Quartzo 1/43 1951 Ferrari 375 - Piero Tarrufi (Q4119)

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Quartzo 1/43 1951 Ferrari 375 - Piero Tarrufi (Q4119)
Known as the 'silver fox' because of his shock of prematurely silver hair, Taruffi was an all-round sportsman, qualified as Doctor of Industrial Engineering and spent many years dovetailing the task of managing the Gilera motorcycle team with his many car racing commitments. He started racing on motorbikes in the 1920s before switching to cars. His first four-wheel race was in a Fiat in 1923. He raced in the Mille Miglia for the first time in 1930, finishing third in 1933, but it would take him another twenty-four years to win the famous Italian road race, a success he achieved in its final edition. When the official World Championship began in 1950 he drove an Alfa 158 in the Italian Grand Prix, switching to Ferrari the following year when he finished fifth in the Championship rankings. In 1952 he won his sole World Championship Grand Epreuve, the Swiss Grand Prix at Berne, in a Formula 2 Ferrari 500. From then on his Formula 1 career dipped as he signed for Lancia to drive sports cars in 1954. He guested in a Ferrari at Monza, an outing he repeated in 1956, but he was fifty-one when he finally bagged that Mille Miglia victory the following year, and thereafter he quit the cockpit. In retirement his book, The Technique of Motor Racing (published 1966), is regarded as one of the sport's all-time classics.

very smart model of approx 92mm mounted on a black stand with a mirrored back panel, the model features fine spoked wheels with treaded tyres, chromed radiator, suspension and filler cap, nicely detailed cockpit with driver figure

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