Tazio nuvolari biography of william

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It seemed impossible that Nuvolari could do the race, but the day before the start Enzo Ferrari offered him a 166S.

Yet, instead… Nuvolari gets his license as a motorcycle racer in 1920. His first accident occurred at this time. Nuvolari is the first to exceed an average speed of 100 km/h.The turning point dates back from 1930. The engagement was broken, and the �wedding� put off: the Auto Union engaged Achille Varzi.
During his motorcycle years, Nuvolari obtained 69 victories (36 outright and 33 class wins), the 1924 European Championship, both 1924 and 1926 Italian Championships and three International Speed records.

So Nuvolari took part in the Circuito di Alessandria - dedicated
to the memory of Bordino - honouring the died champion with a great win. However, in two years time, he became a professional racer and achieved his first wins. One day, while he was
driving, he got out of the road.
In 1933 he drove 5 different cars: Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Spyder (Passo Corto), Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Le Mans, 8C 2600 Monza, Maserati 8CM.

On his return to Europe he signed with Auto Union. He started racing in 1920 alternating motorcycles and cars. The only race he did not managed to finish was the Mille Miglia:
coming out Florence, his car run out of the road. Tazio was the fourth son of Arturo Nuvolari (1863-1938, a well off farmer) and his wife Elisa Zorzi (1864-1943, a housewife from Trento).

His greatest victory arrived in 1935 against Nazi Germany, driving an underpowered Alfa Romeo Tipo B. The Nazi government were in attendance at the Nurburgring Grand Prix that day, and with five Mercedes and four Auto Union machines competing, a German victory was all but assured; no other cars were capable of keeping pace, especially the little Alfa.

Later in the season he switched to Maserati, but it too pulled out at the end of 1934 and although Ferrari initially refused to take him back, the intervention of Mussolini led to a change of heart.In 1935 he enjoyed his greatest season against the might of the state-sponsored German Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union teams, winning the grand prix of Pau and Nive.

These were the years of his consecration as an ace of the two wheelers.

The Auto union and Tazio's coming back to race

Monza, 11 September 1938. In 1932 he won the European Championship title with two wins and three seconds, as well as victories in four non-championship grand prix.

Tazio got the motorcycle race licence in 1915, when he was 23. He bought four Bugatti Grand Prix, and then resold two of them to Achille Varzi (Tazio's tough rival; but also one of his best friends) and to Cesare Pastore. He won also the �Circuito del Pozzo� in Verona, beating the great Pietro Bordino who was to die in an accident shortly afterwwards, during a practice to race the Circuito di Alessandria.