1 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,810 When Nuvolari races, when Nuvolari passes by, 2 00:00:15,890 --> 00:00:20,080 a bunch of people show up and lay down on the lawns. 3 00:00:21,810 --> 00:00:26,650 When Nuvolari races, when Nuvolari passes by 4 00:00:27,380 --> 00:00:31,580 people wait for his arrival, for hours and hours... 5 00:00:52,210 --> 00:00:54,610 Sooner or later you’ll get hurt, Tazio... 6 00:00:54,780 --> 00:00:58,570 I wanted to see how fast I could get to uncle’s house. 7 00:00:58,650 --> 00:01:03,480 Do your homework! Don’t waste time with that like your father! 8 00:01:24,980 --> 00:01:27,710 I am faster than Tazio Nuvolari! 9 00:01:43,980 --> 00:01:45,710 - Hi Grandpa! - Here you are! 10 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:49,880 - Why are you so sweaty? - I ran with my bike! 11 00:01:51,710 --> 00:01:55,410 - Can we see it again? - Of course, we’ll see it later. 12 00:01:56,350 --> 00:02:00,650 By the way, I made up my mind! 13 00:02:00,730 --> 00:02:04,480 It’s been hidden in my barn for more than 60 years 14 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,980 I'll take it back to Mantua. - Are you sure? 15 00:02:07,060 --> 00:02:10,480 Absolutely! Sit down so I keep telling you about Nuvolari! 16 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,780 Who at my age already used to speed on his bicycle! 17 00:02:13,860 --> 00:02:18,610 Of course, his father used to do races, so his destiny was sealed. 18 00:02:18,690 --> 00:02:21,880 - Was he talented? - His father Arturo? You bet he was! 19 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:27,030 He started as an amateur, winning the Italian Championship on road 20 00:02:27,110 --> 00:02:30,280 while his uncle Giuseppe was Italian Champion on track! 21 00:02:31,110 --> 00:02:34,250 And he gave Tazio his first bicycle, 22 00:02:34,330 --> 00:02:36,650 that he used to get to school. 23 00:02:36,730 --> 00:02:41,250 Artura, Tazio’s sister, that day was invited to a ball... 24 00:02:41,330 --> 00:02:45,050 Oh my gosh, the shoemaker hasn’t brought my shoes yet! 25 00:02:45,130 --> 00:02:47,480 It’s late! I’ll miss the party! 26 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,780 - So put on other shoes! - Are you crazy, Tazio? 27 00:02:51,860 --> 00:02:54,980 I can only wear those shoes on this dress! 28 00:02:56,310 --> 00:02:58,980 He’s not coming, he’s not coming! 29 00:02:59,780 --> 00:03:02,780 - I’ll go get them. - In Mantua? How? 30 00:03:02,860 --> 00:03:05,010 By uncle Giuseppe’s motorcycle! 31 00:04:31,250 --> 00:04:34,980 Hey kid, can I see your license and registration? 32 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,780 This bike belongs to my uncle, 33 00:04:38,860 --> 00:04:41,610 he asked me to take it back to home. 34 00:04:41,690 --> 00:04:43,690 How? 35 00:04:43,770 --> 00:04:46,080 - Pushing it! - Well... 36 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,350 let’s go, I’ll come with you! 37 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:04,850 Hey, slow down! 38 00:05:20,550 --> 00:05:22,780 I’ll remember your face! 39 00:05:23,810 --> 00:05:26,970 Some years later, the officer read on a newspaper 40 00:05:27,050 --> 00:05:29,410 that Nuvolari had won his first race 41 00:05:29,490 --> 00:05:33,280 and told the journalist about that event... 42 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,070 The traffic officer was astonished about it, 43 00:05:36,150 --> 00:05:39,900 and he told everyone in Mantua that traffic officer was him. 44 00:05:39,980 --> 00:05:41,980 But no one believed him. 45 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,030 Many people were looking for it... 46 00:05:57,110 --> 00:06:00,910 I’ve always been afraid one day they’d come to me. 47 00:06:00,990 --> 00:06:02,990 Luckily they never did. 48 00:06:09,180 --> 00:06:11,310 Push it off! Let it pop off! 49 00:06:11,390 --> 00:06:15,350 No! Perhaps we can block it. 50 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:22,350 I’ve kept it as my greatest secret! 51 00:06:36,580 --> 00:06:37,680 Do we take it? 52 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,210 That’s stealing! They’d look for it! 53 00:06:40,290 --> 00:06:43,280 Well, I’ll take it! Go away you chickens! 54 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,250 And don’t rat on me or I’ll beat you up! 55 00:07:02,550 --> 00:07:05,930 - What’s wrong grandpa? - I'm not crying. 56 00:07:06,010 --> 00:07:08,010 I’m happy! 57 00:07:08,090 --> 00:07:12,350 This hood brought me luck, do you know why? 58 00:07:12,430 --> 00:07:17,180 - Why? - Thanks to it I met Grandma Sterina 59 00:07:28,810 --> 00:07:30,810 Do you need some help? 60 00:08:32,550 --> 00:08:35,630 - So what will you do with it? - Don't know. 61 00:08:35,710 --> 00:08:39,580 You know who belongs to? The great Tazio Nuvolari! 62 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,770 - Who? Someone who raced today? - Yes! 63 00:08:43,850 --> 00:08:45,850 Your t-shirt is so dirty! 64 00:08:45,930 --> 00:08:50,150 Shortly before I got him a coffee. But he spat it on me. 65 00:08:50,230 --> 00:08:52,900 - Who? - Him! Nuvolari! 66 00:08:52,980 --> 00:08:57,210 He stopped to refuel so I got him a coffee. 67 00:08:57,290 --> 00:08:59,290 He was nice to thank you like that! 68 00:08:59,370 --> 00:09:03,950 - Unluckily the coffee was hot. - You’re funny! Hoods’ thief! 69 00:09:05,180 --> 00:09:08,450 Grandma Sterina was so beautiful! I’ve never met her! 70 00:09:09,780 --> 00:09:11,950 She went one year before you were born. 71 00:09:12,030 --> 00:09:14,850 - Who is this child she’s holding? - Your mother! 72 00:09:15,550 --> 00:09:16,980 She was just born 73 00:09:17,060 --> 00:09:20,610 Grandpa, Is Grandma Sterina watching us now? 74 00:09:20,690 --> 00:09:26,280 Of course! She told me to bring the Nuvolari’s hood back to Mantua! 75 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:30,880 - Did Nuvolari have a girlfriend? - Naturally! Her name was Carolina 76 00:09:30,970 --> 00:09:33,850 they loved each other for their entire life. 77 00:10:30,980 --> 00:10:35,010 - Whose is it? - My uncle Giuseppe's. 78 00:10:36,410 --> 00:10:38,410 It’s beautiful! 79 00:10:38,810 --> 00:10:41,350 If you take off your mask, I can see you too! 80 00:10:48,010 --> 00:10:50,350 That’s me! Am I ugly? 81 00:10:53,110 --> 00:10:55,980 No! You are prettier than I thought! 82 00:10:58,380 --> 00:11:00,780 - My name is Tazio. - I’m Carolina. 83 00:11:02,180 --> 00:11:05,550 - I’ve never been on a bike. - Do you want to take a ride? 84 00:11:05,630 --> 00:11:08,510 Are you crazy? We’ll be in trouble 85 00:11:08,590 --> 00:11:10,810 and you're too young to drive it! 86 00:11:22,650 --> 00:11:24,650 Are you coming? 87 00:11:26,650 --> 00:11:28,510 - C’mon hop in! - You drive slow? 88 00:11:28,590 --> 00:11:30,380 Of course! 89 00:12:00,410 --> 00:12:03,050 - You drive too fast! - Were you scared? 90 00:12:03,130 --> 00:12:05,130 Just a little bit. 91 00:12:05,210 --> 00:12:08,100 When my uncle brought me to a motorcycle racing 92 00:12:08,180 --> 00:12:10,530 - I made my choice... - What choice? 93 00:12:10,610 --> 00:12:14,070 - I do want to race! - You’re out of your mind! 94 00:12:14,150 --> 00:12:15,980 Perhaps you’re right! 95 00:12:42,810 --> 00:12:44,810 Come, lay down next to me 96 00:12:53,650 --> 00:12:57,980 How I would fly like a bird! 97 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,280 But you have no wings! 98 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:42,750 And they’ve been engaged since then? 99 00:13:42,830 --> 00:13:45,910 Yes even if, after that stunt on the bike, 100 00:13:45,990 --> 00:13:49,110 Carolina’s parents didn’t like Tazio, 101 00:13:49,190 --> 00:13:52,150 so they forbade them from seeing each other. 102 00:13:53,410 --> 00:13:57,350 But Tazio and Carolina kept seeing secretly, when they could. 103 00:14:08,010 --> 00:14:09,110 Tazio! 104 00:14:11,750 --> 00:14:13,280 Is your father’s car? 105 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,380 - Yes it is! - He knows you got it? 106 00:14:15,460 --> 00:14:19,480 - No, he doesn’t... - What are you going to do? 107 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:21,560 Jump in! 108 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,080 I want to run away with you. 109 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:35,880 My father could kill me for that 110 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,910 Your parents must accept we’re in love. 111 00:14:43,380 --> 00:14:45,380 - I’m afraid. - Do you trust me? 112 00:14:49,750 --> 00:14:52,080 - I do. - Come with me. 113 00:15:46,810 --> 00:15:49,810 They may have noticed we run away by now 114 00:15:53,110 --> 00:15:57,170 I can imagine the tears of my mother and the screams of my father. 115 00:15:57,250 --> 00:16:01,450 And my father promising your father he will break my face. 116 00:16:02,910 --> 00:16:06,030 And my father saying 117 00:16:06,110 --> 00:16:09,180 He’d kill you first, if you’ve touched me. 118 00:16:09,260 --> 00:16:12,880 And my father promising he will force me to marry you. 119 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:20,760 - And what will you do? - I’ll marry you. 120 00:16:28,950 --> 00:16:33,180 - How will we live? - I'll race, win and we’ll be rich. 121 00:16:34,780 --> 00:16:37,510 Bike racing are dangerous and I am afraid... 122 00:16:39,250 --> 00:16:41,650 ...you could fall off and die. 123 00:16:42,580 --> 00:16:44,980 Are you afraid of dying? 124 00:16:46,650 --> 00:16:51,900 I am not, but when it happens I’d be in my bed. 125 00:16:51,980 --> 00:16:55,010 So you should be afraid every time you go to bed! 126 00:16:59,550 --> 00:17:01,810 You’re such a Mantuan pig-headed! 127 00:17:06,310 --> 00:17:10,410 On the 10th November 1917, in Milan, Tazio marries Carolina Perina 128 00:17:10,490 --> 00:17:14,130 with civil ceremony after their elopement. 129 00:17:14,210 --> 00:17:19,210 On the 14th September 1918 their first-born child, Giorgio, was born. 130 00:17:19,980 --> 00:17:24,070 - Why did they eloped? - That’s how it worked at that time, 131 00:17:24,150 --> 00:17:28,700 if a girl spent the night with you, you had to marry her. 132 00:17:28,780 --> 00:17:31,410 - Why? - I've just told you... 133 00:17:31,490 --> 00:17:36,030 ...at the time we had to do it like this. 134 00:17:36,110 --> 00:17:40,780 - I don't understand, grandpa... - You can’t understand yet. 135 00:17:40,860 --> 00:17:44,750 Sleep now, it’s late, we’ll carry on tomorrow. 136 00:17:46,550 --> 00:17:50,150 - Good night. - Good night sweety. 137 00:17:53,110 --> 00:17:56,310 Don’t worry, Ada. 138 00:17:56,390 --> 00:18:01,050 We’ll be back on Friday and you’ll be here on Saturday so... 139 00:18:02,110 --> 00:18:04,110 Of course I’ll drive slow... 140 00:18:04,810 --> 00:18:07,650 This is a beautiful thing for him, 141 00:18:08,950 --> 00:18:12,350 he wants to do it and I’m happy for him... 142 00:18:13,750 --> 00:18:17,450 Yes, I’ll call you every hour...okay? 143 00:18:17,780 --> 00:18:20,810 Yes, bye...thank you 144 00:18:22,710 --> 00:18:26,480 - Leo, we’re leaving! - Hooray! 145 00:19:41,610 --> 00:19:43,610 - Leo, come! - Here I am! 146 00:19:45,750 --> 00:19:48,210 We had hard times after the War, 147 00:19:48,290 --> 00:19:50,780 petrol was 95 liras per liter. 148 00:19:50,860 --> 00:19:54,250 - What is a lira? - Our old currency. 149 00:19:54,810 --> 00:19:58,050 That day, I woke up at 5 a.m. and came over here, 150 00:19:59,210 --> 00:20:04,250 my father didn't know where I was so he was mad at me 151 00:20:04,330 --> 00:20:06,480 as I stayed away all day long. 152 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:10,950 - Was he mad as hell? - Yes, he was, I made a mischief. 153 00:20:11,030 --> 00:20:15,750 - What is mischief? - It's something you shouldn’t do. 154 00:20:18,050 --> 00:20:22,050 Everything has changed here, it was all different! 155 00:20:22,130 --> 00:20:24,710 Nuvolari was arriving from there, 156 00:20:24,790 --> 00:20:27,680 he stopped here whilst I came from that side... 157 00:20:49,950 --> 00:20:51,950 Mario, Nuvolari is arriving! 158 00:20:52,030 --> 00:20:54,350 - Let’s do something for him! - What? 159 00:20:56,250 --> 00:20:59,450 - Give this coffee I've made to him. - Why me? 160 00:20:59,530 --> 00:21:04,210 Tazio would be glad to get a coffee from a child! There he is! 161 00:21:20,650 --> 00:21:23,680 - That’s fine! - Sorry! Didn’t know it’s so hot! 162 00:21:29,150 --> 00:21:31,150 He should be besides me. 163 00:21:31,230 --> 00:21:34,900 What about the last Biondetti Alfa radio communication? 164 00:21:34,980 --> 00:21:38,880 - You’re leading! He's late - I knew it! 165 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,980 I’ve never washed that t-shirt, you know? 166 00:22:08,180 --> 00:22:10,180 Sterina neither dared it. 167 00:22:10,260 --> 00:22:13,810 I still have it hidden in a drawer. 168 00:22:15,250 --> 00:22:17,280 - I’ll give it to you! - Thanks! 169 00:22:50,750 --> 00:22:52,930 - Welcome! - Thank you. 170 00:22:53,010 --> 00:22:55,450 - Let me accompany you. - Thanks. 171 00:22:55,530 --> 00:22:59,380 Dear little brother, she’s Elena, my new fiancée, 172 00:22:59,460 --> 00:23:01,780 - Isn’t she beautiful? - Enchanting! 173 00:23:01,860 --> 00:23:03,860 Thank you! 174 00:23:04,510 --> 00:23:08,550 Well, how did you choose Mr Borzacchini? 175 00:23:09,450 --> 00:23:12,480 I told you, he’s adore me! 176 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:16,380 My congratulations for your victory and for your lovely wife. 177 00:23:16,460 --> 00:23:19,480 Thank you! He always copies me in everything! 178 00:23:20,010 --> 00:23:22,010 You have blue eyes too! 179 00:23:22,090 --> 00:23:25,280 Yeah but those are MY blue eyes, Tazio! 180 00:23:26,380 --> 00:23:28,010 Varzi’s here... 181 00:23:29,250 --> 00:23:31,410 Nice of you to invite him. 182 00:23:33,380 --> 00:23:35,580 Actually I did not expect he’d come. 183 00:23:43,980 --> 00:23:48,070 As we go for the line, we see two lights in front of us. 184 00:23:48,150 --> 00:23:51,610 We were up, but Tazio wanted to surpass them. 185 00:23:53,380 --> 00:23:56,680 We were really close but Varzi wouldn’t give up. 186 00:24:01,650 --> 00:24:03,650 "Turn off the headlights... 187 00:24:03,980 --> 00:24:07,630 Varzi would think we got a car damage and chill". 188 00:24:07,710 --> 00:24:09,050 It worked! 189 00:24:10,610 --> 00:24:14,050 He didn’t see us arriving, neither heard. 190 00:24:14,130 --> 00:24:16,280 So we overtook him! 191 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:21,350 You should have seen Varzi’s face in that moment! 192 00:24:21,430 --> 00:24:23,880 Weren’t you afraid, Guidotti? 193 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,530 You know Nuvolari is crazy! 194 00:24:26,610 --> 00:24:30,530 He plays with death every time he jumps in his car! 195 00:24:30,610 --> 00:24:34,380 We were speeding at 200km/h! 196 00:24:34,460 --> 00:24:37,050 I could not see anything! 197 00:24:38,980 --> 00:24:42,450 Yes, in that moment... 198 00:24:42,530 --> 00:24:44,550 ...I saw my life before my eyes. 199 00:24:44,630 --> 00:24:47,480 Did your team order to stay in second position? 200 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:51,270 Yes, it did. But Tazio didn’t care. 201 00:24:51,350 --> 00:24:54,450 He just wanted to surpass Varzi at all costs. 202 00:24:55,550 --> 00:24:59,610 {\an8}We were there, he overtook me in few seconds and won! 203 00:25:01,380 --> 00:25:03,730 Just incredible! 204 00:25:03,810 --> 00:25:07,810 Here he is! The great Achille Varzi! 205 00:25:08,510 --> 00:25:10,510 - Nice to see you. - My pleasure. 206 00:25:10,590 --> 00:25:13,880 Guess she’s Norma? Enchanté! 207 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,710 She's Elena, my new fiancée. 208 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:24,880 Hello Tazio. 209 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,110 He beat me yesterday. 210 00:25:29,190 --> 00:25:33,850 The great Tazio Nuvolari! Achille has been up all night long! 211 00:25:33,930 --> 00:25:36,880 He’s so fast but I’m faster in the dark. 212 00:25:40,910 --> 00:25:42,910 Can we talk for a moment? 213 00:25:46,150 --> 00:25:48,150 Carolina, please, 214 00:25:48,230 --> 00:25:53,010 offer something to this lovely girl, while I’m talking with Achille. 215 00:25:57,110 --> 00:25:59,110 Please. 216 00:26:12,010 --> 00:26:15,430 There are many people to celebrate your victory. 217 00:26:15,510 --> 00:26:17,830 Have you read the newspapers? 218 00:26:17,910 --> 00:26:19,910 I’ve read them all. 219 00:26:23,150 --> 00:26:26,080 We cannot fail to celebrate... 220 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:30,050 the value of Nuvolari and his faithful mechanic Guidotti... 221 00:26:30,130 --> 00:26:32,950 Tazio Nuvolari is the man of sheer speed... 222 00:26:33,030 --> 00:26:38,380 He's the brave man, who beat Varzi turning off the car headlights... 223 00:26:38,410 --> 00:26:40,410 You have read closely... 224 00:26:40,490 --> 00:26:44,050 Bullshit, you’re unfair and you win unfairly! 225 00:26:45,250 --> 00:26:48,210 Team orders were clear. I should stay ahead. 226 00:26:48,290 --> 00:26:51,950 Nobody remembers the second place. Victories are important. 227 00:26:52,030 --> 00:26:55,250 The fucking orders were clear. Do not overtake me! 228 00:26:55,330 --> 00:26:57,980 Aren’t you afraid when your husband races? 229 00:26:59,980 --> 00:27:01,980 I am terrified. 230 00:27:02,710 --> 00:27:06,080 I love seeing Achille speeding with his racing car... 231 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,610 ...I get excited! 232 00:27:08,690 --> 00:27:11,750 They had been challengers for several years, 233 00:27:11,830 --> 00:27:14,880 and yet they respect each other very much. 234 00:27:20,750 --> 00:27:25,250 Actually Achille didn’t want to come over here. I had to drag him... 235 00:27:25,330 --> 00:27:29,610 I do understand. Tazio overtook him in such a crazy way... 236 00:27:32,210 --> 00:27:34,410 Would you walk me to the toilet? 237 00:27:34,490 --> 00:27:36,550 - Of course. - Thanks. 238 00:27:37,350 --> 00:27:40,300 Achille, we’ve known each other for years. 239 00:27:40,380 --> 00:27:42,750 You were with me when I founded my team 240 00:27:42,830 --> 00:27:44,980 and gave you the Bugatti 2000. 241 00:27:45,050 --> 00:27:48,010 This race won't break our friendship. 242 00:27:48,090 --> 00:27:52,300 Do you agree? You win some, you lose some. 243 00:27:52,380 --> 00:27:54,980 There will be other challenges for us. 244 00:27:55,060 --> 00:27:57,060 You played dirty, you know that. 245 00:27:57,140 --> 00:28:01,280 Without that headlights bullshit you’d never won. 246 00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:06,280 In Tripoli I overtook you without turning off the headlights! 247 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:08,450 I'm talking about yesterday! 248 00:28:08,530 --> 00:28:10,680 Several times you won and I lost, 249 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:15,750 especially on motorbike... Please, just forget it! 250 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,930 You’re such a piece of shit, Tazio. 251 00:28:19,010 --> 00:28:21,810 To win, you would spit in your wife’s face 252 00:28:21,810 --> 00:28:24,730 or let her sleep with your worst enemy. 253 00:28:24,810 --> 00:28:27,110 Do not exaggerate, Achille. 254 00:28:28,110 --> 00:28:32,250 How I would spit in your face! 255 00:28:35,250 --> 00:28:38,080 The one who wins a race is not the fastest... 256 00:28:39,550 --> 00:28:41,750 ...but the bravest. 257 00:28:44,210 --> 00:28:47,880 I’ll be watching you on the Alexandria’s track. 258 00:28:48,810 --> 00:28:51,750 If you don’t take off whilst I surpass you. 259 00:28:53,410 --> 00:28:55,450 I will smash your car. 260 00:28:57,580 --> 00:28:59,580 Understand? 261 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,880 Enjoy yourself. 262 00:29:47,850 --> 00:29:49,850 - Are you ok, Norma? - Yes I am! 263 00:29:49,930 --> 00:29:53,510 How do I look? I want to be perfect for Achille. 264 00:29:54,510 --> 00:29:56,510 You’re gorgeous. 265 00:29:56,590 --> 00:30:00,810 I wish I’d be like you... and I want you to be my friend. 266 00:30:02,780 --> 00:30:06,830 - Aren’t you jealous of Achille? - No. They're racers! 267 00:30:06,910 --> 00:30:11,170 It’s fair they meet some slutty bitches after racing, 268 00:30:11,250 --> 00:30:14,680 the important thing is they come back home! 269 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,310 Oh no, Tazio would never cheat on me. 270 00:30:22,250 --> 00:30:24,680 It's true. There’s no reason to laugh. 271 00:30:28,450 --> 00:30:30,710 There you are! I was looking for you! 272 00:30:30,790 --> 00:30:34,180 - Why? - I want to leave now. Hurry up. 273 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,280 Bye, my friend! 274 00:30:56,950 --> 00:31:01,410 Come on, Compagnoni, tell us how this scoundrel managed to beat me! 275 00:31:01,490 --> 00:31:06,050 I couldn’t let you win the Circuit of Three Provinces! 276 00:31:06,130 --> 00:31:09,550 - Indeed, I won’t race anymore. - Mr Ferrari, don’t say it. 277 00:31:10,210 --> 00:31:14,050 When we left Porretta, immediately after the starting, 278 00:31:14,130 --> 00:31:17,430 this man crossed a bump in the road so fast, 279 00:31:17,510 --> 00:31:21,050 that I was hurled in the back of the car because of the recoil. 280 00:31:21,130 --> 00:31:23,610 Damn! You’d have killed him, you know? 281 00:31:23,690 --> 00:31:27,880 - Borzacchini, do not exaggerate - Luckily I was holding the handle 282 00:31:27,970 --> 00:31:31,880 - It was all calculated anyway - Your insanity is unbeatable! 283 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:36,950 Let me finish. Tazio saw me, but he didn’t slow down 284 00:31:37,030 --> 00:31:39,030 He kept driving with one hand 285 00:31:39,110 --> 00:31:42,580 with the other he helped me to get back in the cockpit. 286 00:31:42,660 --> 00:31:45,980 He saved me, but... 287 00:31:46,060 --> 00:31:50,310 the strong hit broke the gas pedal. 288 00:31:51,250 --> 00:31:53,480 So we stopped, open the bottom 289 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,280 to find out there was a broken spring. 290 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,910 - So what do you think I did? - No clue. What? 291 00:31:59,990 --> 00:32:03,050 - Tell me what did I do. - I don't know! 292 00:32:03,130 --> 00:32:05,410 I pulled out my belt 293 00:32:05,490 --> 00:32:08,880 tying it together with the petrol grip, 294 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,180 closed the bottom and we drove the car together. 295 00:32:12,260 --> 00:32:14,710 Tazio ruled the clutch, gearshift and brake 296 00:32:14,790 --> 00:32:19,180 while I was pulling the belt and speeding up. Sheer madness! 297 00:32:19,260 --> 00:32:21,380 I didn’t know how to hold myself! 298 00:32:21,460 --> 00:32:23,850 I was pulling the belt with my right hand 299 00:32:23,850 --> 00:32:27,210 as I was trying to hold me somehow with my left hand! 300 00:32:27,290 --> 00:32:30,550 Also because there was no handle anymore! 301 00:32:30,630 --> 00:32:34,810 Then the stones started hurting my hand, that started bleeding. 302 00:32:34,890 --> 00:32:37,230 I don’t know how I got through it. 303 00:32:37,310 --> 00:32:39,980 When you overtook me, you ran like lightning. 304 00:32:40,060 --> 00:32:42,600 However we can say 305 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,450 it was a great satisfaction for us to overtake you! Wasn’t it? 306 00:32:48,810 --> 00:32:50,810 Well, I do accept my defeat 307 00:32:50,890 --> 00:32:54,050 and as I announce to all of you my retirement, 308 00:32:54,130 --> 00:32:58,850 let’s have a toast for my team 309 00:32:58,930 --> 00:33:01,410 Nuvolari and Borzacchini... 310 00:33:02,110 --> 00:33:04,950 to our next victories! 311 00:33:06,910 --> 00:33:11,480 One, two, three! Long live the great Alfa Romeo team! 312 00:33:14,950 --> 00:33:18,950 - IN SICILY THE 23 - RD TARGA FLORIO WAS WON BY TAZIO NUVOLARI 313 00:33:19,030 --> 00:33:23,380 WHO HAD DRIVEN AN ALFA ROMEO SPEEDING AT 79,294 KM/H 314 00:33:46,310 --> 00:33:49,850 The slowest animal to the fastest man... 315 00:33:52,010 --> 00:33:55,210 As D’Annunzio told me when he gave it to me. 316 00:33:55,290 --> 00:33:58,170 That will be my new lucky charm, Carolina. 317 00:33:58,250 --> 00:34:01,450 I will print it out on my yellow shirt and on my car. 318 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,880 All the newspapers are talking about your Targa Florio! 319 00:34:10,780 --> 00:34:12,780 I promised it to Mr D’Annunzio... 320 00:34:17,250 --> 00:34:21,180 Do you remember the first time you went on a bike with me? 321 00:34:22,780 --> 00:34:24,780 How could I forget it? 322 00:34:26,150 --> 00:34:28,670 I have fulfilled all of my dreams. 323 00:34:28,750 --> 00:34:31,250 I’m the fastest pilot in the world 324 00:34:31,330 --> 00:34:33,950 married with the best woman in the world! 325 00:34:41,750 --> 00:34:43,750 You’re back dad! 326 00:34:45,380 --> 00:34:47,380 I am, my little love. 327 00:34:51,210 --> 00:34:55,380 - Have you won, dad? - Yes I have, Giorgio. How are you? 328 00:34:57,050 --> 00:34:59,950 Good morning Mr. Nuvolari and welcome back. 329 00:35:00,030 --> 00:35:02,030 Good morning, Maria. 330 00:35:02,110 --> 00:35:05,580 - Giorgio has to do his homework. - Don’t you? 331 00:35:05,660 --> 00:35:09,980 - Yes, dad. - Do your homework. We’ll talk later 332 00:35:10,510 --> 00:35:14,210 - Will you tell me about the racing? - Of course I will! 333 00:35:17,750 --> 00:35:21,350 Welcome back, dad... did you win? 334 00:35:21,430 --> 00:35:26,410 - Obviously! - There are some children at the gate, 335 00:35:26,490 --> 00:35:29,380 will you not let them get in today? 336 00:35:29,460 --> 00:35:33,950 I promised them that I’d let them take some apples at my return. 337 00:35:34,030 --> 00:35:36,450 Children never forget promises. 338 00:35:36,530 --> 00:35:39,580 Wait for me downstairs... I’m coming... 339 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,450 Come with me. 340 00:36:12,910 --> 00:36:15,550 What’s happening? Speak to me please. 341 00:36:20,250 --> 00:36:23,070 I spoke with Paride Mambelli, after the race. 342 00:36:23,150 --> 00:36:25,850 That coward who was in my car? 343 00:36:26,780 --> 00:36:29,080 Perhaps he’s a wise man, not a coward. 344 00:36:30,750 --> 00:36:32,750 What did he tell you? 345 00:36:33,380 --> 00:36:37,780 He told me you drove like a madman and he was really afraid of dying. 346 00:36:39,350 --> 00:36:43,910 You always shouted at him to protect himself under the bottom, 347 00:36:43,990 --> 00:36:46,480 in case the car turned over... 348 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,280 - He really told you that? - Yes, he did. 349 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,480 Well, he won’t race with me anymore. 350 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,210 I do ask you to quit. 351 00:36:57,910 --> 00:37:01,550 You’re asking me to die right now... 352 00:37:05,310 --> 00:37:07,950 I still think of the death of Brilli-Peri. 353 00:37:18,210 --> 00:37:21,110 When you married me you knew where I’m up to... 354 00:37:22,110 --> 00:37:26,650 Their death made me return to Alfa Romeo with Varzi and Campari 355 00:37:27,180 --> 00:37:29,180 even if I argued with Varzi, 356 00:37:29,260 --> 00:37:32,210 we don't talk anymore after that Thousand Miles. 357 00:37:32,290 --> 00:37:34,290 You have fulfilled your dreams! 358 00:37:37,950 --> 00:37:40,780 You cannot understand. 359 00:37:43,180 --> 00:37:45,450 Do not treat me like an idiot. 360 00:37:47,380 --> 00:37:50,480 Several times I have closed my eyes, 361 00:37:51,310 --> 00:37:54,870 thinking of you with some sluts at the racing box 362 00:37:54,950 --> 00:37:56,950 or at the parties afterwards. 363 00:38:00,610 --> 00:38:03,410 But I cannot bear to watch you die. 364 00:38:06,810 --> 00:38:09,080 It is not enough reach your limit, 365 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,280 you must overcome it. 366 00:39:51,250 --> 00:39:55,050 See that? It is round like the world, like a ball, 367 00:39:55,130 --> 00:39:57,410 like the wheels of a bike or a car. 368 00:39:57,490 --> 00:39:59,950 - Or a bicycle. - Or like doughnuts. 369 00:40:00,030 --> 00:40:03,180 - Or the circuit where you race. - Exactly. 370 00:40:03,260 --> 00:40:06,050 We live in a perfect circle. 371 00:40:06,130 --> 00:40:09,550 - I’m rooting for you not for Varzi! - Good! 372 00:40:10,210 --> 00:40:13,080 My grandpa told me once 373 00:40:13,130 --> 00:40:16,230 you got tied up to a motorcycle to keep racing 374 00:40:16,310 --> 00:40:20,610 because you fractured your hands and your legs. 375 00:40:20,690 --> 00:40:24,550 It was a long time ago, when I used to do bikes racing. 376 00:40:24,630 --> 00:40:26,630 Your grandpa exaggerated a bit, 377 00:40:26,710 --> 00:40:28,930 I just had some bruises and scratches. 378 00:40:29,010 --> 00:40:31,080 Why did you tie yourself up? 379 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,610 Because in this way, I couldn’t stop, 380 00:40:34,690 --> 00:40:37,550 I could just drive faster and faster! 381 00:40:38,350 --> 00:40:42,110 Between 1934 and 1939, the Flying Mantuan has won 382 00:40:42,190 --> 00:40:46,810 so many races, in French, German 383 00:40:46,850 --> 00:40:48,680 and American homes. 384 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,870 He's the most beloved driver all around the world. 385 00:40:51,950 --> 00:40:55,170 Can you believe it? Varzi’s supporters loved him too. 386 00:40:55,250 --> 00:40:58,070 Wow, he must have been a great driver. 387 00:40:58,150 --> 00:41:00,550 Indeed, he was the best! 388 00:41:02,210 --> 00:41:05,250 He was the inventor of the controlled skid! 389 00:41:06,710 --> 00:41:10,110 When he was 43, driving his Alfa Romes B-P3, 390 00:41:10,190 --> 00:41:14,580 he bit Adolf Hitler! 391 00:41:16,250 --> 00:41:20,410 {\an8}The German Grand Prix, the biggest prize for the German automakers, 392 00:41:20,490 --> 00:41:23,880 {\an8}has been won by the Alfa Romeo car, 393 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,680 {\an8}masterfully driven by Tazio Nuvolari. 394 00:41:43,980 --> 00:41:46,980 {\an8}Then it was the origin of the end for Achille Varzi 395 00:41:47,060 --> 00:41:51,750 {\an8}He was testing his Auto Union on the Monza track, 396 00:41:51,830 --> 00:41:55,230 {\an8}a jewel of the German car manufacturers, 397 00:41:55,310 --> 00:41:57,310 {\an8}who recently hired him... 398 00:43:07,710 --> 00:43:10,380 - Mr Varzi! - Mr Ricordi! 399 00:43:13,110 --> 00:43:15,170 Congratulations. 400 00:43:15,250 --> 00:43:20,080 So you will debut at the Grand Prix of Tunisi, next May the 5th! 401 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:23,010 You know how much that race means to me! 402 00:43:23,090 --> 00:43:25,180 Oh, I know. 403 00:43:26,510 --> 00:43:28,980 This time I'm going to beat Nuvolari, 404 00:43:29,510 --> 00:43:34,250 that guy can’t drive, he might be fast but has no style at all! 405 00:43:34,330 --> 00:43:36,850 By the way, have you seen that woman? 406 00:43:37,850 --> 00:43:39,850 She’s gorgeous! 407 00:43:39,930 --> 00:43:43,750 I’d advise you to give up on her. The blonde lady is German. 408 00:43:43,830 --> 00:43:47,110 Furthermore, she is married to a German driver. 409 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:52,550 You won't compromise your career in the Auto Union, for a woman! 410 00:43:52,630 --> 00:43:57,480 There's no risk, German hired an Italian as a new driver 411 00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:01,180 because we are the foreigners they like the most! 412 00:44:01,260 --> 00:44:03,260 You know very well why. 413 00:44:03,340 --> 00:44:07,370 If it wasn’t for politics, you'd still be in the Alfa Romeo. 414 00:44:07,450 --> 00:44:11,580 Politics? That’s ridiculous, I am done with Ferrari and his team. 415 00:44:12,450 --> 00:44:16,850 The car created by Porsche for the Auto Union has no rivals! 416 00:44:16,930 --> 00:44:20,480 I reckon Nuvolari is still kicking himself. 417 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,560 You have to thank Stuck for that. 418 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:27,210 If it wasn’t for him, there would be Tazio driving the Auto right now. 419 00:44:31,910 --> 00:44:36,210 {\an8}One month later, Nuvolari met Varzi, on the shores of Lake Garda 420 00:44:39,580 --> 00:44:41,710 You know how it would be! 421 00:44:44,610 --> 00:44:47,610 What happened between you and the blonde woman? 422 00:44:49,710 --> 00:44:51,710 We’re together... 423 00:44:52,650 --> 00:44:54,650 You are out of your mind! 424 00:44:54,730 --> 00:44:57,480 You are the devil, I am the artist. 425 00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:01,050 But you can’t steal your teammate’s woman! 426 00:45:02,750 --> 00:45:04,750 Let it go. 427 00:45:05,380 --> 00:45:09,410 Real problems are others... 428 00:45:10,410 --> 00:45:12,410 What? 429 00:45:15,350 --> 00:45:18,610 Tazio... I admire you 430 00:45:19,610 --> 00:45:20,710 and love you. 431 00:45:22,710 --> 00:45:25,980 I’ve got over that Thousand Miles. 432 00:45:27,710 --> 00:45:32,410 We have won and lost so many races together. 433 00:45:33,780 --> 00:45:35,780 We have fought... 434 00:45:37,310 --> 00:45:39,310 but you... 435 00:45:41,310 --> 00:45:44,010 you have something I haven’ 436 00:45:47,050 --> 00:45:49,580 you’re not afraid to die. 437 00:45:53,550 --> 00:45:55,880 We’re all going to eventually. 438 00:45:57,310 --> 00:46:00,980 I’d rather do it on my car, than laying on a hospital bed 439 00:46:03,450 --> 00:46:06,150 or seeing my old body falling apart. 440 00:46:06,230 --> 00:46:08,280 What’s your secret? 441 00:46:14,650 --> 00:46:18,450 I’ve my father’s courage, a natural sense of danger... 442 00:46:19,950 --> 00:46:22,280 I just face it, and win it... 443 00:46:23,750 --> 00:46:27,910 People usually stop at risks, they do not dare to go further... 444 00:46:30,180 --> 00:46:33,610 I’m madly in love with her. 445 00:46:35,210 --> 00:46:39,170 You drove like crazy in Tunisi! You went even off the road. 446 00:46:39,250 --> 00:46:41,250 You're lucky to be alive! 447 00:46:44,380 --> 00:46:46,380 I was high on morphine. 448 00:46:48,180 --> 00:46:50,250 There, I’ve said it. 449 00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:57,280 What the hell? Who gave you that shit? 450 00:47:00,910 --> 00:47:02,910 Ilse. 451 00:49:32,380 --> 00:49:36,280 That woman bewitched me. 452 00:49:40,850 --> 00:49:44,350 I always come and walk here before a Grand Prix... 453 00:49:50,150 --> 00:49:52,150 What should I do, Tazio? 454 00:49:54,750 --> 00:49:57,780 You have to go to rehab and leave that woman. 455 00:49:59,810 --> 00:50:01,810 I can’t. 456 00:50:13,350 --> 00:50:15,350 I owed you one. 457 00:50:19,550 --> 00:50:21,980 This means you care about me. Don’t you? 458 00:50:23,210 --> 00:50:25,210 I do... 459 00:50:27,050 --> 00:50:30,450 I’m calling a doctor I know and you’ll go to rehab. 460 00:50:30,530 --> 00:50:34,310 You and me, we still have to be the Italians’ dream! 461 00:50:39,410 --> 00:50:41,710 One more thing... 462 00:50:41,790 --> 00:50:46,150 journalists may want us to race, just you and me on a circuit. 463 00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:51,710 If I lost, I’d never forgive myself, neither do you I guess. 464 00:50:51,790 --> 00:50:53,790 So, I’d say no. 465 00:50:55,750 --> 00:50:57,750 if you agree... 466 00:51:00,150 --> 00:51:02,150 I do agree...my friend 467 00:51:11,980 --> 00:51:13,980 Can I ask you something? 468 00:51:14,060 --> 00:51:16,060 Go on. 469 00:51:17,380 --> 00:51:19,380 Why do you race? 470 00:51:23,980 --> 00:51:27,010 The sound of the engine, the wind on your face 471 00:51:28,050 --> 00:51:33,010 the desire to reach the car in front of you, the scream of the crowd 472 00:51:35,910 --> 00:51:39,010 once you have surpassed it. There, that is my drug! 473 00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,810 Listen, alright, call your doctor... 474 00:51:44,780 --> 00:51:46,950 and thanks, Tazio. 475 00:51:50,510 --> 00:51:52,510 My friend... 476 00:51:55,980 --> 00:51:59,250 4TH NOVEMBER 1936 NUVOLARI WON THE VANDERBILT CUP 477 00:53:47,910 --> 00:53:49,910 God has not been fair to me. 478 00:53:52,780 --> 00:53:56,550 I’d rather have died myself, on the Vanderbilt circuit. 479 00:54:00,950 --> 00:54:03,150 Instead, He took our son, Giorgio. 480 00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:09,680 I shouldn’t have gone. 481 00:54:11,910 --> 00:54:13,910 I shoudn't leave him. 482 00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:18,680 I should have stayed here, next to him. 483 00:54:20,380 --> 00:54:23,810 He told you to go and win for him. 484 00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,680 Now he is up there. 485 00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:37,680 Call Alberto. 486 00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:15,280 {\an8}Dad! You’re back! 487 00:57:31,180 --> 00:57:34,130 His son’s death left a heavy mark on him. 488 00:57:34,210 --> 00:57:36,370 He haven’t left his home for months. 489 00:57:36,450 --> 00:57:40,950 He didn’t want to race anymore, even though everyone wanted him to. 490 00:57:41,580 --> 00:57:46,480 But the time he really thought of retiring was at the Pau circuit, 491 00:57:47,310 --> 00:57:51,150 where there was an accident, and his car went up in flames. 492 00:57:54,510 --> 00:57:56,510 With my half-closed eyes... 493 00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:00,510 I could see the trees standing out in the sky 494 00:58:03,810 --> 00:58:06,850 Doctors around me, 495 00:58:07,610 --> 00:58:09,780 worried for my critical conditions. 496 00:58:13,010 --> 00:58:15,950 A mechanic hopelessly yelling I was dead. 497 00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:29,950 “I am alive! and these people think I’m dead”. 498 00:58:46,310 --> 00:58:48,450 I cannot believe it. 499 00:59:18,110 --> 00:59:22,110 Do you know what I was thinking while I was about to die? 500 00:59:24,310 --> 00:59:27,810 that... I could never see you again. 501 00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:37,080 you fool Nuvolari! 502 00:59:44,850 --> 00:59:48,880 I do apologise, Mr. Gobbato wants to visit you. 503 00:59:49,610 --> 00:59:53,610 Ah...the big manager... 504 00:59:55,210 --> 00:59:57,210 let him in. 505 01:00:05,510 --> 01:00:08,510 - Mr Nuvolari awaits you. - Thanks. 506 01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:19,680 Good morning, Mrs. Carolina 507 01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:23,780 Good morning Mr. Gobbato. I’ll leave you alone. 508 01:00:23,860 --> 01:00:26,180 No, stay with us, 509 01:00:27,910 --> 01:00:30,680 I want you to hear what I am about to say. 510 01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:34,450 You barely made it, you hell of a Tazio! 511 01:00:34,530 --> 01:00:38,500 Thanks to those guys who came with the blankets. 512 01:00:38,580 --> 01:00:41,310 Otherwise your car would have killed me! 513 01:00:42,950 --> 01:00:45,210 I can’t trust Alfa Romeo anymore, 514 01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:50,730 you gave me a shitty car! The tank wasn’t well-built, 515 01:00:50,810 --> 01:00:52,810 and I was about to lose my life. 516 01:00:55,110 --> 01:00:59,680 And it was not my fault 517 01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:02,880 - but a fault in its build. - It was just... 518 01:01:03,510 --> 01:01:08,470 ... an isolated case, Tazio. We have won so many races. 519 01:01:08,550 --> 01:01:13,550 The couple Alfa Romeo-Nuvolari is strong now, and crowd loves it. 520 01:01:14,050 --> 01:01:17,850 I have taken my decision. I’m retiring. 521 01:01:17,930 --> 01:01:20,630 Come on! I don’t believe you. 522 01:01:20,710 --> 01:01:23,030 Besides, you can’t do it! 523 01:01:23,110 --> 01:01:26,500 Do you know what does it means, economically speaking? 524 01:01:26,580 --> 01:01:28,580 You must respect the agreement. 525 01:01:28,660 --> 01:01:31,550 I don’t give a shit about the agreement! 526 01:01:32,450 --> 01:01:37,250 I’m done with racing. You can’t even give me a top car 527 01:01:39,150 --> 01:01:42,680 ...besides, I'm starting to feel old. 528 01:01:42,760 --> 01:01:45,610 Perhaps you’re starting to be afraid. 529 01:01:47,970 --> 01:01:49,970 Get out of here! 530 01:01:50,050 --> 01:01:53,650 - I’m sorry, I was just kidding. - Get out, now! 531 01:01:53,730 --> 01:01:57,380 As you wish... I hope you’ll change your mind 532 01:01:57,460 --> 01:01:59,460 I doubt it. 533 01:02:09,510 --> 01:02:11,510 I hope you’ll recover soon... 534 01:02:12,650 --> 01:02:15,480 - If you would... - That’s my last decision. 535 01:02:21,250 --> 01:02:23,250 Goodbye, Mrs. Carolina. 536 01:02:31,550 --> 01:02:33,580 You treated him so harshly. 537 01:02:36,750 --> 01:02:38,750 That was nothing. 538 01:02:40,110 --> 01:02:42,850 I could have died with that bad-built car. 539 01:02:45,780 --> 01:02:48,150 I must confess you, I am happy. 540 01:02:49,450 --> 01:02:51,580 This moment had to come... 541 01:02:57,050 --> 01:02:59,050 ...give me the camera please. 542 01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:46,080 Mr. Nuvolari, is it true that you are retiring? 543 01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:48,810 Yes, it had to happen, eventually. 544 01:04:48,890 --> 01:04:53,650 You've decided after the accident, so are you suddenly afraid to die? 545 01:04:53,730 --> 01:04:58,250 No, my only fear is that Alfa Romeo could no longer compete 546 01:04:58,330 --> 01:05:01,930 with the German Mercedes and Union. 547 01:05:02,010 --> 01:05:06,580 - So I don't want to race anymore. - What are you going to do, now? 548 01:05:07,010 --> 01:05:11,750 I'm going to the States with my family, to visit New York! 549 01:06:02,180 --> 01:06:05,910 - When are we going to get there? - In a couple of hours. 550 01:06:07,250 --> 01:06:09,280 Who won the war? 551 01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:13,380 The English and American allies came to our rescue. 552 01:06:14,480 --> 01:06:16,780 During the war, everything stopped. 553 01:06:17,650 --> 01:06:22,050 It was tough, dear Leo, with all those bombs falling every day. 554 01:06:23,110 --> 01:06:26,580 - Was Nuvolari in the War too? - No. 555 01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:34,080 He endured it, as everybody else. After the armistice, in 1946, 556 01:06:34,160 --> 01:06:36,750 something bad happened to him again. 557 01:06:38,510 --> 01:06:40,680 His younger son, Alberto, died too. 558 01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:44,610 He was the same age as Giorgio, 18 years old. 559 01:06:45,710 --> 01:06:49,680 Such fatality. 560 01:07:20,550 --> 01:07:23,270 Thank you for coming, Donna Laura 561 01:07:23,350 --> 01:07:26,930 Modena is not that far, and I wanted to take a walk. 562 01:07:27,010 --> 01:07:30,850 Enzo gave me a personal driver who is taking me around. 563 01:07:33,980 --> 01:07:36,850 You sounded a bit worried at the phone. 564 01:07:40,710 --> 01:07:44,300 Tazio came back from Gardone sul Garda. 565 01:07:44,380 --> 01:07:48,750 He spent two weeks in a convent. His lungs are in a poor condition. 566 01:07:48,830 --> 01:07:51,350 The air is better there than Mantua. 567 01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:56,880 Laura... 568 01:08:00,910 --> 01:08:03,810 The real evil has been our son’s death. 569 01:08:05,810 --> 01:08:07,810 Too much pain for me, 570 01:08:10,050 --> 01:08:12,050 for him. 571 01:08:13,150 --> 01:08:15,650 I am sorry... 572 01:08:17,150 --> 01:08:19,150 Enzo and me, we are sympathetic. 573 01:08:21,910 --> 01:08:24,250 How is Mr. Ferrari? 574 01:08:24,330 --> 01:08:27,950 Well, He’s training for the Thousand Miles. 575 01:08:29,610 --> 01:08:34,110 - I wanted to talk about this... - Tell me. 576 01:08:35,050 --> 01:08:38,250 May you ask your husband if he has a car for Tazio? 577 01:08:38,330 --> 01:08:43,250 - Carolina... - I know him well, he needs to race. 578 01:08:43,330 --> 01:08:46,410 He may decide to kill himself at the Thousand Miles 579 01:08:46,490 --> 01:08:48,980 this is what every Italian thinks as well. 580 01:08:50,350 --> 01:08:54,080 Besides, it’s a very stressful race for someone of his age. 581 01:08:54,810 --> 01:08:57,250 56 years are more than a few. 582 01:08:58,150 --> 01:09:02,150 Instead, I think he’ll die if he doesn’t get back to race. 583 01:09:03,980 --> 01:09:09,080 - You'd waited for years his retire. - That is true... 584 01:09:11,110 --> 01:09:14,550 but, racing at the 1000miles would be a rebirth for him, 585 01:09:15,610 --> 01:09:17,610 I do know that. 586 01:09:18,410 --> 01:09:20,700 Nuvolari must come back. 587 01:09:20,780 --> 01:09:23,110 I want it. 588 01:09:23,180 --> 01:09:27,510 My two sons in Heaven want it... 589 01:09:29,710 --> 01:09:31,710 Italy wants it. 590 01:09:33,710 --> 01:09:36,880 Are you sure of what you’re asking me? 591 01:09:37,710 --> 01:09:40,710 Laura, we’ve been friends for a long time... 592 01:09:41,710 --> 01:09:44,480 Tazio won his best races with your husbands. 593 01:09:46,410 --> 01:09:49,980 Coming back to the Ferrari is the right thing to do. 594 01:09:52,110 --> 01:09:54,110 It will be his last race... 595 01:09:57,550 --> 01:09:59,550 Alright... 596 01:09:59,610 --> 01:10:04,610 That’s how we’ve got to our race, the mythical Thousand Miles of 1948. 597 01:10:04,690 --> 01:10:07,070 The one that made him a legend. 598 01:10:07,150 --> 01:10:10,300 Where he lost the hood we're bringing to Mantua. 599 01:10:10,380 --> 01:10:12,380 Everything’s clear, isn’t it? 600 01:10:21,410 --> 01:10:26,280 Here we have Learco Guerra! The cyclist known as the human train. 601 01:10:27,650 --> 01:10:31,630 - Come on, Tazio, stop it. - World champion in 1931, 602 01:10:31,710 --> 01:10:36,010 wonderful passer, but good with flies too! 603 01:10:36,100 --> 01:10:39,150 Standing in front of the best driver in the world! 604 01:10:39,230 --> 01:10:43,650 Two old folks close to pension. 605 01:10:49,310 --> 01:10:51,980 What about your passion for photography? 606 01:10:55,150 --> 01:10:57,150 When I take pictures 607 01:10:57,230 --> 01:11:00,250 I can feel the same speed of when I held the wheel 608 01:11:01,980 --> 01:11:06,680 and I perceive the power of this little machine in my hands. 609 01:11:08,910 --> 01:11:11,810 I think I had to become a photographer 610 01:11:12,850 --> 01:11:17,450 to truly understand all the beauty and happiness of being a driver. 611 01:11:20,550 --> 01:11:22,550 Mrs. Nuvolari? 612 01:11:25,980 --> 01:11:27,980 Yes? 613 01:11:29,410 --> 01:11:33,480 I’ve tried to talk to your husband but he’s never replied. 614 01:11:34,380 --> 01:11:36,900 I would like you to have this, 615 01:11:36,980 --> 01:11:39,580 if you’d be so kind to read it, please. 616 01:11:40,710 --> 01:11:42,710 What is it? 617 01:11:43,210 --> 01:11:45,430 Please, read it as you get home. 618 01:11:45,510 --> 01:11:50,410 I thought you should know... not for me, but for my daughter... 619 01:11:51,580 --> 01:11:53,580 Your daughter? 620 01:11:54,710 --> 01:11:56,950 Read it, and you’ll understand. 621 01:13:55,010 --> 01:13:57,010 You’ve cheated on me, Tazio. 622 01:14:00,950 --> 01:14:03,210 You... disgust me. 623 01:14:07,650 --> 01:14:10,550 She’s crazy! I’ve never met her! 624 01:14:10,630 --> 01:14:12,970 You have a daughter. 625 01:14:13,050 --> 01:14:17,110 - It’s impossible! I don't know her! - What is this? 626 01:14:18,980 --> 01:14:21,980 You bastard... Bastard! 627 01:14:22,060 --> 01:14:25,280 Bastard! Bastard! 628 01:14:50,700 --> 01:14:52,700 Look what the cat dragged in... 629 01:14:52,780 --> 01:14:56,110 You are indestructible with your cars, as I’ve seen. 630 01:15:01,210 --> 01:15:04,570 How long has it been? 631 01:15:04,650 --> 01:15:06,650 30 years, at least. 632 01:15:09,850 --> 01:15:13,880 How comes you’re coming back to ruin my family making up stories? 633 01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:16,510 I’ve written the truth... Ugolina! 634 01:15:19,150 --> 01:15:22,900 Look, Ugolina, did you want to meet your father? 635 01:15:22,980 --> 01:15:25,580 Here he is, the famous Tazio Nuvolari! 636 01:15:30,380 --> 01:15:32,750 That night I got pregnant... 637 01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:40,880 I cannot believe you. 638 01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:44,000 I don’t want anything from you, you can even leave 639 01:15:44,080 --> 01:15:46,110 but you just had to know. 640 01:15:49,510 --> 01:15:52,550 Swear to God you are telling the truth! 641 01:15:53,310 --> 01:15:57,310 May I drown in the deepest hell if Ugolina isn't your daughter! 642 01:16:08,080 --> 01:16:11,250 I didn’t know anything about it! 643 01:16:11,330 --> 01:16:15,180 That was me... I just wanted to know... 644 01:16:31,210 --> 01:16:33,480 So I really pushed my mother! 645 01:16:50,310 --> 01:16:52,780 Leave us alone for a moment, please. 646 01:17:00,210 --> 01:17:03,570 Get inside the car with me, we need to talk. 647 01:17:03,650 --> 01:17:08,650 No, if you want, we can take a walk... 648 01:17:11,510 --> 01:17:16,350 Kind of a twist of fate, your wife and me having the same name. 649 01:17:21,950 --> 01:17:24,830 Listen, Carolina, what could I do now? 650 01:17:24,910 --> 01:17:27,650 Nothing. I don’t want anything from you. 651 01:17:27,730 --> 01:17:31,950 I only did it for Ugolina, she wanted to see you in person 652 01:17:33,050 --> 01:17:36,110 and I thought it was the right thing for her. 653 01:17:37,050 --> 01:17:41,530 She is married and mom of a 16 years old child. 654 01:17:41,610 --> 01:17:44,850 He’s in the fields, working with his dad now. 655 01:17:46,950 --> 01:17:49,850 I have another man, working on the river Po. 656 01:17:52,150 --> 01:17:56,550 He's like a father to her, and loves her like his own daughter. 657 01:18:06,180 --> 01:18:08,630 Do you want money? 658 01:18:08,710 --> 01:18:10,950 So it is true... 659 01:18:11,030 --> 01:18:14,710 ...that champions suck in real life! 660 01:18:17,450 --> 01:18:21,950 Do you realize you’ve just destroyed my marriage? 661 01:18:23,550 --> 01:18:27,950 What you did today is enough for me. Coming here. 662 01:18:31,790 --> 01:18:36,780 I’ll write to her that I was lying and I’ve made up everything. 663 01:18:47,430 --> 01:18:49,430 Carolina... 664 01:18:49,510 --> 01:18:53,810 I’d loved you for years after you disappeared. 665 01:18:55,310 --> 01:19:00,650 I’ve been your silent lover for months and raised your daughter, 666 01:19:00,730 --> 01:19:03,580 what do you want from me yet? 667 01:19:05,710 --> 01:19:10,250 Would you ever forgive me? I didn’t know anything. 668 01:19:17,780 --> 01:19:19,780 I’ll give an annuity to Ugolina. 669 01:19:21,350 --> 01:19:23,750 As you may know, my sons died. 670 01:19:29,550 --> 01:19:33,810 Leave, please... Go away! 671 01:20:29,450 --> 01:20:32,750 I have wife and a child.. at home. 672 01:20:33,980 --> 01:20:36,510 You are afraid of racing with Nuvolari! 673 01:20:38,150 --> 01:20:41,030 Mr. Ferrari, you know what people say about him 674 01:20:41,110 --> 01:20:43,310 After his second son’s death 675 01:20:44,310 --> 01:20:46,830 he wants to die racing. 676 01:20:46,910 --> 01:20:49,080 Do not believe this rubbish... 677 01:20:50,510 --> 01:20:55,210 Listen, I’ll give you a bonus at the starting, 678 01:20:56,810 --> 01:21:00,250 and another one when it’s over. 679 01:21:01,810 --> 01:21:03,810 Besides, you’ll have an insurance 680 01:21:03,890 --> 01:21:07,110 that if anything really goes wrong with Nuvolari, 681 01:21:08,250 --> 01:21:12,480 your wife and child will get 30 thousands liras... 682 01:21:14,110 --> 01:21:17,850 instead, if nothing goes wrong, 683 01:21:17,930 --> 01:21:22,880 you will be fine for two years at least, 684 01:21:22,960 --> 01:21:25,480 thanks to all the money I’ll pay you. 685 01:21:29,850 --> 01:21:33,310 Come on, Scapinelli! This is the chance of a lifetime! 686 01:21:34,310 --> 01:21:38,250 How often do you get to race beside a living legend! 687 01:21:38,330 --> 01:21:41,300 That was 688 01:21:41,380 --> 01:21:45,450 To let Nuvolari back on race again at the age of 56. 689 01:22:23,480 --> 01:22:26,670 Pull over somewhere, let’s see what we can do! 690 01:22:26,750 --> 01:22:29,980 No! It’ll fall out in any case. 691 01:22:34,210 --> 01:22:37,850 {\an8}Behind the wheel of the Ferrari 1049 692 01:22:37,930 --> 01:22:40,010 {\an8}Tazio Nuvolari is leading... 693 01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:46,250 {\an8}The fearless flying Mantuan is back greater than ever... 694 01:22:47,250 --> 01:22:51,050 {\an8}20 minutes behind him there's Biondetti 695 01:22:51,130 --> 01:22:53,880 {\an8}who's driving a Ferrari car, too. 696 01:22:56,710 --> 01:22:59,750 {\an8}Nuvolari, beside his old friend Scarpinelli, 697 01:22:59,830 --> 01:23:04,510 {\an8}he’s becoming a legend with an incredible hourly average...126! 698 01:23:08,910 --> 01:23:13,280 {\an8}The whole Italy is moved. 699 01:23:13,360 --> 01:23:17,950 {\an8}Attention! Nuvolari is leading the Thousand Miles! 700 01:23:18,510 --> 01:23:22,450 {\an8}When they arrive to Rigali of Gualdo Tadino, at the 184th km, 701 01:23:22,530 --> 01:23:26,270 {\an8}there were rumors about Nuvolari being on the first place... 702 01:23:26,350 --> 01:23:30,010 {\an8}the Ferrari is like a catapult. 703 01:23:30,090 --> 01:23:34,270 {\an8}With its engine at full regime, the fender falls out. 704 01:23:34,350 --> 01:23:36,350 {\an8}The wind hits it 705 01:23:36,430 --> 01:23:40,750 {\an8}and before moving vertically on the left side of the car, 706 01:23:40,830 --> 01:23:43,330 {\an8}the engine cover crushes the windscreen. 707 01:23:44,250 --> 01:23:46,610 Push it!! let it fall out!! 708 01:23:46,690 --> 01:23:49,850 Not now! If it stops we’ll push it away. 709 01:24:01,750 --> 01:24:05,850 {\an8}In that moment the whole Italy is moved, everyone is crying 710 01:24:05,930 --> 01:24:08,510 {\an8}because they know that, 711 01:24:08,590 --> 01:24:12,170 {\an8}probably, it will be his last race. 712 01:24:12,250 --> 01:24:15,380 Let me check, I hear a noise in the transmission. 713 01:24:15,460 --> 01:24:18,280 No, We’ll check it out in Reggio Emilia... 714 01:26:28,280 --> 01:26:30,450 Come over here Leo, come here! 715 01:26:30,530 --> 01:26:34,780 You might be wondering why we pulled over here... 716 01:26:34,850 --> 01:26:38,250 An important thing of our history happened here! 717 01:26:38,330 --> 01:26:41,010 Right here, in this place! 718 01:26:41,090 --> 01:26:44,510 There you go! Nobody heard from him for hours 719 01:26:44,590 --> 01:26:49,150 after he was pointed out at the head of the racing 720 01:26:49,230 --> 01:26:53,050 but here is where... 721 01:26:53,130 --> 01:26:55,380 ...Nuvolari finished his race. 722 01:28:02,150 --> 01:28:04,300 It’s over! 723 01:28:04,380 --> 01:28:08,610 The leaf spring collapsed. 724 01:28:12,150 --> 01:28:14,150 It’s a pity... 725 01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:17,680 you were the first, 726 01:28:19,110 --> 01:28:21,410 and Biondetti was very far... 727 01:28:26,580 --> 01:28:28,580 Where is he? 728 01:28:29,680 --> 01:28:34,280 Inside the rectory, with the priest. 729 01:29:08,910 --> 01:29:11,150 Tazio, come on, 730 01:29:12,410 --> 01:29:14,500 next year you’ll make it! 731 01:29:14,580 --> 01:29:16,580 Ferrari... 732 01:29:17,950 --> 01:29:21,710 we don’t get to have days like this at our age. 733 01:29:23,910 --> 01:29:25,910 Remember this, 734 01:29:27,050 --> 01:29:29,310 and taste them till the last bite, 735 01:29:33,910 --> 01:29:35,910 if you can. 736 01:30:46,950 --> 01:30:48,950 Father! 737 01:31:11,410 --> 01:31:13,410 What has Padre Pio told you? 738 01:31:15,710 --> 01:31:17,710 Nothing... 739 01:31:19,410 --> 01:31:21,410 to have faith... 740 01:31:32,080 --> 01:31:35,210 We have faith...we do have faith... 741 01:33:08,650 --> 01:33:13,650 {\an8}Nuvolari had survived in each race he participated. He died at home 742 01:33:13,770 --> 01:33:18,550 {\an8}arounded by all the trophies he won in his llife. 743 01:33:18,630 --> 01:33:22,170 {\an8}Nuvolari was stroke by a serious pulmonary illness 744 01:33:22,250 --> 01:33:27,250 {\an8}both his children, who died too young, can now see him again 745 01:33:27,330 --> 01:33:29,330 {\an8}wearing his legendary uniform. 746 01:33:29,410 --> 01:33:33,250 {\an8}His wife will never see him anymore. 747 01:33:33,330 --> 01:33:37,350 {\an8}His friends Villoresi, Ascari, Fangio, Masetti and Guerra 748 01:33:37,430 --> 01:33:41,480 {\an8}are pushing the last car on which Tazio lies. 749 01:33:42,310 --> 01:33:45,480 {\an8}He was the last one of a generation of champions 750 01:33:45,530 --> 01:33:48,850 {\an8}among Maserati, Campari, Varzi, Materazzi 751 01:33:48,930 --> 01:33:53,180 {\an8}who died before him, but Tazio has been able to extend his race 752 01:33:54,210 --> 01:33:56,650 {\an8}and now can enjoy his victory 753 01:33:56,730 --> 01:34:00,910 {\an8}driving his own car to peacefully reach Heaven. 754 01:34:10,100 --> 01:34:12,100 - Good morning! - Good morning! 755 01:34:12,180 --> 01:34:16,150 - I need to talk to the director. - What about? 756 01:34:16,230 --> 01:34:21,100 We have the hood Nuvolari lost during the 1948 Thousand Miles. 757 01:34:21,180 --> 01:34:23,180 I was the boy who found it... 758 01:34:23,260 --> 01:34:27,150 - What are you saying? - We have it in the car outside. 759 01:34:40,410 --> 01:34:42,410 I wish I’d met him. 760 01:34:44,480 --> 01:34:48,780 Do you know what he said before leaving this world? 761 01:34:49,780 --> 01:34:51,700 What? 762 01:34:51,780 --> 01:34:55,880 I wish I could hear the engine roaring for the last time. 763 01:35:33,550 --> 01:35:36,550 TAZIO NUVLARI DIED IN HIS BED 764 01:35:36,630 --> 01:35:39,950 - THE 11 - TH AUGUST 1953, AT THE AGE OF 61 765 01:35:42,350 --> 01:35:45,350 CAROLINA PERINA DIED HIT BY A CAR 766 01:35:45,430 --> 01:35:48,910 IN GARDONE SUL GARDA IN 1981, AT THE AGE OF 87. 767 01:35:51,050 --> 01:35:54,050 ACHILLE VARZI BROKE UP WITH ILSE HUBACH 768 01:35:54,130 --> 01:35:57,130 AND MARRIED NORMA COLOMBO - THE 27 - TH JULY 1940. 769 01:35:57,210 --> 01:36:00,210 HE DIED AFTER HAVE LOST CONTROL OF HIS ALFETTA 770 01:36:00,290 --> 01:36:03,180 DURING A TEST FOR THE BERN GRAND PRIX. 771 01:36:05,780 --> 01:36:09,780 ENZO ANSELMO FERRARI DIED - THE 14 - TH AUGUST 1988 AT THE AGE OF 90. 772 01:36:09,860 --> 01:36:13,860 HE WAS AN ITALIAN MOTOR RACING DRIVER AND ENTREPRENEUR 773 01:36:13,940 --> 01:36:17,940 THE FOUNDER OF THE SCUDERIA FERRARI GRAND PRIX MOTOR RACING TEAM 774 01:36:18,020 --> 01:36:22,020 AND SUBSEQUENTLY OF THE FERRARI AUTOMOBILE MARQUE 775 01:36:22,100 --> 01:36:26,100 WHICH HAS WON 9 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS WITH HIM 776 01:36:26,180 --> 01:36:29,610 15 IN TOTAL TIL NOW.