{"id":459660,"date":"2002-03-01T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2002-03-02T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=110982"},"modified":"2024-02-11T03:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T03:04:53","slug":"antonio-brivio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/antonio-brivio\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Brivio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The son of a wealthy textile manufacturer from Vercelli, near Milan, Italy, Marquis Antonio Brivio was one of the great Italian prewar racers: a gentleman driver every bit as professional as his main rivals, Tazio Nuvolari and Achille Varzi. He, like his two more famous contemporaries, was a tough and daring fighter who never gave up. 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His victory in the 1936 Mille Miglia proved this point, despite the fact that the lights of his P3-engined Alfa Romeo 2900A supercar blacked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":675650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11272,18114],"tags":[18322,452,18435,11788,16462],"class_list":["post-459660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-members-only","category-people","tag-2000s-all","tag-mille-miglia","tag-people","tag-antonio-brivio","tag-interview"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Antonio Brivio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Robert Newman brings us one of the last interviews ever conducted with the Mille Miglia winner and road racing legend.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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