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Italophile Trivia

Yep, you win a freeze dried calzone.

Monzaholics will note this is the old course with the banked oval and no chicanes......when men were men.:cool:

I have this old version on a sim-race program and it's a wild ride in a fifties era F1 car. Bumpy, scary as hell, big fun.
 
Scott beat me to it. I've been to it, and drove around it circa 2006 (at a fun pace) in a BMW (sacrilege I know) owned by the head of Acerbis, who took me mid-week and we drove in like we owned the place. It was a surreal life moment. I once had crappy old cell phone pics of it and out front at the Museo. Don't know if I can ever find them, but I'll go digging.

Monza Sat
 
Cool !
I thought I read someplace they were thinking of trying to revive the Big Oval !
Highly unlikely from what I understand from my other good friend who grew up in Monza. He said most of the older locals dislike the noise and crowds. Same everywhere around the world I guess. ;)
I did walk the old embankments with my friend when there, and they were in massive disrepair, with the paving crumbling and full of weeds and related. Most of it was being used for storage for the facility.
 
I remember many years ago reading in Road & Track magazine of The Race of Two Worlds in 1957 at the Monza oval, where a team of Jaguars from the Scottish Ecurie Ecosse competed against an American team driving Indy cars over a 500 mile distance. The Jaguars had 4-speed gearboxes and were able to get the "jump" on the Americans, whose cars had, I believe, two speed gearboxes. As one Jaguar driver later said, one moment he was happily in the lead when an Indy car driven by Jimmy Bryan (?)came sliding past him on the edge of adhesion, Bryan's arms sawing vigorously to maintain control, while smoking a cigar (open face helmet with goggles permitted this) completely at ease, no matter his car's limited traction at the speed he was going! Bryan won the race.

Ralph
 
ok, it Was a couple of years ago.. you know how time flies…
Anything is possible, but as your article comments also stated what I did... I think the cost would be brutally expensive, but if the Italian government wanted to make it happen, it could.
 
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