Monza 1933: the Campari / Borzacchini tragedy

Luigi Fagioli wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza for the Scuderia Ferrari in an Alfa Romeo P3, ahead of Tazio Nuvolari in a Maserati. In the second race of the day, the Monza Grand Prix, which only used the high speed oval part of the course, the great Giuseppe Campari started his last race before his planned retirement. In the south curve his Alfa hit the rival car of Borzacchini sending both drivers off the track in a crash that took both their lives.

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• Monza
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• Borzacchini
• Alfa
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• Fagioli
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• Maserati
• Italy
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• 1933

[olarcial]

Running at almost 300 km/h on those things in those kind of tracks was nearly suicidal. Drivers were very brave on those days. Well they were till the mid 1990.

[mutterschied]

Inmense respect.

[00Mancsfinest00]

@Trulyloyale italy hasnt done that much the term "garage holder" makes me think youve read about what enzo said about the english teams but that was 50 years ago ,you need enlightening,sure musso,campari,bandini,both ascari's etc were good and should be respected,but you are wrong in so many otherways,u can tell your italian

[tommykl]

@Trulyloyale McLaren may not have made their own engines, but the Mercedes engines are actually made by Ilmor, based in Northamptonshire. Also, BRM may or may not have made their own chassis and engines.

[2206411411]

I see lots of bitching in the comments and very little respect. ALL of the countries involved in Formula 1 have done amazing things and ALL have done stupid things. Even the nations that have raced but never won in F1 are deserving of respect, not contempt. Contempt of another is the mark of one who has already lost. F1 is for the international, leave nationalism for the weak.

[Trulyloyale]

And Lotus and Williams teams ( and no other brit team else ) made some innovations only in the aerodynamics , but nothing more that that 'cos they NEVER made or designed an engine or any part else of their F1 cars , just read and learn about .

Out of Barnard and recently Brawn, the british enginerrs and technicians showed they were nothing more than garage holders , or in the case of McLaren

dirty cheaters, incapable faggots and shameless robbers , which is all innovations they're good at !

[Trulyloyale]

of shameless cheaters, incapable robbers and dirty thieves !!!

McLaren is planning to acquire a former BMW engines plants in 2013 just because there's no factory, department or little office that can project, make and develop any engine in england and great britain, not even that one of a city car !!!

The best engines x race cars and sports cars ? They're designed , made and tested here in Italy also for the GT Mercedes & BMW cars, in Emilia and Piemonte regions.

[Trulyloyale]

just aside of the wind tunnel !!

As x the engines, try harder 'cos you really made us all laugh by telling the ridiculous lie and bs that the brittons who didn't have made or projected a F1 engine since the 70s design the engines for Mercedes !!! XDDDD

Read and learn , ridiculous and clueless jackass : McLaren NEVER build up an engine, x all their life they have bought engines from outer teams or factories along with other mech pieces and just assembled it all in Woking, in the home

[Trulyloyale]

at least 30 years ....) . Ferrari put their R&D in Surrey county only for the aerodynamics , only because their chief of aerodynamic department Barnard was a pathetic brit homeguy who didn't want to move his ass far from his own room , and only from 1992 to 1996 , all other components and parts of cars were projected, made, tested and implemented by Ferrari's technicians, engineers and spec. mechanics ( the best in the world ) in the only one R&D of Ferrari , which is in Maranello

[Trulyloyale]

Majority of F1 teams in the 60s were british , that's right, and most of them were poor crap, nothing more and nothing else, so they really apported nothing to F1 and they're of none importance x the history of this sport .

Ferrari had a R&D department in England in the 80s only in your bizarre dreams and in the senseless bs you build on in ur efforts of overrating the inept and incapable british " engineers " and " garage assemblers " ( there are no british manufacturers of sports cars since

[Trulyloyale]

@McLarenMercedes always repeating your same ridiculous & boring stuff of ever only to show once again how clueless you are of motors, cars and F1 ......!! ;-)

Once again I'll correct the many bs inside your asinine comment : when some fellows use to say that F1 is italian, they mean that Italian teams founded and builded up the World Championship . Think at Ferrari which is the only one team that has always partecipated to ALL F1 world championships since the 1st historical race in 1951 .

[madmaxf1]

@McLarenMercedes british teams were assemblers not constructors!! look at ur nick/team is half british half german..not pure british!! while Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati,etc etc. are pure constructors!! Ferrari had a dept in england only because Barnard didnt wanna move to Italy thats why!! England destroied F1 with his greediness for money that made this wonderful sport a merry go round just because of money monkey business ehh Bernie!! the passion is in Italy the greediness is in UK nuffsaid