Tuesday, 4 November 2008

Mille Miglia 1954 - Ascari's fans



Pencil on archival white paper, digitally colorized 12"x 9"
© Paul Chenard 2008

Son of a famous Italian racing hero Antonio Ascari, two-time World Champion Alberto Ascari moved to the Lancia Racing Team from Ferrari for 1954, but the Lancia's Formla 1 cars were under-developed, and not really in contention.

Ascari did find success in the well-developed D24 sports car, winning the grueling Mille Miglia (Thousand Mile) race.

In the following year, the Lancia D50 Formula 1 was again raced by Ascari, but retired in the 2 first races. In fact, he lost control and ended up in Monaco Harbour in that Grand Prix.

Four days later, he was killed testing a Ferrari Monza sports car; Italy lost another one of it's great racers. He died at the age of 36, like his father.
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4 comments:

  1. 3VOR14 November 2008 at 05:47

    Ciao,
    lo sai che apprezzo il tuo lavoro, perchè non crei qualche tua opera inerente la F1 moderna?
    (scusa la traduzione pessima)

    Hello,
    you know that I appreciate your work, why not create your work somehow related to modern F1?
    (excuse the bad translation)

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  2. Automobiliart.com14 November 2008 at 13:44

    I am getting ready to do a Lewis Hamilton/Graham Hill British Monaco win celebration illustration.
    Ciao!

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  3. 3VOR15 November 2008 at 02:56

    Grazie, anche se preferivo qualcosa di Rosso, tipo Ferrari :)

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  4. Automobiliart.com15 November 2008 at 07:30

    Translation:
    Thanks, even if I preferred something of Red, Ferrari type :)

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