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Felice Nazzaro

Robert Newman
On his way to winning the 1907 Grand Prix of France at Dieppe, Nazzaro casts an anxious glance toward his Fiat’s chain drive.

Felice Nazzaro had brains as well as a heavy right foot and he used them well to work his way up from the shop floor to motor racing stardom in a career that spanned three decades. His favorite technique was to hang back and let the leaders burn themselves or their cars out and then pounce.

Nazzaro won three of the eight 1907 Grands Prix driving a Fiat, but in 1908 he and this new Fiat could only manage one win, at Bologna’s Coppa Florio.

That’s how he won the 1907 world motor racing grand slam, the Targa Florio, Germany’s Kaiserpreis and the French Grand Prix, all run under different regulations. Fifteen years, a world war and a great deal of technological progress later he won the GP of France again, an incredible achievement.

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