The Last Great Race

Achille Varzi: the most successful of his time; hero to his followers; worshipped by the women in his life; driven to succeed. Told partly through the eyes of Varzi and partly by fictional Italian-Australian journalist Paul Bassi, we follow the many triumphs and tragedies of Varzi’s life: his passionate love affairs, his tragic addictions, his recovery, his marriage and his re-signing to race once more. This is a fictionalised account of a real-life story that seems too incredible to be true, only it is.