{"id":460311,"date":"2004-10-01T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=97421"},"modified":"2024-02-16T10:57:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T10:57:40","slug":"connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My racing goes back to before the war when I was driving mainly Maseratis. In 1937, I did quite a few races, mostly voiturette races for 1.5-liter cars, and that year I started at Posillipo in Naples with my Maserati 4CM, I think I finished about 6th, but that race was won by Count Trossi, and as a young man he had become president of Scuderia Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari liked to have the \u2018aristocrats\u2019 in his team, like Count Brivio. But Trossi was later a driver for Alfa Romeo, and when I think back, it was helpful to know those people.<\/p>\n

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Baron Emanuel ‘Toulo’ de Graffenreid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Georges Filipinetti was driving there too, and he then started an important team and had close connections with Enzo Ferrari, like Jacques Swaters did in Belgium with Ecurie Franchorchamps. A lot of people met back in those days before there was any such thing as a Ferrari. There were important drivers in those races\u2026Cortese, Luigi Villoresi, and Count Lurani who also was a good writer and organizer. That year I went to do what they called the \u2018Light Car Race\u2019 in the Isle of Man, which was really a voiturette race. I was driving in the team of John du Puy, and there I met the English drivers\u2026Raymond Mays, Reg Parnell, Arthur Dobson. Prince Bira came to that race, and so did Villoresi. Bira drove a Delage and won. I think I finished in my usual place (6th). John du Puy was a school friend of mine and we created a team together, almost always with Maseratis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n