Luigi Musso Artwork
Wally Thomason honors the ’50s Italian racer.
Perhaps no one ever looked so much the part of the romantic ’50s driver as did the Roman Luigi Musso. Elegant, somewhat aristocratic, and (sadly) disdainful of his peers, he really did have the look. Teamed at Ferrari with the outgoing and boisterous Mike Hawthorn, he was never able to match the Englishman’s verve – this probably played some part in his death on the first lap at Reims in 1958.
