1935 Alfa Romeo P3 Tipo B - 3.2-Litre Straight-eight Supercharged Engine - Goodwood FOS 2019

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

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[@jcgabriel1569]

Right, this just went in, and I'm sure you'll like it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJTLh2qIeb-jaq8

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

@@jcgabriel1569 This video is awesome; how much I love the supercharged engine sound! From this onboard, I can only imagine the effort that the drivers had to make to race with these cars. Nothing was easy, and everything seemed tiring, moving the gearbox, turning the steering wheel, braking, trying to get the car to stay on the road and all these operations while competing with the other opponents.

[@jcgabriel1569]

@@Italiansupercarvideo One better thing from the video is the fact that they said it is being tested in preparation for a race at Goodwood! I can't wait to see and hear that booming straight-8, even if only on the KZbin livestream! The car in the clip, would you believe, is a new car built from a cache of parts found in Italy. That makes it the second Alfetta to have officially escaped the Alfa Romeo factory. One had been swapped with the 8C 2900 Le Mans Berlinetta back in the 1980s. In the last few minutes of the clip, we can actually see a slight glimpse of the true power of the Alfetta, Good thing is, the driver, Willie Green, had a good experience in driving an Alfetta fast, having raced the other car in the 1990s!

[@barondegil1]

@@jcgabriel1569 Hello! I also love pre-war straight eight-cylinder Alfas. Your comments come across to me under various videos about Alphas and they contain interesting information, thank you. In this case, you probably made a mistake in the comment? After all, there is no Alfetta in this clip, only P3.

[@Loulovesspeed]

@@Italiansupercarvideo - Yes, racing this car was not easy, with the exception of a few gifted drivers like Tazio Nuvolari. He always looked quite relaxed while behind the wheel, a sign that he had confidence in his driving abilities as well as confidence in the car itself!

[@johanbennelov7237]

I just can’t stop listening on this magnificent car! Among Daytona coupe and the 935 it must be the best sounding and looking car from it’s era! ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@frankmcgorman962]

Graceful and ferocious at the same time. It must have taken an immense amount of skill and courage to drive these machines at full speed!

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

The pilot drove it fast enough; I enjoyed his rides at Goodwood. But I can only imagine the drivers who were racing with these cars at the time, real heroes👍

[@jcgabriel1569]

Yeah, especially if we consider that the P3 is the fastest GP car that still used non-independent suspension all around. It can go to speeds above 170mph...

[@Loulovesspeed]

@@jcgabriel1569 - Sorry mate, but the top speed of the P3 was 144 mph, still very fast for its time, but nowhere near 170!

[@jcgabriel1569]

@@Loulovesspeed Sorry, but Louis Chiron was timed doing 169mph driving one down the Monte Silvano straight at the Coppa Acerbo in 1934. And he's driving a 2.9 litre car. At the same race, an 8C Monza was timed doing 140mph. Nuvolari (driving a Maserati 8CM), and Antonio Brivio (driving a Bugatti Type 59) both clocked 150 mph. And, as an added note, there was an intermittent crosswind blowing across the straight, making driving at top speed difficult, and ultimately, may have played a major role in Guy Moll's fatal accident in another P3 at the last stages of the race. So, chances are, even with those numbers, the drivers are actually not fully committing to the fullest because of the crosswind. The only way for a P3 to top out at 144mph would be to use a lower gear and final drive ratio, and, if it's a 2.9 or a 3.2 litre version, possibly even use smaller diameter rear tires.

[@Loulovesspeed]

@@jcgabriel1569 - Well, I won't play tit for tat with you, but I will say that I have quoted (3) different very reliable sources for motor racing specs, performance, etc., and ALL 3 list 144 mph as top speed of this 1934 GP car, 2.6 liter supercharged, twin cam straight eight with 3 speed trans.

[@orangeutan39]

The most emotional brand ever. Forza Alfa Romeo

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

You're right 👍

[@clubsport9334]

Straight 8 sound so good.

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

Oh yes 👍

[@jcgabriel1569]

I have read a test drive of one of this cars somewhere, and basically what the author said about straight-8 engines ; they don't make these anymore, and of all the best were from Alfa Romeo, and the best straight-8 Alfa Romeos were those created by Vittorio Jano...

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

@@jcgabriel1569 I agree, the quality of the Alfa Romeo racing engines and cars of those years was amazing, in my opinion, it was unrivalled. I remember that Alfa-Romeo at that time also built very reliable radial aircraft engines 👍

[@jcgabriel1569]

@@Italiansupercarvideo I have read that they also made a publicity stunt. To show that their aircraft engines were good, they raced an aeroplane against Tazio Nuvolari in an Alfa Romeo Monza round the old Littorio circuit in rome in the early 30s. Must have been a photo finish, since it's Nuvolari at the wheel!!!

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

@@jcgabriel1569 I knew nothing about this race, all fascinating, thanks for this information 👍

[@robertoferrigato1998]

La macchina del grande Nuvolari!!!

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

Le mitiche Alfa da corsa 👍

[@bossboss787]

Alfa Romeo: la grande nobile e gloriosa!

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

La storia dell'automobilismo sportivo 👍

[@jcgabriel1569]

Bloody hell, I've got to see this, since the Alfa Romeo P3 is my absolute favourite!!! The driver, James Wood, is driving the wheels off the Alfa!!! It seems that nowadays, there were only three of these glorious cars were definitely driven in anger; this car (with James Wood at the wheel), Matt Grist's car (Won at Monaco Historics 2014) and Christian Glasel's car (won at Goodwood Member's Meeting 2017).

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

Wow, thanks for the info 👍

[@jcgabriel1569]

@@Italiansupercarvideo back in the 1960s-1980s, apparently there were more faster drivers in these cars. At a historic race at Rouen in 1966, Bill Summers caused a stir as he flogged his P3 down the straights faster than the then-F2 cars, basically he's blasting down the straights at 160-170mph, all the more impressive as he's running a hastily-prepared spare engine as he broke the original one... In the 1970s-1980s, David Black and Rodney Felton would also routinely harass and beat the ERAs with their P3s, and there's also Bill Summers again, this time using an ex-Nuvolari Maserati 6C-34. There's actually a video here in KZbin somewhere of a historic race at Silverstone in the 1990s. The cameraman is mostly concentrating on ERAs fighting for second place, but the lead car, Rodney Felton's P3, is never challenged, the only telltale sign that he's there is the _very angry_ sound of the P3 as it passes the camera!

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

@@jcgabriel1569 All very interesting what you say. The P3 must have been a crazy car, way ahead of its era in terms of performance, so much so that a strong pilot was capable of incredible results.

[@jcgabriel1569]

@@Italiansupercarvideo Thing is, in today's historic racing with cars like these, things were in favour of the smaller Voiturettes like the Maserati 6CM and 4CLs, and especially the ERAs. The ERAs, for example, had been racing continuously ever since, and as a result, benefited a lot from performance tweaks done over the years, fitting a bigger 2 litre engine (compared to the 1.5 litres they used in Voiturette class, but still period correct) also allowed even more power. Add the fact that most tracks now were more technical and with shorter straights, which favours the agile old Voiturettes more than the older GP cars. So, all those times that the old GP cars like the P3 and the Maserati 8CMs managing to fight the more agile 6CMs and ERAs were quite something. That's why the Monaco Historique win of Matt Grist in 2014 in his P3 is a big thing for me. Monaco, as you know, is very twisty. Matt Grist is only second fastest in qualifying, with ERAs on pole, third and fourth on the grid. But on race day, he excelled himself, not only going faster than his qualifying time, but also going faster than the pole time! He did pass the lead ERA and lead the race to the end.

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

@@jcgabriel1569 Youìre right; Matt Grist accomplished a feat with that car in Monaco.

[@VideoDotGoogleDotCom]

0:27 "I wish these cars would stop running, so I could concentrate on looking at nothing in the distance."

[@jcgabriel1569]

Oh, as an added note. That particular car's paintjob looks quite different. And that's because it apparently still wears the same paint, and race number it had when it last competed in Indianapolis!!!

[@KootBear]

very cool and amazing performance for 1930's

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

Oh yeah, absolutely 👍

[@pascalkal792]

Varzi ,Nuvolari and many others had one common denominator : balls of steel.

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

Oh yessss 💪👍

[@jcgabriel1569]

Can I request something? Do you, by any chance, have footage of Julian Majzub driving his Bugatti Type 35? We all know his daredevil driving via Goodwood's official channel, but it would be nice to see his driving from your viewing angles, along with the raw sounds!.

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

Meanwhile, thank you for this request. I have a lot of video material regarding the Goodwood FOS, and in the coming months, I will release other videos before the 2020 edition. I have to check how many clips I have available related to this pilot and his car. If the clips are enough to create a video, I can think of doing it 😉👍

[@AMV12S]

Sounds like a Muscle Car

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

In its way, it's a muscle car from the 1930s 😉

[@NFSracers1]

Vorrei tanto guidarla, molto più di tutte le supercar di oggi.

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

Hai assolutamente ragione. Leggevo la storia di questo modello ed è stata strepitosa la sua evoluzione dal 1932 la cilindrata iniziò a crescere ed arrivò al 1936, ultimo anno di produzione (con 15 esemplari in tutto) ad oltre 300cv (alcuni scrissero 330cv) dai 215cv di partenza. Doppio compressore Roots, arrivò a supera i 270Km/h. Non oso immaginare cosa fosse vedere un'auto del genere guidata da Nuvolari. Alfa Romeo era avanti anni luce e quei piloti erano veri eroi.

[@emanuelefasanofasano3814]

I remember once reading Enzo Ferrari saying about the big American Banger engines in Can Am having huge carbs so he had installed wine bottle sized carbs in his 612 and 712 Can Am cars but he was just being sarcastic because he had the Alfa Monsters and this monster well before them the joke was on them

[@RollerGuideX]

Does anybody know the paint color/code for this car? Building a cyclekart using this as the inspiration car :)

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

You could not have chosen a better car to inspire your project. Congratulations. I'm sorry, but I can't give you an answer, I don't know how to help you.

[@jcgabriel1569]

It would be quite problematic to get this colour right, since the car had its original, faded and worn out paint. Unless you can make a new paintwork look very old and well used. I think the best thing to do is just try to research the history of Italy's Rosso Corsa, and use the colour code that corresponds to the colour used in the time of this car (1932-35)

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

@@jcgabriel1569 I think this is a good way of working.

[@ahrred3127]

Why Alfa Romeo Stop Competing In Big Event?

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

Let's remember that the Alfa Romeo won the first Formula 1 championship. In those years the Italian brand was too superior to all the others, so far that it retired because there was no competition. Then as we also know the other manufacturers over time became competitive, the Afa-Romeo decided to use its resources and energy in the prototype championships with great victories and then in more recent times with the superturismo and DTM. Unfortunately, there has been a long period of more than 20 years in recent times when Alfa-Romeo has not actively participated in the races. Alfa-Romeo returning now (unfortunately not in the DTM) and we will see what they can do. With Ferrari in the FCA group, I don't know how many resources are available for racing....

[@jcgabriel1569]

And to top it all off, yes they did win the first two F1 World Driver's Championship (1950 with Giuseppe "Nino" Farina and 1951 with none other than Juan Manuel Fangio). But what's even more incredible in that is the car they used, the Alfa Romeo 158 (upgraded and named 159) "Alfetta" is already a 13 year-old car!!!

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

@@jcgabriel1569 Exactly. If you do a research, among the admirers and lovers of racing cars, the Alfetta 159 and the Maserati 250F are both considered two F1 milestones for their incredible performance, driveability (obviously for the time) and reliability. What a wonderful time that was! 👍

[@jcgabriel1569]

After they won the first two World Championships in 1950 and 1951, Alfa Romeo stopped competing because they didn't really have any more money to spend to develop and make a new car, the car they used to win those two WCs, the 158 and 159 "Alfetta", were basically, from 1938!!! And if they would attempt to continue using the car, they would definitely be beaten by new designs such as Ferrari's 375. So obviously, they decided that the best thing for their company's honour would be to stop at the top of the game, rather than cotinue and get beaten up.

[@upsidedowndog1256]

Enzo was in charge of that race team, wasn't he?

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

Yes, those were the years when Enzo Ferrari was in charge of the Afa-Romeo racing team, and Nuvolari was the pilot to beat

[@upsidedowndog1256]

@@Italiansupercarvideo They never have seem to recover from both of their not not being at ALFA. Pity. I wish Kimi great luck at this new version.

[@Italiansupercarvideo]

@@upsidedowndog1256 I also wish Kimi the best, he's a great driver, but currently, the Sauber-AlfaRomeo is not yet at the level of the best teams.

[@howardlake6178]

Whilst at Alfa Romeo around this time, Enzo achieved 200.38mph in a twin engined car. I think it had 2 of these motors in a line 💚🤍❤

[@thefirstbushman]

Straight from tintin!