The Coppa Acerbo was one of the oldest and most renowned motor racing circuits in the world. Drivers who have become legendary raced on the 25-kilometre circuit. The first winner, in 1924, in an Alfa Romeo was a certain Enzo Ferrari.
Since then other exciting editions and the attention of the whole world for a race that, twenty years ahead of Formula 1, had unleashed the passion of millions of people and celebrated the exploits of extraordinary four-wheel heroes like Varzi, Nuvolari, Campari, Rosemeyer, Fangio and many others. The last edition was run in 1961, and ironically it was won by a Ferrari, driven by Lorenzo Bandini and Giorgio Scarlatti.
The Coppa Acerbo was an ideal testing ground for the rising Italian automobile industry, because its circuit was one of the first examples of perfect organisation; a white track where drivers challenged each other at great speed, on many difficult curves, to become legends.
The present volume was edited by Federico Valeriani - former president of the A.S.C.A. (Associazione Storico Culturale Automobilistica) - who in 30 years has collected with patient and careful research thousands of documents that have told the story of this pioneering race from the first to the last edition.
Crucial in this work are the documents:
- Thousands of unpublished images and advertising illustrations (also signed by international graphic and poster designers like Vittorio Grassi and Marcello Dudovich).
- Journalistic accounts by the best-known sports reporters from major Italian and international magazines, who followed the races on the Coppa Acerbo circuit every year.
- Direct testimony, in the preface, of those who experienced those races first hand, like Enzo Ferrari, who has always remembered this race as the one that launched him on the road to motor racing.
Coppa Acerbo Circuito internazionale degli Abruzzi is a limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies, bearing the SIAE stamp and signed by the author.
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