{"id":460773,"date":"2006-05-01T03:01:22","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T10:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=73109"},"modified":"2024-01-26T14:57:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T14:57:31","slug":"alfa-honors-vrj-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/alfa-honors-vrj-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfa Honors VRJ Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vintage Racecar\u2019s European Editor Ed McDonough and photographer Peter Collins, co-authors of the new Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 book, were presented with an award for the book on March 4 by Scuderia del Portello, the historic racing division of Alfa Romeo. At an awards ceremony at the Alfa Romeo Museum at Arese, Italy, the glass trophies were presented to the VRJ pair by Nino Vaccarella and Nanni Galli, both former Autodelta Tipo 33 drivers in the \u201960s and \u201970s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also on hand for the awards presentation to Scuderia del Portello\u2019s winning 2005 drivers were a number of Alfa Romeo senior officers and former F1 driver Clay Regazzoni, also an ex-Tipo 33 pilot.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_699544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-699544\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/n1-200605-p2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-699544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/n1-200605-p2.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Collins (left) with Nanni Galli.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/n1-200605-p2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/n1-200605-p2-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/n1-200605-p2-1024x941.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/n1-200605-p2-100x92.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/n1-200605-p2-770x707.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/n1-200605-p2-293x269.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-699544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Collins (left) with Nanni Galli.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vintage Racecar\u2019s European Editor Ed McDonough and photographer Peter Collins, co-authors of the new Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 book, were presented with an award for the book on March 4 by Scuderia del Portello, the historic racing division of Alfa Romeo. At an awards ceremony at the Alfa Romeo Museum at Arese, Italy, the glass trophies were presented to the VRJ pair by Nino Vaccarella and Nanni Galli, both former Autodelta Tipo 33 drivers in the \u201960s and \u201970s. 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