Taken from Motor Sport, March 2021

For 27 years it sat – up on blocks, under a cover – in his mother’s suburban garage: last in line of an evocative motor-sporting bloodstock… a full works grand prix Alfa Romeo, designed, built and run by the brand.

The car was a (parting) gift to Bruno Giacomelli after a fourth season spent in Formula 1 with Ingegnere Carlo Chiti’s Autodelta SpA. That was 1982. Their agreement, however, had been struck in October 1980, a few days before the GP of the United States.