May 2006

Alfa Romeo Tipo 33

By Peter Collins & Ed McDonough

Of all the postwar, long-distance, sports racing prototypes, none has a longer or more convoluted history than the famed Alfa Romeo Tipo 33s. The brainchild of Alfa’s Satta, Busso and Carlo Chiti, in the mid-1960s, the Tipo 33 raced in various guises on the international scene for over a decade, chalking up two Manufacturer’s Championships in 1975 and 1977.