The last time a car featured in my Heroes column was months back, when I wrote about the 1935 Alfa Romeo Bi-turbo, a fast if erratic machine with an Alfa P3 engine, front and rear. It was dreamt up by Enzo Ferrari and his designer Luigi Bazzi in a desperate search for a post-P3 Grand Prix winner – which it never was – but could, arguably, be called the first ever Ferrari. Another oddball racing car layout is the six-wheeler,…
