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He seemed to be well positioned at Fiat, then the leading racing team but his friend Luigi Bazzi who had recently joined Enzo Ferrari at Alfa Romeo knew the ego that blazed inside Vittorio Jano could not be contained at the larger company. After the desultory results of the new Alfa P1, a Fiat copy no less, it was suggested by Bazzi that in order to succeed they needed to go to the source, they needed to kidnap “Jano”. It was a job that the equally ambitious Ferrari, a self-described troublemaker was born to. Yet Jano was not so easily moved, and according to legend he demanded a formal proposal from Alfa Romeo, imperiously dismissing Ferrari by stating that he would “speak to the organ grinder, not the monkey”. To the shock and dismay of his managers at Fiat, Vittorio was soon headed to Alfa Romeo.

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2009 Classic Grand Prix Calendar
POWERED BY TURBO

Presenting the new Classic Formula 1 Grand Prix calendar. Theme for 2009 calendar is “Powered by Turbo.” A tribute to the rage and age of turbo era. Alain Prost, France’s greatest Formula 1 driver, graces the cover in the Principality of Monaco.

Additional drivers include:

Nelson Piquet, Gilles Villeneuve, Ayrton Senna, Didier Pironi, Keke Rosberg, Michele Alboreto, Nigel Mansell, Niki Lauda, Patrick Tambay, Rene Arnoux and Riccardo Patrese are all captured in beautiful images from the archives of Grand Prix Photo, a leading European motorsports photo studio.

An added bonus is an interview with Francois Castaing, the Renault engineer who turbo-charged Formula 1. He shares the ‘moment’ that was Dijon-Prenois 1979, when Jean-Pierre Jabouille rode into history as the first turbo-charged Grand Prix winner.

Calendar size: Ships Finished 12 x 18. Flat 24 x 18 inch.
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