuvolari completed it in about 38 minutes…
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1930-10-12 – Alfa 8C 2300 (42) – Tazio Nuvolari – Coppa della Consuma – 1
Results STORY OF THE DAY: Two Consuma Climbs Conflated in One Heading The surviving record does not support the date, model and result combined in this title. At the Coppa della Consuma on 12 October 1930, number 42 Tazio Nuvolari drove an Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Gran Sport and finished second to Clemente Biondetti’s Bugatti.…
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1931-04-25 – Alfa 8C 2300 (26) – Tazio Nuvolari – Circuito Bordino Alexandria – R
Results STORY OF THE DAY: A New Alfa’s Fierce but Fragile Challenge The Circuito di Alessandria, also known as the Circuito Pietro Bordino, was raced on 26 April 1931, after the date recorded in the title. Tazio Nuvolari started tenth in Scuderia Ferrari’s new number 26 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 and immediately contested the lead…