Only in Italy can someone be an opera singer and a racing driver. Giuseppe Campari was both. In 1929 he won the Mille Miglia, a 1000-mile race from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia again, on open roads. An insane and very dangerous event, with death always chasing the drives closely. Today it’s hard to the imagination what it must have been like.

The car he drove was the legendary Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 GS, a very successful racing car in its day and a true piece of art. In 1957 the Mille Miglia was deemed too dangerous and discontinued. Campari didn’t live to experience this, but the legend lives on.

This drawing is made in ink on A3 sized paper, coloured with ink and markers.