After Alfa Romeo officially left Grand Prix racing, Nuvolari stayed on with Scuderia Ferrari who ran the Alfa Romeo cars semi-officially.

During 1933, Nuvolari left the team for Maserati after becoming frustrated with the Alfa Romeo's performance.

It was also in 1925 that Nuvolari was asked by Alfa Romeo to have a trial in their Grand Prix car.

Nuvolari ( fifth from left ), with other Alfa Romeo drivers and Enzo Ferrari.

Coppa Consuma 1930, Tazio Nuvolari driving Alfa Romeo 6C | Alfa Romeo 6C1750GS.

After drawing ninth place on the grid at the Italian Grand Prix, Nuvolari started the race in an Alfa Romeo shared with Baconin Borzacchini.

The season was the only one in which Nuvolari regularly had one of the fastest cars, the Alfa Romeo P3.

Alfa Romeo announced that for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Nuvolari would be competing in a team with Raymond Sommer.

Nuvolari driving Alfa Romeo P3 at the 1935 Grand Prix de Pau.

In this year, Nuvolari scored his most impressive victory, thought by many to be the greatest victory in car racing of all times, when at the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, driving an old Alfa Romeo P3 ( 3167 cc, compressor, 265 hp ) versus the dominant, all conquering home team's cars of five Mercedes-Benz W25 ( 3990 cm³, 8C, compressor,, driven by Caracciola, Fagioli, Hermann Lang, Manfred von Brauchitsch and Geyer ) and four Auto Union Tipo B ( 4950 cc, 16C, compressor,, driven by Bernd Rosemeyer, Varzi, Hans Stuck and Paul Pietsch ).

Nuvolari stayed with Alfa Romeo despite becoming increasingly frustrated with the poor build quality of their racing cars.

Although Nuvolari started 1938 as an Alfa Romeo driver, a split fuel tank in the first race of the season at Pau was enough for him to walk out on the team, critical of the poor workmanship that was exhibited.

Nuvolari has had four cars named after him-the Cisitalia 202 spider " Nuvolari ", the Alfa Romeo Nuvola, the EAM Nuvolari S1, and the Audi Nuvolari Quattro.

Drivers Enzo Ferrari ( 1st from left ), Tazio Nuvolari ( 4th ) and Achille Varzi ( 6th ) of Alfa Romeo with Alfa Romeo Managing Director Prospero Gianferrari ( 3rd ) at Colle Maddalena

After a one year pause the race was back in 1935 with Tazio Nuvolari dominating in an Alfa Romeo P3 entered by Scuderia Ferrari.

The winner is Tazio Nuvolari ( Italy ) driving an Alfa Romeo 8C2300 Monza in 3: 32: 25. 3.

The winner is Tazio Nuvolari ( Italy ) driving an Alfa Romeo 8C2600 Tipo B.

The winner is Tazio Nuvolari ( Italy ) driving an Alfa Romeo 8C2600 Tipo B.

* European Championship – Tazio Nuvolari ( Italy ) driving an Alfa Romeo 8C2600 Tipo B.

At the 1947 Mille Miglia, the Cistitalia spider really proved itself by leading most of the race in capable hands of Tazio Nuvolari.

Nuvolari also won the Nations Grand Prix four times between 1925 and 1928 and the Lario Circuit race five times between 1925 and 1929, all in the 350 cc class and each time on a Bianchi motorcycle.

In 1930, Nuvolari won his first RAC Tourist Trophy ( he won one more time in 1933 ).

The following year, he won the 24 hours of Le Mans, despite having to drive over 20 hours solo after his teammate Luigi Chinetti retired ill. During the 1930s, Sommer was to dominate the French endurance classic, winning again in 1933 driving an Alfa Romeo alongside Tazio Nuvolari.

Tazio Nuvolari won the 1930 Mille Miglia in an Alfa Romeo.

In the thirties, Italian Hall of Fame driver, Tazio Nuvolari won this race five times, more than any other driver.

After a sensational debut season, Nuvolari and Campari combined to win their first Italian Grand Prix, a victory that made them national heroes for taking the championship from the French who had won it for the past three years.

Although he won the Circuito di Avellino, Baconin Borzacchini's season was dogged by both bad luck and the brilliance of Nuvolari.

In June 1928 he won the Grand Prix of Mugello driving a Talbot and finished second in the Coppa Acerbo in August then that same month he won his fourth Coppa Montenero, beating both Tazio Nuvolari and Giuseppe Campari.

While the racing version of the 8C 2300 Spider, driven by Tazio Nuvolari won the 1931 and 1932 Targa Florio race in Sicily, the 1931 Italian Grand Prix victory at Monza gave the " Monza " name to the twin seater GP car, a shortened version of the Spider.

Tazio Nuvolari won the 1935 German GP at the Nürburgring at the wheel of a 3. 2 L Tipo B against the more powerful Silver Arrows from Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union.

His most famous loss was the 1935 German Grand Prix, when a tire blew while he was leading the last lap, handing victory to Tazio Nuvolari in an Alfa Romeo in one of the latter's most famous victories-the only time during the reign of the Silver Arrows when a Grand Prix was won by a car other than a Mercedes or Auto Union.

Between 1935 and 1937 Auto Union cars won 25 races, driven by Ernst von Delius, Tazio Nuvolari, Bernd Rosemeyer, Hans Stuck and Achille Varzi.

Of the more important versions, the SMM Nuvolari Spider was built and named after a class victory at the 1947 Mille Miglia.

Nuvolari started to shout in the first curve and wouldn't stop until the last one.

The story, first publicized in Alfred Neubauer's 1958 book Speed Was My Life ( Männer, Frauen und Motoren: Die Erinnerungen des Mercedes-Rennleiters ), alleged that Tazio Nuvolari, Achille Varzi and Baconin Borzacchini, along with their respective ticket holders, conspired to decide the outcome of the race in order to split some seven and a half million lire together.

In the 1952 Le Mans race, when only 17 of the 58 starters finished, the entry driven by Leslie Johnson — a driver with the flair of Nuvolari, said Louis Chiron — and motoring journalist Tommy Wisdom took third overall behind two factory-entered Mercedes-Benz 300SLs ; also first in class, ahead of Chinetti's Ferrari, and second in the Rudge-Whitworth Cup for the best performance over two consecutive years.

Some of the famous first owners include Baroness Maud Thyssen of the Thyssen family, the owner of the aircraft and now scooter company Piaggio Andrea Piaggio, Raymond Sommer, and Tazio Nuvolari.

The race saw Achille Varzi and Tazio Nuvolari exchange the lead many times before being settled in Varzi's favour on the final lap when Nuvolari's car caught fire.

The relationship with Ferrari turned sour during 1937, and Nuvolari raced an Auto Union as a one-off in the Swiss Grand Prix that year before agreeing to race for them for the 1938 season.

Nuvolari then teamed up with Giuseppe Campari and the pair took the race win, although Nuvolari could not receive the championship points from it.

His mechanic Mabelli said about this race: " Before the start, Nuvolari told me to go down on the floor of the car every time he shouts, which was a signal that he went to a curve too fast and that we need to decrease the car ´ s center of mass.

Some of the facts in Neubauer's version do not hold true with documented records of events, which point to Nuvolari, Varzi and Borzacchini agreeing to pool the prize money should one of them win, as opposed to Neubauer's claims of race fixing.

Sommer argued that he would be drive the majority of the race as he was more familiar with the circuit and Nuvolari would likely break the car.

The race itself saw Sommer and Nuvolari take a two lap lead before their fuel tank developed a hole, which was plugged by chewing gum whilst in the pits.

Nuvolari drove from then until the end of the race, breaking the lap record nine times and winning the race by approximately 400 yards ( 366 m ).

Whilst racing at Alessandria in the Circuito di Pietro Bordino race, Nuvolari crashed whilst avoiding Carlo Felice Trossi's stricken car.

In the 1937 Donington Grand Prix and 1938 Donington Grand Prix, the race winners were respectively Bernd Rosemeyer and Tazio Nuvolari, both in Auto Union ' Silver Arrows.

Having started after his team-mate and rival Achille Varzi, Nuvolari was comfortably leading the race but was still behind Varzi ( holder of provisional second position ) on the road.

Over the next several years, as the only female on the Grand Prix circuit, Nice continued to race Bugattis and Alfa Romeos against the greatest drivers of the day including Tazio Nuvolari, Robert Benoist, Rudolf Caracciola, Louis Chiron, Bernd Rosemeyer, Luigi Fagioli, and Jean-Pierre Wimille, among others.

Also, Budrio is the hometown of Franco Zagari, the automobile historian and photographer who authored many books on the history of Ferrari, Maserati, Osca, Stanguellini, Bugatti and Mercedes and the great Italian race car driver Tazio Nuvolari.