Seeing double! Not at all, This is a recently found photo, circa 1973, when my brother Gio got started as a novice. He's seen here rounding the Westwood hairpin in our second 124 Coupe (I had no idea about this one) followed by Norm Matovich.

That's me, little Joe standing next to my favorite car. This picture was taken around 1975. Same 124 Coupe, just a different color scheme. Italian's just love to fly the flag don't they? As proud as I am of my Italian heritage, this is just about the last color scheme I would personally ever choose for my own race car. By this time the Coupe was fully developped and it had a few new features including a front spoiler, improved suspension and better brakes.

The spoiler was questionable for B-Sedan but it worked in ICSCC (International Conference of Sports Car Clubs) in B Improved Sedan. Conference also saw the car running an 1800 though both my dad and brother admit the 1608 was the better engine.

My brother Gio was also driving the car now and he too had a pretty successful time with the car. Eventually though, Gio moved to a 2 liter Alfa Romeo GTV as it was considered to be the better performer. The car did prove competitive but it never matched the pace and success of this little 124. My one regret is that I was not old enough to have driven this car myself.

On the left, Gio spitting out another 510. On the right, sharing the front row with Georges Boucher's Renault. These two cars had some great battles. The 124 was generally the better of the two cars but they were often pretty tight. This image also gives another nice perspective of the beautiful mountain setting that Westwood provided its racers. Here, the cars are coming down the back straight on the pace lap cresting Deer's leap in the background and descending towards the hairpin. Big grids, beautiful track. That was the magic of Westwood. We miss it.

The official event programme was a great publication. It was more of a racer's magazine that it was a race programme. Lots of cool info, tech talk, classifieds and great pictures like this one.

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