Lancia Fulvia Fanalone
Lancia was famous for their engineering innovations; they were famous for their craftsmanship. They were famous for turning a blind eye to what this all cost. As a business model not so good—but for creating amazing automobiles “Esecuzione domestica,” great! The Fulvia was Lancia’s official reentry into the racing world after leaving Formula 1 in 1955. Enclosed tracks were no longer their battlefields, they were going rallying! In 1965 Lancia saw their own Cesare Fiorio was doing good things with his privateer team, HF Squadra Corse. It soon became the factory’s semi-works team. HF for High Fidelity. Nothing to do with sound, but the fact that the team members owned nothing but Lancias. The team distinguished themselves in competition and by 1969 they were the official Works team. At that time the car of choice was the Fulvia. They had taken 8th place at the Tour de Corse in the team Fulvia Coupe. To homologate, the car’s special versions were offered to the
