The Alfetta tech that beat Ferrari: Alfa Romeo 158/159
From 1946 to 1951 – for an entire generation of fans – Alfa Romeo’s works Grand Prix car – the immortal ‘Alfetta’ – set the gold standard. Through that period…
Two corners later used to be another photographers’ dream BrOnchen. It means ‘Little Bridge’, although it was in fact a humpback bridge where we’d normally do a hop in the air, come back to earth and drive on until 1969 when Jo and I arrived in our ‘Flounders’ which took off until they were almost vertical. We hit the ground with the rear jacking points before falling forward onto the wheels. Needless to say we reverted to the older, rounder car for the race.