Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 Super Sport Works Team Car

The extremely light and fast Alfa Romeo Tipo 6C sports cars, designed by the brilliant engineer Vittorio Jano, are unmatched in their class in the late 1920s.

At that time the eight cylinder Alfa Romeo P2 dominates the Grands Prix, and based on it Jano creates a smaller, lighter car, the 6C 1500. Of this model, with its 1.5 liter six cylinder engine, 1,059 examples are built. Ten of these are produced as Super Sport versions and have a shortened chassis and a Roots supercharger. In 1927 Enzo Ferrari, then still a works driver for the Alfa Romeo team, wins the debut race of the 6C 1500 at the Modena circuit. Ferrari achieves an average speed of 107.6 km/h over a distance of 360 kilometers. The example present in the museum is one of the rare Super Sports with a supercharger. The car belonged to a racing driver living in London, Edgar Fronteras, who in May 1929 took twelfth place with it in the "Double Twelve" at the Brooklands circuit.