Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) Register

Winning its first race out of the box, the P3 went on to win 5 more major races in 1932. With the two best drivers of the day, Tazio Nuvolari and Rudolf Caracciola racing them 1932 was a successful year. Some said that with a Vittorio Jano designed car and their two great drivers they should not expect anything less. Vittorio Jano joined Alfa Romeo in 1923 from FIAT where he had worked on the Type 405 Grand Prix engine. His first charge from Nicola Romeo was to design a competitive grand prix car. Designated the P2, it had an eight-cylinder engine of 1,987cc, dual overhead camshafts and a small Roots supercharger running at 1.33 times crankshaft speed. The small blower gave, according to Lawrence Pomeroy�s The Grand Prix Car, 0.7 atmospheres boost, and the engine produced 156hp at 5500 rpm. In its first racing appearance Giuseppe Campari�s P2 outran Europe�s best including Bugatti, Fiat, Delage, Miller and Sunbeam at the 503 mile 1924 European GP at Lyon and conclusively established Alfa Romeo�s sporting reputation.

The P2 was a consistent grand prix winner through 1929. Its 1925 World Championship is the reason why every subsequent Alfa�s badge is surrounded by the laurel wreath of victory.

When the bar was raised for the 1931 season, Jano created two very different automobiles. One, the Tipo A, was powered by a pair of 6C 1750 engines mounted side-by-side and driving the rear wheels through a pair of transmissions, driveshafts and differentials into a single solid rear axle. The Tipo A was powerful, but its complication brought unreliability and its career was short. The other was an eight-cylinder based on the bore and stroke of his six-cylinder 1750. Intended for both sports and grand prix competition, Jano used two pairs of fourcylinder aluminum blocks with steel cylinder liners and detachable aluminum double overhead camshaft cylinder heads. The camshafts were driven by a helical gear train between the pair of blocks to minimize inertial loadings and torsional cam timing variations. With the 6C 1750�s 65x88mm bore and stroke the eight displaced 2,336cc. It breathed through a single Roots supercharger and dual throat Memini carburetor and produced 178hp at 5,400rpm. Designated 8C 2300, it earned the nickname it bears to this day, �Monza�, when 1924 Lyon winner, the stocky baritone Campari, teamed with the diminutive and mercurial Figlio del Diavolo, Tazio Nuvolari, to win the 10 hour 1931 Italian GP at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.

While the 8C 2300 was eminently successful in the 1931 season, a new 750kg formula for 1932 convinced Alfa Romeo a new car was necessary.

Putting the complicated Tipo A behind him, Jano returned to proven principles for the 1932 Tipo B, designing his first purpose-built grand prix car around the demonstrated effectiveness of the Monza but with attention to detail and execution that made it Alfa�s greatest single seat grand prix car. The Tipo B retained the Monza�s layout but cast the cylinders and heads integrally in the fixed head, testa fissa, configuration that had proven successful with the 6C racers. The centrally located camshaft drive gear train used straight cut gears for more precise timing. Also driven from the center of the crankshaft were two small Roots superchargers, each with its own Weber carburetor and supplying four cylinders. Jano recognized that smaller superchargers put less stress on the engine, had less rotational inertia and were more thermally efficient. Crankcase and sump were cast in magnesium, one of Jano�s objectives being to reduce the engine�s weight. Initially displacing 2,654cc, it produced 180hp at 5600rpm with 0.75 atmospheres boost.

The Tipo B�s chassis was equally based on proven principles but conceived and executed with attention to road-holding and lightness. The chassis layout was conventional, with solid axles front and rear sprung by semi-elliptic leaf springs, however, great attention was paid to keeping all masses low and unsprung weight to a minimum. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the rear axle drive system. Drawing on the Tipo A�s split drive arrangement, Jano placed the differential at the back of the Tipo B�s transmission with two short driveshafts running at angles to simple bevel gears just inside each rear wheel driving stub axles. The axle tube itself was very light and the centrally located driver could sit low, between the two driveshafts.

Ferrari�s factory-entered Tipo Bs dominated grand prix racing in 1932. At the time Alfa consistently referred to these monopostos as Tipo B, but never objected to the public�s and journalists� use of �P3�, a designation that could only remind competitors of the Alfa P2�s grand prix domination. It was the best kind of advertising hyperbole � that backed up with performance � and it is as the P3 that the Alfa Romeo Tipo B is best known through its long and successful history.

Race history in general:

1932:
The P3 quite literally obliterated its competition in the 1932 season, winning seemingly at will and frequently backed up by Monzas in GP configuration. Its first appearance came at the Italian GP at Monza on June 5. While in earlier years grands prix had been 10 hour races, along with other revised regulations the three Championship races, the Italian, French and German GPs, were held over a length of �only� five hours, a sprint race by the standards of the day. New and daunting cars were built for the 1932 formula by the major constructors. Maserati unleashed a 4,904cc twin-engined monster, the V5, powered by a pair of eightcylinder 26M engines which it entrusted to the great Luigi Fagioli. Bugatti countered with two supercharged 4,972cc Type 54s driven by Louis Chiron and Achille Varzi.

The Alfa Romeos were entered by Scuderia Ferrari, the private team supported by wealthy Italian sportsmen and managed by Enzo Ferrari that had been established in 1929 to campaign Alfa Romeos in grand prix and sports car competition. Two P3s were built by Alfa Romeo at Portello and prepared by Scuderia Ferrari for the Italian GP at Monza where they were driven by Tazio Nuvolari and Giuseppe Campari, backed up by four Monzas for Borzacchini, Caracciola, Ghersi and Siena. An epic battle ensued, one of the most stirring in an era of great races. First Nuvolari in the P3 and Chiron in the Bugatti swapped the lead. Shortly, however, they were surpassed by Fagioli in the twin-engined Maserati. After Chiron�s retirement Nuvolari and Fagioli engaged in a see-saw battle, the lightweight 2.9 liter P3 against the monster Maserati, until the day was carried by the incomparable Nuvolari in Jano�s lithe monoposto Alfa, repeating the P2�s accomplishment of achieving victory in its first competitive appearance.

Three Alfa Romeo P3s driven by Nuvolari, Caracciola and Borzacchini appeared at the French GP, the oldest and most prestigious race of the season, this year held at Rheims. They were opposed only by Bugatti which presented two Type 54�s for Varzi and Divo and a 2.3 liter Type 51 for Chiron. Ten privately-entered Alfas and Bugattis filled out the sixteen car field. At the end of the day the P3s swept the board with Nuvolari first, followed by Borzacchini and Caracciola. The third race of the 1932 Championship series, the German GP at the daunting Nürburgring likewise saw the P3s sweep the podium with Caracciola taking his home GP under team orders, leading Nuvolari and Borzacchini. The P3 captured a succession of other victories; during the whole 1932 season it was defeated only once when Nuvolari�s magneto was swamped in a rain-drenched Czechoslovakian GP at Brno on September 4 and repeated pit stops dropped the Flying Mantuan and his P3 to third at the finish.

1933:
Only six P3s were built by Alfa Romeo for the 1932 season and after the devastation they wreaked on the competition, Alfa, now in financial difficulty and nationalized as part of the Istituto Ricostruzione Industriale, officially withdrew from racing. The P3s were stored in Portello and Scuderia Ferrari competed with 8C Monzas increased in displacement to 2,632cc. They, however, were not competitive with the dedicated grand prix machines from Bugatti and Maserati and Enzo Ferrari finally pried the P3s out of the factory�s hands. Their first appearance was at the Coppa Acerbo on August 13. Luigi Fagioli in the P3 faced off against Nuvolari, now driving his own three liter Maserati, and once again the P3 was victorious. Fagioli also snatched victory in the Italian GP at Monza on September 10th but in the Monza GP Campari in the Alfa P3 was killed in an accident on the first lap of the second heat. The P3s took further victories, including Chiron�s wins in Czechoslovakia and Spain and Motor Sport�s unofficial tally of manufacturers� points at the season�s end saw Alfa Romeo the decisive leader.

1934:
Following the 1933 season Alfa Romeo announced it would build a limited series of enhanced P3s with 2,905cc displacement making 255bhp at 5,400rpm. Initially slated for delivery to clients, Enzo Ferrari succeeded in convincing Alfa Romeo to restrict availability of the 1934 P3s only to Italian clients, effectively locking up the new P3s for Scuderia Ferrari. In addition to more power the 1934 P3s also had improved chassis with hydraulic brakes, hydraulic shock absorbers at the rear along with friction dampers and a wider cockpit to meet regulations, but at the cost of an increase in weight although still well under the 750kg maximum allowed by the GP rules. Eventually some nine of these 1934 Alfa Romeo P3s were built while the earlier P3s were updated to meet the 1934 regulations.

Ferrari entered five 2.9 liter P3s for the Monaco GP driven by Varzi, Chiron, Guy Moll, Lehoux and Count Trossi, Scuderia Ferrari�s President. Ranged against them were three of the new Type 59 Bugattis for Dreyfus, Wimille and Nuvolari and a selection of Maseratis. Intruding on the scene, but not an official entrant, was Caracciola who took demonstration laps in the newest Mercedes-Benz GP car, a hint of things to come in the increasingly nationalistic grand prix competition.

Count Trossi, whose position as the President of Scuderia Ferrari was not an honorary one, set the fastest practice time which gave him the pole position in the first grand prix in which the starting grid was set by time rather than by a drawing. Rene Dreyfus took the lead in his Type 59 Bugatti at the start but was quickly passed by Louis Chiron who drove with verve, building his lead lap after lap. He was eventually pursued by Phillipe Étancelin driving his year-old Maserati 8CM until a mid-race accident sidelined the charging Maserati. Nuvolari, also in a Bugatti Type 59, and Piero Taruffi in one of the Scuderia Ferrari Alfa P3s tussled mid-race until they encountered mechanical problems. Through it all the young Guy Moll, in his first race for Scuderia Ferrari, drove consistently and eventually rose through the pack to lie second behind the great Chiron.

Guy Moll was nearly two months shy of his 24th birthday when he took his first start as a member of Scuderia Ferrari. An Algerian, like fellow Scuderia Ferrari driver Marcel Lehoux, he had first risen to prominence two years before, driving Lehoux�s Bugatti to 3rd place in the Czechoslovakian Grand Prix. Moll acquired a 2.6 liter Alfa Romeo Monza in 1933 and showed a blend of consistency and quickness, which marked him as an up-and-coming driver. He was one of the private entrants who sent a deposit to Alfa Romeo for a customer P3 but unlike most of the disappointed privateers, when Alfa decided to restrict the P3s to Scuderia Ferrari Moll, along with his countryman and patron Lehoux were added to the team.

Showing fine balance between speed and reliability, Moll pursued the veteran Chiron, who had built his lead to nearly two minutes, almost a full lap, through the streets of Monaco. Then, on the penultimate lap of the 100 circuit race, Chiron miscalculated at the station hairpin and entangled his P3 in the sandbag barrier. It took him nearly three minutes to extricate the Alfa while Moll swept by and took the victory by just over a minute.

Dreyfus�s Bugatti interrupted a P3 train, finishing 3rd ahead of Lehoux, both a lap in arrears to Moll and Chiron.

The P3 swept the podium spots a total of four times in 1934 at Tripoli (Varzi, Moll, Chiron), Penya Rhin (Varzi, Chiron, Lehoux), the French GP (Chiron, Varzi and Count Trossi (with relief from Guy Moll)) and the GP de la Marne at Rheims (Chiron, Moll and Varzi/Marinoni). At Bordino the P3s were 1-2 (Varzi, Chiron) with Tadini 3rd in a 2.6 liter Monza. One of the more remarkable P3 wins came when Achille Varzi won the Targa Florio.

Guy Moll continued to run fast and carefully planned races, taking an important victory on the German teams� home turf at the Avus-Rennen on the day before his 24th birthday in a special streamlined 3.2 liter Alfa Romeo P3. In the Coppa Ciano on July 22 Varzi and Moll battled throughout the 241 km event. The veteran Varzi eventually took the victory, but Moll�s talent and race-craft were now thoroughly evident.

At the Coppa Acerbo held on the 16 mile Pescara circuit on August 15 the German teams appeared in force with three of the eight-cylinder supercharged W25�s putting 350hp in the hands of Caracciola, Fagioli and champion motorcycle rider Ernst Jacob Henne and two 16-cylinder 295hp Auto Union Type A�s in the hands of Hans Stuck and Wilhelm Sebastian up against the 255hp Alfas. Their performance decisively showed where the rest of the season was headed, particularly the Mercedes team which were both fast and quick.

The race started on a wet track exploited by Caracciola who set a blistering pace. Stuck, Varzi and Fagioli (Auto Union, Alfa P3 and Mercedes respectively) battled for second until Caracciola was caught by a rain shower and crashed. Fagioli now led but had to pit for tires. The new leader? Guy Moll.

A fuel stop dropped Moll to third behind Varzi (who had taken over Pietro Ghersi�s Alfa P3) and Fagioli which became second when Varzi pitted for new tires. Running hard with only two laps of the 20-lap contest remaining, Moll came up to lap Henne in the Mercedes W25 on the Montesilvano straight. The Alfa twitched, some say blown off its course by the scirocco wind off the Adriatic Sea, spun off course, bounced through a ditch, hit a bridge and finally was arrested nearly a quarter mile away by the wall of a barn. Guy Moll, only twenty-four and the rising star of Scuderia Ferrari, died shortly thereafter.

A brilliant career was cut short, but not before accomplishing a feat � winning his first grand prix with a factory team � that few others have achieved. In Guy Moll�s case it came, further, at the age of only 23, in an era when experienced drivers enjoyed a distinct advantage. Guy Moll�s 1934 Monaco Grand Prix victory was an accomplishment that remained unmatched for well over a half-century � winning his first grand prix at the age of 23 years, 314 days.

The P3�s most famous victory came very late in its career when Tazio Nuvolari beat the combined German might of five Mercedes and four Auto Unions. That race, the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring, in front of dozens of Nazi officials is considered one of Nuvolari�s greatest victories of all time while the car that took him to victory, the P3 is enshrined in the pantheon of great Grand Prix cars.

Chassis overview

First series:

Chassis

Last known owner

5001 (SF 33)

Greg Whitten, Medina, Washington, USA

5002 (SF 38)

Warren �Ned� Spieker, Atherton, California, USA

5003 (SF 37)

Willi Balz, Wolfschlugen, Germany

5004	Destroyed and written off

5005	Alfa Romeo Museo Storico, Arese, Italy

5006 (SF 33)

Peter Giddings, San Francisco, California, USA

Second Series:

Chassis

Last known owner

50001 (SF 41)

Carlos Monteverde, UK (up for sale via Symbolic/Talacrest in 2000)

50002 (SF 42)

Hugh Taylor, UK

50003 (SF 43)

Yoshijuki Hayashi, Japan

50004 (SF 44)

Willi Balz, Wolfschlugen, Germany

50005 (SF 45)

Jon Shirley, Medina, Washington, USA

50006 (SF 46)

Umberto Rossi, Italy

50007 (SF 47)

Anthony Smith, UK

50008

Missing, chassis may be used to build the Bimotore (SF 48)

50009 (SF 49)

Destroyed (Rodney Felton, UK used the �missing� number to build up a replica)

Detailed histories

1. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 5001

1932	Completed, this is the only P3 with shorter wheelbase than the other P3s and is also
	the only one with a �biposto� sports car body

1932-33

Various GP races

1933	Transferred to Scuderia Ferrari, Modena, Italy (SF 34)

1934	1st - GP Monaco, Guy Moll
1934	1st - Criterium di Roma, Piero Taruffi
1934	1st - Mille Miglia, Carlo Pintacuda
1934	dnf - Targa Florio, Carlo Pintacuda
1934	dnf - Tripoli GP, Carlo Pintacuda
1934	3rd - Sorrento-Sant�Agata, Carlo Pintacuda
1934	4th - Corsa del Kesselberg, Carlo Pintacuda
1934	3rd - Circuito di Torino, Carlo Pintacuda
1934	2nd OA 1st IC - Corsa del Grossglockner, Carlo Pintacuda
1934	4th OA 1st IC - Corsa dello Stelvio, Carlo Pintacuda
1934	3rd - Circuito di Lucca, Carlo Pintacuda
1936	4th - Mille Miglia, Clemente Biondetti

193.	Sold to South America

197.	Located in UK as a �bitsa�, rebuilt

198.	Owned by Alain de Cadenet, UK

19..	Registered on plates: �MFF 955�

198.	Sold to Yoshijuki Hayashi, Japan

�.	Sold to Greg Whitten, Medina, Washington, USA

2002/jan/23-27

Displayed at Cavallino Classic by Greg Whitten, won �Peoples choice Award�

2. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 5002

1932	Completed, fitted with standard semi-elliptic front springs

1932	*Transferred to Scuderia Ferrari, Modena, Italy*
	(SF 38)

1933	Entered in various GPs in Europe

1934/dec/24	*Sold to Count Felice Trossi, Italy*
	and registered on plates: �VC 7687�

1935/apr/29	Sold to Carlo Gari, Genova, Switzerland
	and registered on plates: �GE 19644�

1935	Most probably entered by Nando Barbieri in the following races:

1935/may/05	dnf - GP Tunis, Nando Barbieri
1935/may/12	dnf - GP Tripoli, Nando Barbieri
1935/may/26	6th - Avusrennen, Nando Barbieri (r#12)
1935/aug/25	dnf - GP Schweiz, Nando Barbieri
1935/sep/29	dnf - Coppa Edda Ciano (Lucca), Nando Barbieri

1936/feb/24	*Sold to Maria Sardi, Genova, Switzerland*
	(wife of Franco Sardi)

1936	*Sold back to Scuderia Ferrari, Modena, Italy*

1936	Fitted with Dubonnet independent front supsension and hydraulic brakes

1936/jul/11	*Sold to Hans Ruesch, Napoli, Italy*
	(also Switzerland)

1936/aug/15	5th OA - Coppa Acerbo, Hans Ruesch
1936/aug/23	1st OA - Prix de Bremgarten, Hans Ruesch
1936	Painted red and white

1937	Most probably entered by Renato Balestero in the following races:

1937/jun/13	dnf - Eifelrennen, Renato Balestero
1937/jul/25	dnf - GP Deutschland, Renato Balestero
1937/sep/26	dnf - GP Brno, Renato Balestero

1937/aug/21

2nd OA - Prix de Bremgarten, Curt Willy Futternecht (behind Ruesch in 50013)

1938	*Sold to John Snow, Australia*
	for Jack Saywell

1938/apr/23	dns - Cork race, Buddy Featherstonhaugh
1939/jan/02	6th OA - GP Australia, Lobethal, Jack Saywell
1939/jan	Set various national Australian land speed records on Pipe Clay track by Jack

Saywell

1939	Engine only sent back to Italy by ship, but the ship was torpedoed and so; original
engine lost	forever!
194.	Sold to Rex Marshall, Australia - engineless
194.	4.3-litre Alvis engine fitted by Marshall

1952	*Sold to Bill Murray, Australia*

1952/apr/14	3rd OA - GP Australia, Bathurst, Bill Murray
1953/jan/26	dnf(engine) - Orange, Bill Murray
1954	134.4 mph over a quarter fyling mile, Orange, Bill Murray

1954	*Sold to Gordon Greig, Australia*

1955/easter

acc. - Bathurst, Tony Bourke - killing two spectators

1956	*Sold to Ray Walmesley, Australia*

1956	1st OA - Bathurst, Ray Walmesley
1956	GMC truck engine fitted by Walmesley
1957	1st OA - Bathurst 100, Ray Walmesley

1958	Fitted with Chevrolet Corvette V8-engine

196./early

Sold to Doug & John Jarvis, Adelaide, Australia

1966	*Sold to Hon. Patrick Lindsay, UK*

1966	Restored to pre-war configuration by Crosthwaite & Gardiner, UK
	Fitted with engine 50001 (bought from Lord Ridley)

19..	Sold to Don Young, Santa Barbara, California, USA
	via Keith Duly, Bethlehem, CT, USA

19..	*Sold to Yoshijuki Hayashi, Japan*

2001/aug/19	Auctioned at Christie�s Pebble Beach Auction but remained unsold, highbid $ 1.4mio

2002/jan	Offered for sale by Bruce Trenery�s Fantasy Junction, Berkeley, California, USA,
	asking $ 1.9mio

200.	*Owned by Warren �Ned� Spieker, Atherton, California, USA*

3. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 5003

1932

Completed

1933	Transferred to Scuderia Ferrari, Modena, Italy
	(SF 37)

1935	*Sold to Raymond Sommer, France*
	and raced by him in the mid-thirties. Later in 1935,
	Sommer also bought one of the 1934 Tipo Bs (chassis 50004)
	and campaigned both that year as a team.
	Sommer�s Alfa Romeos were both painted in the French racing blue.

1936	*Sold to W. C. Deveraux, UK*
	for Chris Stanilard to drive and the car was conducted with some success by him.
	The Alfa Romeo remained in Sommer�s blue livery that year.

1937	At the end of the 1937 season, in which the P3 had only raced once
	at the Campbell Trophy meet, it was decided to modify the Alfa considerably
	for further work at Brooklands. The work was undertaken by J.S. Worters
	and included a new 4-speed gearbox, a Lockheed hydraulic braking system with
	larger drums, a stiffer frame, modified leaf spring suspension and an aerodynamic
	body. The �Multi-Union� Special was born.

1938/oct	Stanilard took a number of records at Brooklands,
	including the Class D Flying-Start over distances of five kilometres (at 139.5mph),
	five miles (at 139.9mph),
	ten kilometres (at 139.6mph) and finally,
	ten miles (138.9mph).
	The �Multi-Union� also set a new Lap Record for the Outer-Circuit (Class D)
	at a very fast 141.45mph.

1938/late	At the end of the 1938 season, further work was undertaken on the car and the
	resultant machine is often referred to as �Multi-Union II�. The front part of the chassis
	frame was removed and the old rigid beam axle replaced by an Italian Tecnauto

I.F.S. system and the rest of the rear suspension was also altered to cope. The

	coachwork was altered once more and ended up looking rather like a W125
	Mercedes Benz.

1939	Stanilard had a couple of further outings at Brooklands during 1939
	but with the outbreak of war, the career of the �Multi-Union� came to a close and
	it dropped out of sight for a number of years.

194.	Chris Stanilard was chief test pilot for Fairey Aviation, but was killed during WWII.

194.	*Sold to Jack Emmott, UK*

194.	*Sold to Fry bros., UK*

19.	*Sold to G.F.Yates, UK*

197./early	*Sold to Hon. Patrick Lindsay, UK*
	who loaned it to the Donington Collection.

1977/apr	Entered in the 1977 VSCC Silverstone meet and since then sporadically campaigned
	by Lindsay
1978	*Sold to Chris Mann, London, UK*
	who similarly raced it.

1985	Chris Mann decided to resurrect the identity of the ex-Stanilard P3,
	stripping the �Multi-Union� of the genuine Alfa Romeo parts which remained on the

Special.

Work on the P3 identity progressed slowly (the project lasted from 1985 until 1991)

	Meanwhile, the remaining �Multi-Union� parts were sold to the late David Black, UK
	who planned to rebuild that identity as well.

19..	Registered on plates: �GP 37�

1992	*Sold to Peter Groh, Gaertringen, Germany*

1992/jul

Christie�s Historic Festival entered by Peter Groh in July.

1992-1996

Run both in GP and �Biposta� configuration in historic events.

1996/early	*Sold to Robert Fink, Munich, Germany*
	who paid PDS 1.0mio.

1996	Ferrari Historic Challenge, Ferrari Racing Days, Nuerburgring, Robert Fink
1997/jul	Ferrari Historic Challenge, Coys International Historic Festival, Robert Fink (r#12)
1997	Ferrari Historic Challenge, Tutte le Ferrari in Sicilia, Enna, Robert Fink
1998/apr	Ferrari Historic Challenge, Spa Ferrari Days, Robert Fink
1998	Ferrari Historic Challenge, Tutte le Ferrari in Pista, Imola, Robert Fink
1999/nov/05-07	Ferrari Maserati Historic Festival, Tutte le Ferrari a Vallelunga, Robert Fink (r#2)
2001/apr	Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge, Spa Ferrari Days, Robert Fink (r#3)
2001/oct/19-21	Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge, Tutte le Ferrari a Monza, Robert Fink (r#3)
2002/apr/26-28	Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge, Spa Ferrari Days, Robert Fink (r#11)
2002/sep/07-09	Ferrari Racing Days Nuerburgring, Robert Fink (r#11)
2002/oct/16-18	Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge, Tutte le Ferrari a Misano, Robert Fink (dns)
2006/mar	Displayed at Retro Classic, Stuttgart
2006/sep/01-03	Goodwood Revival Meeting, Robert Fink (r#2)
2007/oct/26-28	Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge, Ferrari Finali Mondiali, Robert Fink (r#11)

2008	*Sold to Willi Balz, Wolfschlugen, Germany*

4. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 5004

1932

Completed

1933	*Transferred to Scuderia Ferrari, Modena, Italy*

(SF ??)

1934/aug/16

Fatal acc. - Coppa Acerbo, Pescara, Guy Moll

1934/aug/16

Car destroyed and written off

5. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 5005

1932

Completed

19.. - 2009

Displayed in the Alfa Romeo Museo Storico, Arese, Italy

6. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 5006

1932

Completed

1933	*Transferred to Scuderia Ferrari, Modena, Italy*

(SF 33)

1932-34	Actively employed by Scuderia Ferrari throughout the 1932-1934 seasons,
	and has been consistently described since just after World War II as the
	�1934 Monaco Winner�, a conclusion supported by period photos of Guy Moll
	at Monaco driving a P3 with features that are shared by 5006.

1935	Sold to Raphael Bethenod de Las Casas
	who raced under the pseudonym �Georges Raph� with the advent of the fully
	independent suspension Alfa Romeo 8C-35 in 1935

1935	2nd OA - GP France, Georges Raph
1935	7th OA - GP de la Marne, Georges Raph
1935	dnf(carbs) - GP Dieppe, Georges Raph
1935	2nd OA - GP Comminges, Georges Raph
1936	? - Pau, Georges Raph

194.	*Sold to Anthony Powys-Lybbe, UK*
	who raced it with some success, winning the Wakefield Trophy at Curragh
	outside Dublin in both 1949 and 1953 and taking the Frank O�Boyle Trophy
	at Dundrod in Ulster in 1950.

195.	*Sold to John Vessey, UK,*
	contesting VSCC events in 1955

19..	*Sold to John Crowther, UK*

19..	*Sold to Michael Thackray, UK*

1964	*Sold to W.H. �Bill� Summers, UK*
	one of the preeminent early British collections who, with Peter Waller, raced it into
	the sixties.

1966	dnf(engine) - VSCC Seamon Trophy, Bill Summers

1966	Original engine replaced with another original P3 engine was fitted,
	this one the rear engine from the Bimotore, a twin engine experimental grand prix car

that �

while brutally fast � was too heavy and too hard on tires to find success on the

racetrack.

1967	*Sold to Neil Corner, UK,*
	lending it for display in the Donington Collection.

198./early

Sold to Yoshijuki Hayashi, Japan

2000	*Sold to unknown owner*

2005/aug/20	Auctioned at RM�s Monterey Sports and Classic Car Auction and sold for $2,1mio
	incl. buyer�s premium

2005/late

Sold to Peter Giddings, San Francisco, California, USA

Peter Giddings describes his car as such:

	�#5006 is the sole surviving first series Tipo B, retaining its original
	(subsequently factory widened) slim sided body and half elliptic rear suspension,
	which is still being historic raced today.

	#5006 is one out of only five Tipo Bs from a total of 13 survivors to have earned
	Dennis Jenkinson�s accolade of �genuine�.

	Scuderia Ferrari Tipo Bs (#5006 prominent amongst them) swept the board from the
	outset with a stunning first (Tazio Nuvolari), second (Umberto Borzacchini),
	and third (Rudolf Caracciola) at the 1932 French GP, averaging 90 mph.�

7. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 50001

1934

Completed

1934	*Transferred to Scuderia Ferrari, Modena, Italy*
	(SF 41)

1934	GP Dieppe, Lehoux

193.	*Sold to Luis Fontes, UK*
	who was famed for his victory in the Monaco Grand Prix driving his Alfa Romeo

Monza a few years previously.

1937	Original engine installed in a racing hydroplane. Thereafter the car remained unused
	and untouched throughout the war.

1955	*Sold to George Weaver,*
	an American Air Force officer serving in Europe and enjoying club racing in

sportscars in England during his tour of duty. Mr. Weaver was the well known owner

of the American

racing circuit of Thompson in Connecticut.

	On his return to the USA he took this car and installed the engine from the
	ex-Raymond Sommer car which remained in the States following the Vanderbilt Cup
	race of 1937, numbered 50004. This engine has remained in the car ever since.

196./early	*Sold to John Willock, USA*
	in the early 1960s who used the car very sparingly and later dismantled the P3
	for a thorough overhaul but never completed the work.

198./early	Sold to Peter Giddings, San Francisco, California, USA,
	still apart, who restored the car with the help of experts John de Boer and Phil Reilly.

1985/aug	3rd - Monterey Historic Races, Laguna Seca, Peter Giddings
1986/aug	2nd - Monterey Historic Races, Laguna Seca, Phil Reilly

198.	*Sold to Yoshijuki Hayashi, Japan*

199.	*Sold to Carlos Monteverde, UK (Brazil)*

1997	Entered at Torrey Pines hillclimb
1999	Offered by Symbolic Motor Cars, La Jolla, California, USA, asking $3.5 mio.
1999/jun/19	Auctioned at Christie�s Petersen Automotive MuseumAuction and
	sold for $ 2.202.500,00 incl. buyer�s premium

1999/jun/19	Sold to unknown owner

8. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 50002

1934

Completed

1934	*Transferred to Scuderia Ferrari, Modena, Italy*
	(SF 42)

1936	*Sold to Count De Villapadierna, Spain*

1939	*Sold via Frank Griswold, San Francisco, California, USA*

1939	15th OA - Indianapolis 500, Louis Tomei (r#58) (Griswold entrant)
1940	dnf - Indianapolis 500, Al Miller (r#58) (Griswold entrant)
1940	1st - World�s Fair New York, Frank Griswold

194.	*Sold to Tommy Lee, L.A., California, USA*

1946/may/30	dnf - Indianapolis 500, Hal Cole (r#47) (Lee entrant) - �Don Lee Special�
1947	15th OA - Indianapolis 500, Ken Fowler (Lee entrant) - Don Lee Special�
1948	dnq - Indianapolis 500, Ken Fowler (Lee entrant) - �Don Lee Special�

195.	*Sold to Bill Murray, Australia*
	in semi derelict condition

19..	*Sold to David Uihlein Racing, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, USA*
	(still in semi derelict condition, this car is missing its proper engine,
	transmission and rear axle)

200.	*Sold to Hugh Taylor, UK*


Note:

	Some sources claim that the original chassis 50002 was re-numbered to �50007�
	(see 50007)

9. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 50003

1934

Completed

1934	*Transferred to Scuderia Ferrari, Modena, Italy*
	(SF 43)

1935	*Sold to CEC Martin, UK*

1948	*Sold to Raphael Berthenod de las Casas, Paris, France*
	alias Georges Raph

1955	*Sold to Lex Davison, Australia*

1957	*Sold to Steven Ames, Brisbane, Australia*

1957	*Sold to Rex Taylor, Australia*

1959	*Sold to Keith Blicaski, Toowoomba, Australia*

1963	*Sold to Lawrence Rofe, Melbourne, Australia*

1967	*Sold to Douglas and John Jarvis, Adelaide, Australia*

1967	*Sold to Sir Ralph Millais, Hawkhurst, UK*

19..	*Sold to Robert Cooper, Wiltshire, UK*

1997	*Sold to David and Ben Black, UK*

1997	*Sold to Yoshijuki Hayashi, Japan*

2004	Offered by Symbolic Motor Cars, La Jolla, California, USA, asking ??

2009/sep/18-20

4th - Goodwood Revival Meeting, Matt Grist (r#3)

10. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 50004

1934

Completed

1934	*Transferred to Scuderia Ferrari, Modena, Italy*
	(SF 44)

1935	*Sold to Tazio Nuvolari, Mantova, Italy*

1936	*Sold to France*

1937	*Sold to USA*

19..	Fitted with Ford V8 engine (the original engine went in a hillclimb Special)

19.	*Sold to Klaus Werner, Wuppertal, Germany*

�.	*Sold to Thomas Bscher, Cologne, Germany*

200.	*Sold to Willi Balz, Wolfschlugen, Germany*

11. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 50005

1934

Completed

1934	*Transferred to Scuderia Ferrari, Modena, Italy*
	(SF 45)

1935	1st - GP Nurburgring, Tazio Nuvolari

1937	*Sold to Austin Dobson, UK*

19..	*Sold to Kenneth Evans, UK*

19..	*Sold to Roy Salvadori, UK*

19..	*Sold to Les Moore, UK*

1951	*Sold to A. J. � Ron� Roycroft, New Zealand*

19..	*Sold to Brian Tracey, New Zealand*

19..	*Sold to Bill Clark, New Zealand*

1989	*Sold to Yoshijuki Hayashi, Japan*

2000	*Sold to Jon Shirley, Medina, Washington, USA*

12. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 50006

1934

Completed

1934	*Transferred to Scuderia Ferrari, Modena, Italy*
	(SF 46)

1937	Sold to Frank Ashby, UK - Duller & Ashby

194.	*Sold to Ken Hutchison, UK*
	and races in sprints and hillclimbs

19..	*Sold to James H. Goodhew, UK*

19..	*Sold to John McMillan, New Zealand*

195.	*Sold to Ernie Sprague, New Zealand*

19..	*Sold to Bill Harris, New Zealand*

19..	*Sold to Leon Witte, New Zealand*

199.	*Sold to Yoshijuki Hayashi, Japan*

2000/mar/11	Auctioned at RM�s Amelia Island Auction and sold for $ 2.145.000,00 incl. buyer�s
	premium

200.	*Sold to Umberto Rossi, Italy*

2007/feb

Displayed at Retromobile, Paris, France (still owned by Rossi)

13. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 50007

1934

Completed

1934	*Transferred to Scuderia Ferrari, Modena, Italy*
	(SF 47)

1935	*Sold to Richard �Dick� Shuttleworth, UK*

1935	Painted green to Shuttleworth�s order

1935	Shuttleworth broke Malcolm Campbell�s record at Brighton

19..	Registered on plates: �MPH 374�

1947	Modified into a two-seater sports car

19..	*Sold to Geoffrey Barnard, Lyne, Surrey, UK*

19..	*Sold to Dennis Z. De Ferranti, Bofrenaun, Irland*

19..	*Sold to Bartlett, UK*

19..	*Sold to Henry W. Wessels III., Paoli, PA, USA*

19..	*Sold to Rodney Felton, UK*

19..	Rebuilt back to P3 monoposto configuration

�.	*Sold to Anthony Smith, UK*
	(manager of the rock band �Genesis�)

2001	Offered for sale by Taylor & Crawley, UK

2009/sep/18-20

Goodwood Revival Meeting, Tony Smith (r#5)

Note:	Some sources claim that this car is 50002 which was re-numbered to "50007"
	when sold to the UK in 1934/35. This theory is supported by the SF number "42"
	that also appears on "50007". Engine 50002 was apparently re-numbered to "50003".

14. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 50008

1934	Nothing is knonw about this car. Some sources claim that 50008 was supposed
	to have laid in Bangladesh in the �60s (unconfirmed rumour)

15. Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3) s/n 50009

1934

Completed

1934	Transferred to Scuderia Ferrari, Modena, Italy
	(SF 49)

1935	Uprated to the latest specification with Dubonnet independent front suspension
	and all usual modifications

1936	Nose modified to look like a Tipo C

1936	*Sold to Riccardo Nasi, Argentina*

1938/jan/03	1st OA - Circuito Mar del Plata, Riccardo Nasi
1938/may/14	2nd OA - Circuito de San Francisco, Riccardo Nasi

1948	*Sold to Adriano Malusardi, Argentina*

1949/feb/17

Fatal acc. - Circuito Mar del Plata, Adriano Malusardi

1949/feb/17

Destroyed by crash and fire, written off

19..	(Few) remains with Lucio M. Bollaert & Ernesto Pablo Dillon, Buenos Aires,
	Argentina

198./early	*Remains sold to Rodney Felton, UK*
	who �reconstructed� 50009 into a Tipo B

1985/jun/08-09	VSCC Seaman Trophy, Oulton Park, Rodney Felton.
.	Dominant in historic racing in the mid-1980s and has kept racing on and off ever

since.

	Sometimes fitted with vestigal road equipment and registered as �HSV 977�.
	Also active for owner Felton with Bugatti exponent Sir John Venebles-Llewellyn

Bjoern Schmidt