STANDARD MOTOR OIL RACER. HUILES DES GRANDS PRIX ACHILLE VARZI

Antique vintage posters from RUDEMAN Dolly
( 1902 - 1980 )

Asking reference: 14934

Printer, Edition, Brands, Fondeur : J.V. BOEKHOVEN UTRECHT AMSTERDAM DEN HAAG

Weight: 0.40 (Kg)

Creation date: 1934

Size: 26.2 X 38 (inches) / 66.5 x 96.5 (cm)

Condition backing / Material :Linen (backed on acid-free paper and cotton canvas)

Condition: A- ( fine )

Price: On demand

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Very rare poster for Standard oil, RACER engine.

It represents one of the most famous drivers of the Scuderia Ferrari from 1934, resembling Achille Varzi race pilot.

Achille Varzi, born August 8, 1904 in Galliate in the Kingdom of Italy and died July 1, 1948 in Bremgarten bei Bern in Switzerland, is an Italian racing driver and motorcyclist. Considered one of the best drivers of the interwar period, Achille Varzi remains famous both for his driving style known to be very safe and for his rivalry with Tazio Nuvolari.

Coming from a wealthy family, Varzi discovered motorcycle racing in 1921, at the age of seventeen; he won his first race the following year and became Italian motorcycle speed champion in the 350 cc category in 1923. Varzi and Nuvolari, whom he became friends with, quickly established themselves as stars of the discipline. Varzi won another Italian championship title, in 500 cc, in 1926.

In 1928, Varzi and Nuvolari entered motor racing with the Scuderia Nuvolari. Beaten more and more often by Nuvolari, Varzi left the team and bought an Alfa Romeo P2 which allowed him to regain the upper hand in 1929.

The following year, he won a major victory at the Targa Florio, the first for an Italian car in five years in this event. During the year, on a Maserati, he won the Italian drivers' championship and kept the advantage over Nuvolari.

The 1931 season saw the creation of the European Drivers' Championship. Varzi, an official Bugatti driver, won the French Grand Prix with Louis Chiron and finished sixth in the championship.

Varzi, loyal to Bugatti until 1933, joined Scuderia Ferrari in 1934 and won six times.

At the dawn of the 1935 season, for the resumption of the European Drivers' Championship, the Auto Union consortium recruited him. He met Ilse Pietsch, the wife of his teammate Paul Pietsch, who became his mistress. A victim of the propaganda led by the Rome-Berlin axis during the 1936 Tripoli Grand Prix and introduced to morphine by his mistress, he fell into drugs. He moved away from the circuits and only competed in four races between 1937 and 1938.