Rudolf Caracciola Biography Rudolf Caracciola was born in the town of Remagen, Germany on January 30, 1901 the son of...
Clemente Biondetti Biography Born in Buddusò, Sardinia, into a working class family with Tuscan father and Venetian mother who found...
Baconin Borzacchini Biography Baconin Francesco Domenico Borzacchini, born in Terni, Italy on September 29, 1898 was named by his parents after a Russian anarchist, Mikhail Bakunin. At the age of 14, be began work in a garage as a mechanic. After serving in the Army during WW1, he began racing...
Alberto Ascari intrigues me – while I can’t claim to know a great deal about him. Like so many of...
Notable Mille Miglia Drivers – The History In our ongoing series on the History of the Mille Miglia, we take...
Giannino Marzotto Biography He was born at Valdagno on 13 April 1928, the son of the king of the Italian wool industry, Count Gaetano Marzotto. Soon after his 20th birthday he entered his father’s Lancia Aprilia in the Giro di Sicilia and came in second in his class. In 1950...
Eugenio Castellotti Biography Eugenio Castellotti was born in Milan but grew up in Lodi. When he was still only 20...
Giannino Marzotto Biography He was born at Valdagno on 13 April 1928, the son of the king of the Italian...
Luigi Villoresi Biography Luigi Villoresi was born in Milan, Italy on May 16th, 1909. Nicknamed “Gigi” he came from a prosperous family and began competing in local rallies at the age of twenty-two with a Lancia Lambda and a few years later acquired a Fiat Balilla, which was very popular...
Carlo Pintacuda Biography Born in September 18, 1900, Florence, Italy Pintacuda held a steering wheel for the first time at...
Ferdinando Minoia Biography Ferdinando Minoia was born in Milan on June 2, 1884. Known by his friends as Nando, he...
Giuseppe Campari Biography Born Cavaliere Giuseppe Campari near the city of Lodi southwest of Milan, as a teenager he went to work for the Alfa automobile company. Campari’s job eventually involved test driving factory cars and his skills and interest led to his participation in competitive hillclimbing events. In 1914...
Stirling Moss Biography In the United States when you hear the name Mario Andretti the first image that comes to...
Piero Taruffi Biography Piero Taruffi was born in Rome, Italy on October 10th, 1906. Like many of his peers Taruffi...
Antonio Ascari Biography Antonio Ascari was born on the 15th of September 1988 in Bonferraro, Italy, the son of a corn dealer and one of three brothers and a sister. Link many young men his age he loved machinery and driving and after a spell at maintaining agricultural machines he...
Antonio Brivio Biography Born in Biella, Italy to an aristocratic family on the 27th of December 1905 the Marchese “Tonino”...