Tag Archives: Felice Bonetto
Felice Bonetto at Bari
We love this portrait of the Italian driver Felice Bonetto, taken before the Bari Grand Prix for F2 cars which was held on June 12, 1949. Bari is a city on the southern part of Italy’s Adriatic coast and the circuit was a temporary street circuit which ran along the sea coast, around the western […]
Mille Miglia Preparation
This is the scene in Ferrari’s preparation area near Brescia on April 23, 1949 the day before these cars will start the Mille Miglia. Grouped here are three of the new 166MM barchettas with Touring bodywork (nos. 624, 641 and 642) and an earlier 166 Spider Corsa (n. 630). All these cars were team cars […]
Archivio Corrado Millanta®
We have recently acquired the Archivio Corrado Millanta® from the family of Corrado Millanta who died in December 1983 at the age of 74. Millanta had a professional background in industrial design and engineering but loved photography. He developed close friendships with automotive designers, engineers and drivers which gave him unusual access to racing […]
The End of the Alfettas
The 1951 British Grand Prix took place at Silverstone on July 14. It became one of the most important grand prix races of the decade because it was the first time that a Ferrari had soundly defeated the all-conquering Alfa Romeos which had ruled grand prix racing ever since the war. The F1 engine formula then offered […]
Klemantaski Collection 