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Alfa Berlina 1300, Italian Style

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All Black and White images © Alfa Romeo Automobilismo Storico, Centro Documentazione (Arese, Milano)

This is the third in our series of articles about the 1955-1961 Alfa Giulietta Berlina.

For Italy, the post war era was full of significant changes that would last more than a decade; these were the years of the Cold War as opposed to the dream of a united Europe; the launching of the first atomic-powered submarine; the Warsaw Pact; the birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll; Sputnik from the east and Barbie dolls from the west; the success of the Beatles and the death of Kennedy that signaled the end of an era.
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Peugeot Wins at Imola! In English and Italian

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By Roberto Motta
Photos by: Media Audi, Peugeot Media, DPPI, Ferrari and Porsche Werk-Media photo

After the unfortunate experience in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Peugeot is back. Having resolved all the problems the team triumphed at the Circuit Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola 6 hours on July 3rd. [Read more…] about Peugeot Wins at Imola! In English and Italian

This Week, of Interest: Win a Wyss Warhol

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WYSS GOES WARHOL (ESQUE)

Our frequent contributor, scribe/artist Wallace Wyss announced his newest illustration trend–a la Warhol. “I really didn’t think of making a tribute to Andy,” Wyss says, “but when I had to change the color a few times on the printing press for my illustration of one car, I thought , why not show the variations? Maybe that’s how Andy thought of it.”

Wyss will award one signed print to the first person who posts a comment below identifying the make and model of the car.

Those who are planning on attending the Concorso Italiano on August 19th should find a booth where Wyss will be displaying the tribute to Andy print, plus a few other design rendering prints in the original designer’s styles along with his regular full color depictions of Italy’s greatest sports cars. Those who won’t make Monterey can find his work on www.albaco.com Also, interested parties can write photojournalistpro@hotmail.com

Winner of last week’s contest

Last week’s winner of a copy of McQueen’s Machines was Barry Morgan, who almost instantly bought several raffle tickets in support of the Waktins Glen IMRRC. Thanks Barry!

This week’s articles
*Oosthoek’s book on sports car racing in the south is reviewed
*What’s in Your Driveway? Alfa 2600 Zagato
*Premium Article Update: See them all!
*Snooze Alert: Grand Prix of Europe

What’s in Your Driveway?: Zagato’s Alfa Romeo 2600

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2600 Alfa Zagato in 1970. Credit VeloceToday.com

By Pete Vack

“It looks like a giant praying mantis about to leap.” Kyle Fleming’s assessment of the Alfa 2600 Zagato, was, if not overly kind, at least somewhat accurate. Zagato was never known to be anything but bold about its designs, and the Zagato was big, bold and eye catching. Fleming, used to dealing in Maseratis and Ferraris, couldn’t quite put the Alfa Zagato into focus. Such was the attraction of Zagato. The Big Z was different, rare and unusual at a time and place when the U.S. was a veritable candy store, full of rare and unusual cars at bargain basement prices.
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Premium Articles Update

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Below is a list of all of our Premium and Freemium features.
Scroll down for links and full description of each article.

To access a Premium article, you must sign up to our Premium Service. However, we also offer several great in depth articles that are Freemium (Free to everyone), as examples of what you’ll get with our Premium Service.
Premium Service articles include:
*Alfa Berlina Series
*OSCA 1600GT Series
*Giovanni Savonuzzi Series

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European Grand Prix

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Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber

By Erik Nielsen
Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media

Snooze Fest

Seems like this author took a bit of a beating for an editing oversight that caused Jenson Button fans to cry foul over a win at Montreal when “their” driver won. I’m happy to report that we’ve returned to our regularly scheduled programming and Sebastian Vettel is once again the winner of a grand prix. We’ve only seen this happen six times this year already. Happy?
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This Week, of Interest: Win “McQueen’s Machines”

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Proceeds of Watkins Glen F1 book to benefit IMRRC

Award-winning historian Michael Argetsinger’s latest book, “Formula One at Watkins Glen: 20 Years of the United States Grand Prix, 1961-1980”, is a special limited edition book and advance orders are now being taken at only $49.95 each. It’s a great price for this book with over 250 color and B&W images. But even more important, Michael and his publisher, David Bull, are donating ALL the proceeds from the sale of the book to the International Motor Racing and Research Center in Watkins Glen.
Orders can be telephoned to the Center at (607) 535-9044 and ask for Jon McKnight.

Enter Raffle and win copy of McQueen’s Machines!

Again this year the IMRRC is offering car for raffle, this year a 1967 Mustang Steve McQueen “Bullitt” replica valued at over $72,000. Tickets are $60 each or two for $100 and can be purchased by calling Jon McKnight at (607) 535-9044.

To help kick this off, the first VeloceToday reader to purchase four raffle tickets will win a copy of Matt Stone’s book McQueen’s Machines: The Cars and Bikes of a Hollywood Icon.

Be sure to tell Jon that you read about the raffle in VeloceToday. To participate, you MUST call Jon and order directly through him. Be sure to provide your complete mailing address.

The IMRRC is undoubtedly one of the most complete automotive libraries in the United States and also the most accessible and user friendly. We at VeloceToday have already put an order in for the new Formula One book and purchased raffle tickets. We urge you to support the IMRRC by doing the same.

For more information:
The International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen
610 S. Decatur Street
Watkins Glen, NY 14891-1613
Call: (607) 535-9044
Fax: (607) 535-9039
Raffle Mustang can be seen here: http://www.racingarchives.org/raffle.htm
Hours of Operation: 9 am – 5 pm Monday through Saturday

1961 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Owner’s Manual

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This is the second in our series of articles about the 1955-1961 Alfa Giulietta Berlina, the first was the Alfa Berlina Brochure. In the following weeks, VeloceToday will present four more articles on this particular car, including:
Alfa Berlina, an Italian Perspective by Roberto Motta
Alfa Berlina Portfolio
Book Review: Evan Wilson’s Alfa Giulietta Book
Why the Alfa Berlina Failed

Below are fifteen images from the Berlina/Spider owner’s manual.

All images below © Alfa Romeo Automobilismo Storico, Centro Documentazione (Arese, Milano)


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Le Mans, 2011 In English and Italian

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A Report by Roberto Motta.

Audi hat-trick at the 79th 24 Hours of Le Mans will go down in history as one of more exciting 24 Hours of Le Mans ever.

By Roberto Motta
Photos by: Media Audi, Citroen commuication, medium and GM Ferrari Media

The 2011 Le Mans will also go down in racing history for the two disastrous accidents involving the Audi team and close finish between the winning Audi of Tréleuyer, Fassler, Lotterer and the second place Peugeot of Bourdais, Lamy and Pagenaud.
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This Week, of Interest

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This week, we first make proud note of the fact that our hard working Italian Editor Roberto Motta was among those awarded at the traditional “Ceremony of Alfa Romeo Champions”. Motta also covered the fantastic weekend of racing at the Coppa Intereuropa, which resulted in an unusual but worthy four segment feature for this week’s VT and answers reader’s pleas for more Alfa photos. And don’t miss the Canadian GP report. Scroll down, please!

Scuderia Portello Awards Its Champions at Coppa Intereuropa  

Motta, center, accepts the Scuderia Portello Award.

June 3-5 2011. During the Cup Intereuropa, Scuderia del Portello met for the traditional ‘Ceremony of Alfa Romeo Champions’. The award ceremony was held in the press room of the circuit of Monza, in the presence of more than 150 guests from all over the world.

There were representatives of the Alfa clubs based in Japan, Brazil, Britain, Germany, Switzerland, and Portugal as well as drivers, partners, journalists, employees and sponsors.

At the table were the following speakers: Marco Cajani, President of the club, Stefano Agazzi, head of Alfa Romeo Automobilismo Storico (Alfa Romeo Historic Motoring), Arturo Merzario, Honorary President, and Bruno Longoni and Mario Colelli, who represented the CSAI. The winners received the sculptured trophy for 2010 sport season, which was dedicated to the Giulietta.

One of the recipients of the sculptured trophy (designed by Cajani, an architect by profession), was VeloceToday’s Italian Editor Roberto Motta, who was honored for his many articles written for Italian magazines about Alfa Romeos. Motta is a busy and dedicated journalist—in the past eight years he has received six awards for his work. Congratulations Roberto!

Special prizes were awarded to former Alfa Romeo drivers Nanni Galli, Luigi Colzani, and the driver/journalist Eugenio Mosca.

During the ceremony, after watching a movie on the 2010 season, Cajani thanked those present and explained the future plans of the Scuderia, which include the Brotherhood and Peace raid from Toronto to New York with a 1973 Alfa Romeo Giulia TI and the participation in the Goodwood Festival and Revival with the 1971 Alfa 33TT/3. President Cajani officially announced the 2012 program of the ‘Tour of Italy for Automobiles’.

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