1,000 Greatest Drivers: Giuseppe Campari
I know this was not the savviest time to release my daily column...
I know almost no one will likely read this since I wrote this during the debate and Campari is now rather obscure, but although I pushed this right up to the line, I still got it finished just before midnight and although I had done a lot of research on him before, I still wasn’t informed enough to write this until today. For one thing, I had stated in yesterday’s column that he died in the Italian GP and I didn’t realize he died in the Monza GP, which was a different race. I now have my facts straight though, and I definitely want to acknowledge this period because while some of the drivers from this era like Tazio Nuvolari, Bernd Rosemeyer, and Rudolf Caracciola are fairly well-known, a lot of them have unfairly fallen into obscurity and that’s unfortunate, especially because Alfa Romeo (the company he made famous) is still around today and participated in F1 as recently as last year. Nonetheless, even though I definitely had never heard of him myself before I started this project, I think I’ve done him justice here. The season ratings for all drivers from this era are very approximate and I’ll likely tinker with them a lot.
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