Contract Between Tazio Nuvolari and Scuderia Ferrari Discovered

The 1935 agreement that Tazio Nuvolari had closed with Alfa Romeo - through the Scuderia - has recently been rediscovered. Ferrari .

What is perhaps most striking when reading the agreement is its extreme conciseness, perhaps one of the most important sports law agreements of the 1930s: just one page for Nuvolari to make his services available to the Scuderia. Ferrari (which as is known at the time managed and prepared Alfa Romeo cars).

It is therefore estimated that Nuvolari could have earned almost half a million lire a year, including wages, bonuses, and Scuderia fees. This was a very high figure for the time, much more than the math suggests (for example, if you compare Alonso's 40 million lire a year, the highest-paid driver in F1, with the 13,000 euros a year of a factory worker).

Another interesting fact is the value of the accident and life insurance policy, equal to almost 10% of the value of the salary.

The other interesting fact remains the distribution of prize money. In an era before media rights, one of the main sources of revenue for racing teams was the prize money awarded by the organizers. The agreement reveals a distribution that was quite favorable to Nuvolari: a full half of the prize money went to the driver.