Today, Franco Cortese is, perhaps, one of motor sport’s forgotten stars and he shouldn’t be. He was the driver who put Ferrari on the map in a career that spanned 156 races, 20 victories and top placings as long as your arm. During more than four decades, from 1926 to 1958, he raced for the cream of the Italian and British constructors, among them Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Ferrari and Britain’s Frazer Nash. Born in 1903, in the tiny Piedmont village…
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