Targa plaudits

Sir

Thank you to Bill Boddy for a superb article on the Targa Florio. One can sense the Italian passion for motor racing in those early years, never to be diminished. It is also fitting that your 2004 calen dar covers the Targa in its later years. ,

Last September while on holiday in Sicily, my wife and I drove some parts of the Madonie (Grande e Piccolo) in a rented Alfa. With almost no traffic, just the odd sheep or goat, we had fun and it is an understatement to say it was challenging.

In their own era, Nazzaro, Varzi and Vaccarella used strong machines with great courage and precision to defeat others in those daunting and beautiful mountains.

Could Bill and others give us more Targa Florio stories to match the wonderful calendar photos? John Penfold, Aldingbourne, West Sussex