My grandfather Guido Venosta, born in 1911, was the son of Giuseppe, a Pirelli engineer from the early 20th century who had the good fortune to experience the heroic season of tyres and the first Grand Prix races. The family albums preserve many photographs of races from the 1920s, in which great-grandfather Giuseppe is photographed with champions such as Campari, Nazzaro, Minoia and Antonio Ascari, and with his son Guido, who often followed his father.
In this peculiarly framed image, unfortunately much ruined by time, little Guido seems to have stooped down to allow the lens of a possibly kneeling person to pick him up, while in the background we see men in dark overcoats leaning against something (nets or fences) while others are carrying chairs, as was the custom in the races at the first motor racing circuits where there was barely a small grandstand.
It is not known under what circumstances the photograph was taken, but they liked it so much that many copies were made, especially enlargements of the child, which are still in the Archives today.
