{"id":40377,"date":"2015-04-20T13:49:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T12:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=40377"},"modified":"2022-06-22T16:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T15:05:25","slug":"tazio-nuvolari-the-man-who-knew-no-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/tazio-nuvolari-the-man-who-knew-no-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Tazio Nuvolari: the man who knew no fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nuvolari&#8217;s racing record speaks for itself. Highlights: 26 Grands Prix. 2 Targo Florio. 2 Mille Miglia. 2 Le Mans 24 Hours. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But this tip of a very large iceberg, though, doesn&#8217;t really get across how important this maestro of European motorsport was to Italy during the interwar years.<\/p>\n<p>His legend begins with ridiculous feats of derring do in motorcycle racing. At Monza, for example so the story goes, he rode to victory on a Bianchi shortly after breaking both legs in practice. He demanded to be carried onto and off of the bike. He repeated this feat in a car in 1934 too &#8211; having the clutch controls of his Maserati modified so he could use his one good leg to disengage the drive.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tazio-nuvolari.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tazio-nuvolari.jpg\" alt=\"tazio-nuvolari\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>He gained one of his most famous victories at N\u00fcrburgring in 1935. At a time when Europe was in the thrall of the new technologies pioneered by the Nazi-funded Mercedes and Auto-Union teams, he raced an obsolete Alfa like a man possessed, forcing the leading car, a Mercedes, to blow a tire. Nuvolari cruised to a delicious away victory &#8211; with the hierarchy of the Nazi party looking on dejectedly.<\/p>\n<p>This prescient echo of Jesse Owens&#8217;s iconoclastic victories at the Berlin Olympics of 1936 is one reason that Nuvolari came to represent Italy&#8217;s idea of itself. Devil may care. Dashing. Dogged. Determined. And of course, stylish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just look at the way the maestro wore his racing clobber. <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nuvolari.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nuvolari.jpg\" alt=\"Nuvolari\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuvolari was the epitome of Italian derring-do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,1780],"tags":[419,1186,2641,1096,2640],"class_list":["post-40377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-people","tag-drivers","tag-endurance-racing","tag-ex-racers","tag-people-1","tag-racers"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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