00:07In Europa, Alfa Romeo sports car drivers continue to shine.
00:14The Mille Miglia is a fabulous race over a thousand miles of the open roads,
00:19when the hazards that face each driver are equal only to those braved by the enthusiastic spectators.
00:28It is in the great tradition of the early city-to-city event.
00:34It is an achievement to finish, and if the car won't hold together, you must lend it a hand.
00:43Where else could you possibly see a car during a race being refueled by coal?
01:01Nuvolari is one of the immortals of the Mille Miglia, winning the race this year for the second time.
01:07Last year he was champion of Italy, but the official withdrawal of Alfa Romeo with all their P3s is disastrous
01:13to his racing career.
01:25It is his rival, Wazzi, on the Bugatti who wins at Monaco.
01:36Wazzi wins again at Crippolo.
01:42When Wazzi's Bugatti wins in Berlin, the Nazis have just come to power.
01:47Adolf Hitler is here to see the Italian flag raised in triumph,
01:51and lets it be known that he will award half a million Reichmarks for a successful German Grand Prix car.
02:00In the French Grand Prix, Nuvolari rockets into the lead.
02:13But Nuvolari's car is a now outdated Monza Alfa, and as so often this season, it is to fail him.
02:27All the same, the winning car is Italian, a Maserati driven by Campari.
02:33This is Campari's greatest race, and he takes the opportunity to announce that this will be his last season.
02:39In future, he hopes to give more time to his other great loves, grand opera and good food.
02:48For the Italian Grand Prix, Nuvolari gives up the Alfa just as Ferrari gets hold of some P3s.
02:57All the same, Nuvolari, now on a Maserati, nearly wins,
03:01only to lose the race in the last laps when he has to change a burst tire.
03:07A P3 Alfa is first with Fagioli driving.
03:12Late on this same day, Campari brings out his Alfa for a minor race before his retirement.
03:19On the south bend, there is a patch of oil.
03:23Both Zaccini and Campari are both killed.
03:26The Italian newsreels salute them for the last time.
03:34So far in the threadbare thirties, no Grand Prix cars have been built outside France and Italy.
03:39But people are getting a lot of pleasure with small sports cars.
03:55Others take their fun on the sands and find they bump into all sorts of people.
04:03On the new circuit at Donington Park,
04:05the enthusiast who likes to do his own last-minute tuning gets his chance.
04:28All this is given a great boost by the cheap and popular MG sports cars.
04:36So it isn't surprising to find Nuvolari himself in Belfast,
04:39trying one out in the tourist trophy
04:41and giving it a glamour every bit equal to that of the British Prime Minister.
04:54The small MG midgets have three-lap start,
04:58while Nuvolari's class with the larger-engined MG magnets only get one lap.
05:03The Alphas and Invictors are on scratch.
05:19Nuvolari is soon way ahead of the rest of his class,
05:22but so is a wild, dark Irishman, Hugh Hamilton, on a midget.
05:35Before long, it is clear that the Irishman is leading the world-famous Italian by seconds
05:39and looks like winning.
05:46Nuvolari is still behind
05:47when Hamilton comes in for a disastrously slow pit stop.
05:53It becomes another national crisis
05:55as Nuvolari takes the lead.
06:03Nuvolari comes through to win the tourist trophy for the second time.
06:07specialmente per il molto pubblico che assiste a questa gara
06:11che sono molto sportivi.
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