Ferrari
Genevieve Shows Her Teeth – The 1904 ‘Sharknose’
- Racing Daydreams
- 27 September 2021
- Ferrari
- Grand Prix
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Scuderia Ferrari
There’s nothing new under the sun, so they say. Still, I imagine that Carlo Chiti and Medardo Fantuzzi must have gazed upon their new Ferrari 156 and thought it rather unique. It was certainly striking and effective in 1961, and it has proven iconic – the ‘Sharknose’. However that wind cheating snout is not without […]
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Friday 10th September 2021, Formula One will be back at Monza. Running laps, calculating, analysing. The Tifosi, returned to ‘the temple of speed’ in it’s 99th year, ramping up the atmosphere – the pressure – the utter joy of life & motor racing. Will anyone remember? Have the humility and dignity to mark the remembrance? […]
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- Racing Daydreams
- 6 April 2021
- Enzo Ferrari
- Ferrari
- history
- Mille Miglia
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Nuvolari
- Scuderia Ferrari
- writing
This is a note I made, on the train And the boy said, “Speak to me of Achille.”. The old man shifted in the bed. Something had nipped him. “What does it matter? It’s over.”. The exclamation stealing his breath, he continued at a whisper. “It is finished. Soon we’ll be dust. Like Campari, like […]
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