Pre-war hero Achille Varzi died on this day in 1948. The ice-cold racer sent shivers down the spine of his competitors, but struggled with his own demons – Nigel Roebuck tells his story in today's Great Read
I remember talking to a driver just out of hospital after a major accident. He was recovering well, but for a while, his pain had been so acute that they had given him morphine. "If I'm ever in that situation again," he said, "I will do without it. Nothing was as bad as going cold turkey when they stopped the morphine." I was reminded of Achille Varzi, whose career was swept away in that same tide.
"In those times," Enzo Ferrari said of the early 1930s, "the outstanding man was Nuvolari. But he had a worthy adversary in Varzi, who surpassed him in his cool, perfect, style..."
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