Brilli-Peri (above) and in the Alfa P2, chased by Torchy in the Delage, at Montlhery 1925

SOURCES

BOOKS

Peter Ackroyd: Venice: Pure City

Corrado Belci: Libro Della Bora

Clyde Brolin: Overdrive: Formula 1 in the Zone

Giovanni Canestrini: Uomini e Motori, Una Vita Con Le Corse, Mille Miglia

Gianfranco Capra: Achille Varzi: Mito e Leggenda

Rudolf Caracciola: A Racing Car Driver’s World

William Court: Grand Prix Requiem

Robert Daley: The Cruel Sport, &, Cars at Speed

Gerald Donaldson: Fangio: The Life Behind the Legend

Mario Donnini: Nuvolari: Il Rombo Del Cigno

René Dreyfus & Beverly Rae Kimes: My Two Lives: Race Driver to Restaurateur

George Eyston & Barré Lyndon: Motor Racing and Record Breaking

Enzo Ferrari: Piloti, che gente …

John Foot: Winning at all Costs

Christopher Hilton: Inside the Mind of the Grand Prix Driver, &, Hitler’s Grands Prix in England, &, Nuvolari, &, Grand Prix Century

Denis Jenkinson: The Racing Driver

Charles Jennings: Burning Rubber: The Extraordinary Story of Formula One

Karl Ludvigsen: Juan Manuel Fangio

Giovanni Lurani: Nuvolari, &, Racing around the World

Maurizio Messori: Pericoloso Rallentare

Peter Miller: Conte Maggi’s Mille Miglia

Alfred Neubauer: Speed was my Life

Chris Nixon: Racing the Silver Arrows

William F. Nolan: Men of Thunder

Doug Nye: Motor Racing

Anthony Pritchard: Silver Arrows in Camera, &, Mille Miglia, &, Historic Motor Racing, &, Ferrari: Men from Maranello, &, The World Champions

Eberhard Reuss: Hitler’s Motor Racing Battles

Nigel Roebuck: Grand Prix Greats

Elly Beinhorn Rosemeyer and Chris Nixon: Rosemeyer!

Hans Ruesch: The Racer

Massimo Russo: Tazio Nuvolari

Aldo Santini: Nuvolari

Joe Saward: Grand Prix Saboteurs

Miranda Seymour: The Bugatti Queen

Phil Shirley: Deadly Obsession

Norman Smith: Case History

Peter Stevenson: Driving Forces

Jackie Stewart & Peter Manso: Faster!

Piero Taruffi: The Technique of Motor Racing, &, Works Driver

Giorgio Terruzzi, Una Curva Cieca, Varzi: L’ombra oscura di Nuvolari

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Joseph H. Wherry: The Alfa Romeo Story

Richard Williams: Enzo Ferrari, The Last Road Race

MAGAZINES

Donatella Biffignandi: La Manovella November 2004

Patrick O’Brien: Motor Sport Magazine March 2009

Various: Cosmos September 1933

Aldo Zana: Auto d’Epoca April 2001, &, July-August 2007, &, February 2008, &, October 2002,

Aldo Zana: Ruoteclassiche April 2003, June 2003, October 2003, May 2004,

WEBSITES

Golden Era of Grand Prix Racing: http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/

Moto Club Achille Varzi Galliate: http://www.achillevarzi.org/