Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/61905to listen full audiobooks. Title: Superveloce Author: Peter Grimsdale Narrator: Peter Grimsdale Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins Release date: 06-05-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Motor Sports Publisher's Summary: In 1950, at the first Formula One Grand Prix in Britain after World War II, 150,000 spectators, including the royal family, watch in dismay as Italy's Alfa Romeos take the first three places – ahead of seven more Italian Maseratis. In Paris, at the Salon d'Auto, Pininfarina's breathtakingly stylish Lancias, driven form Turin by the designer and his son, are denied entry. Parked outside, they nevertheless steal the show. How can it be that Italy, pummelled into submission by Allied bombs, is already setting new standards of speed and style that leave the rest of the world for dust?

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