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[Don Capps]

I just like this picture which was taken at Monza during the 1938 GP d'Italia:



It is from the official Nuvolari site:
http://www.tazionuvo....it/indexuk.htm

Compare that to a modern picture of Monza!

[Don Capps]

Here is another neat picture that I have always thought was why I got interested in looking at the history of motor racing:



This is the 1933 Coppa Acerbo at Pescara.

Imagine Michael or Mika doing this! This is Nuvolari in the 1928 Coppa Acerbo...

[Keir]

Don,
What turn is Nuvolari going through in the first picture?

[Don Capps]

The circuit used that year had a left hand after you came out of Vialone and went down the Rettifilo Centro and several hundred meters before the Curvetta there was a left hand corner which took the cars to a right hand corner and then to the South Curve (which had a chicane, BTW) -- this looks that corner.

[Treeface]

What's lining the inside of the corner? Stones? Sandbags? Whatever it was I don't think you'd want to catch a wheel on it.

[Nathan]

Personally, I find this to be probably the greatest Auto Racing pics of all time...

[Don Capps]

While there are mentions from time to time about Monza being a parco, the first picture shows exactly what that means: the back straight that today is rather barren, was a tree-lined road with the corners lined with very hard things to run into... The cars were tough, but the scenery often tougher and as for the drivers...

[Ray Bell]

I think it was Stewart that once (during the safety crusade) said something like:
"The trees we want to get rid of today were mere saplings in Fangio's day..."
No saplings here!