World champion shakedown: Lewis Hamilton
World champion 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017 What’s been your role in the development of the new car? “I’m not in the engineers’ office, I’m not designing – my job is to explain…
The Alfa Romeo car has done some wonderful things during the past season, including the acquisition of the Blue Riband of the motoring sports world, the Grand Prix. There are two sports chassis on the stand, the 15-55 four-cylinder, and the 22-90 super-sports sixcylinder model. Both have overhead valve engines, and four-speed gear boxes : both have brakes on all four wheels, the mechanism being of special design. The dark red body on the larger sports model, which is stated to be capable of a speed of 85 m.p.h., is a splendid
example of the coach builders art as applied to spirts body work. The chassis prices of these models are £550 and £725 respectively, and that of the special sports car, with the red body to which reference has been made, is f,950.