{"id":498151,"date":"2019-04-22T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T13:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=77483"},"modified":"2024-12-27T01:27:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T01:27:34","slug":"nuvolari-and-the-tortoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/nuvolari-and-the-tortoise\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuvolari and the Tortoise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p>I have admired Tazio Nuvolari all my life and so has just about every other motor racing enthusiast of my generation. My friend Murray Walker, the British television Formula One commentator, often likes to say he saw the Flying Mantuan race, but I was born too late to enjoy such a spectacle. So I did the next best thing: I read everything I could about the diminutive Italian.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_706410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-706410\" style=\"width: 1337px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tazio-Nuvolari.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-706410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tazio-Nuvolari.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1337\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tazio-Nuvolari.jpg 1337w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tazio-Nuvolari-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tazio-Nuvolari-913x1024.jpg 913w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tazio-Nuvolari-89x100.jpg 89w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tazio-Nuvolari-770x864.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tazio-Nuvolari-293x329.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1337px) 100vw, 1337px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-706410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tazio Nuvolari, photographed in his bathrobe at a window of his family home in Castel D&#8217;Ario, near Mantua.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But in spite of all that reading, one thing remained a mystery to me: the gold tortoise that became Nuvolari\u2019s trademark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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