Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-2001:4647:6283:0:85DA:F0FC:EA71:BE4B-20171111215700/@comment-28169398-20171130042158

Autoracing began in France and the United States, then the United Kingdom. Then came the Germans.

And while I love Italian Sports Cars, they were a little bit late to the game. The first organized races were held 15 years before the founding of A.L.F.A. (Società Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili). A.L.F.A. was only a year old when the first Indianapolis 500 was run in 1911. A.L.F.A. produced their first entrants into the Targa Florio (begun in 1906) in 1911.

Even Fiat (1899) and Lancia (1906) were around before Alfa, and were building race cars and entering races as well. Though I suspect that the original poster is Milanese and won't like to admit the fact that Piemontese from Turino beat them to the game.