A postwar sport venture captured in 400 images

Mostly drawn from Alfa Romeo's own archive, this photographic history holds some real racing diamonds

- Damien Smith

This will be popular - because who doesn’t love an Alfa Romeo? As you'll have gathered from the title, there’s no place here for the pre-World War II glory years. The book begins post-war with the first green-shoot motor races of the new peacetime, works through the glorious 158/159 early Formula 1 seasons and on through the decades via saloon, touring, rally, GT and sports car racing, plus more F1, up to 2023.

What this isn't is a definitive history of Alfa in motor sport since 1945. It's a simple picture book, featuring more than 400 images over 300-plus pages. The photographs are drawn largely from Alfa’s own Storico archive, with additions from the author himself - not to be confused with the Benetton and Lotus F1 team manager of the same name - and others such as Ted Walker's collection for some UK shots.