Ferrari: The Italian Stallion Dec 22, 2004
Among the 50 full- and part-time drivers was the man then acknowledged as the best driver in racing, and still today one of the top drivers of all time, Tazio Nuvolari. It was quite a coup, and for Enzo it attracted an even greater popular interest and following. (Suite101.com)
Using the test tracks to make racier cars Dec 6, 2004
Over the years, the track became the site of legendary races won by Tazio Nuvolari, Juan Manuel Fangio and Jackie Stewart. But faster cars made it too dangerous. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Rossi to test for Ferrari? Oct 13, 2003
In the 1920s, for example, Tazio Nuvolari and Achille Varzi were both great riders before becoming great drivers and in the 1950s and 1960s the sport also had the likes of Jean Behra and John Surtees, the latter being only man to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels. In the 1970s Mike Hailwood became a top flight F1 driver while a few years later Johnny Cecotto's hopes of doing the same ended with a huge crash at Brands Hatch which put the Venezuelan out of F1 (GrandPrix, NY)
The cold, calculating conqueror stands in glorious isolation at ... Oct 12, 2003
For all his vast following and the extra income it generates from the sale of T-shirts and baseball caps, Schumacher will never unite the sport's followers in the way that Fangio - or Tazio Nuvolari, Jim Clark and Ayrton Senna - did, compelling a mixture of admiration and affection from all quarters. His career is too chequered for that (Guardian, UK)
