{"id":492344,"date":"2012-05-01T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=28222"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:08:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:08:14","slug":"felice-nazzaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/felice-nazzaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Felice Nazzaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_539788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539788\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/HE201205-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-539788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/HE201205-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/HE201205-p1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/HE201205-p1-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/HE201205-p1-1024x610.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/HE201205-p1-100x60.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/HE201205-p1-770x458.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/HE201205-p1-293x174.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-539788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">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\u2019s Coppa Florio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That\u2019s how he won the 1907 world motor racing grand slam, the Targa Florio, Germany\u2019s Kaiserpreis and the French Grand Prix, all run under different regulations. 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Nazzaro won three of the eight 1907 Grands Prix driving a Fiat, but in 1908 he and this new Fiat could only manage one 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