Who was the protégé and favourite pupil of Tazio Nuvolari? One of the pioneers of driving with outstretched hands?
Brave and temerarious, he was involved in many accidents. Some actually summed up his hospitalisation days… they are something like 1800!
Lehoux and Laszlo Hartmann were involved in a collision with this bold driver. As well as the public in Spain, Czechoslovakia and Buenos Aires.

He drove in an excessively reckless manner also in the trips that he took for pleasure, his exuberance was out of control. On his own, he left from his residence in Monte Carlo and he ended up off the road in Chambery. It was his last trip.
He grew up amongst cars, he started driving his father’s Temperino at nine years old. His career started with a Chiribiri, in a hill race, when he was 19. Before the war, he raced as a private driver, afterwards, he raced for the Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Maserati teams.
He came second at the 1936 Mille Miglia, with an Alfa Romeo 8C 3000, he never managed to win this race. He won in Mar del Plata, at the rise of the Temporada Sudamericana.

In 1950, Alfa Romeo built the team of the three F’s, (Farina, Fangio, Fagioli). On that year, he won his first world championship. In 1953, with the Ferrari team, he won the thrilling race at the Nürburgring. Alberto Ascari lost one wheel, as well as his first position. He was fourth and he managed to surpass Fangio and Hawthorn and he won.
His father and uncle owned the “Carrozzeria Farina”. When they split up, his uncle used a lower case “f” and he became the famous “Pinin” Farina.
Nino Farina.