Topic: Solved FW #18 Lancia Aprilia Zagato 1938, Eugenio Minetti, TT Donington

[fromwien]

Please identify this car: Make? Type? Coachbuilder? Race? Driver? Year?

Good luck!

[727]

Lancia Aprilia by Zagato, I think the picture is from around 1938? I found an identical #32 but not #27

[fromwien]

Locked for you! Perfect found!
It is a Lancia Aprilia Zagato and it raced in 1938! Now you have three trials to find the race and car's driver....

[727]

Was the driver Luigi Villoresi?

[fromwien]

No, far less known than Villoresi

[727]

I've been digging with no results. 
Feel free to unlock.

[fromwien]

I will give you a hint: The first letter of the surname is an M, followed by six letters....

[fromwien]

Sorry, but unlocked...

[727]

 Eugenio Minetti?

[fromwien]

Yes! Correct! You have it! There is now only a short way to your most deserved point: Where did he race #27 in 1938? Should be very easy now...
Locked for you

[727]

Targa Abruzzi, Pescara, Italy.

[fromwien]

No, not Targa Abruzzi, Pescara. And not Italy!

[727]

 RAC Tourist Trophy (UK)?

[fromwien]

Yes! Tourist Trophy, Donington.
The point is yours!

[727]

Thank you 

[fromwien]

Here within the reason, why I insisted to name the driver (copy from another website) with this puzzle:
'...Eugenio Minetti (Milan, 1908-1995) was one of the founder of the Scuderia Ambrosiana of Milan with Cortese, Lurani and Villoresi. His father Enrico was the most important Lancia dealer in Italy since 1911, he was also the first to sell Lancias in the USA, opening a commercial office in the 6th street of New York in late '20s.
And Enrico Minetti was the man, who commissioned the construction of the three or four racing Aprilia Sport at Ugo Zagatos bodyshop. All these cars have been destroyed due to WW II. To celebrate the centenary of Lancia (2006) Andrea Zagato decided to create a Lancia Aprilia Sport identical to the car his grandfather Ugo built in 1938.