Alfa Romeo Tipo 33
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The Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 was range of sports racing prototypes raced by the Alfa Romeo factory-backed team between 1967 and 1977. Initially it was powered by a 2 liter V8. Originally intended as 50 cars for Group 4 homologation, less than two dozen road going cars were derived from it in 1967, called Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale. Later versions had the V8 increased to the 3 liter size allowed since 1968 for Group 6 prototypes in the World Sportscar Championship, but there it had to face also 5 liter engines in Group 4 sportscars that had been built in series of 25 or more.
Anyway, the T33/3 won three races of the 1971 World Sportscar Championship otherwise dominated by Porsche 917. The T33 cars took part for Sport Cars World Championship, Nordic Challenge Cup, Interserie and CanAm series. Alfa then moved on to a 3 liter flat-12 engine later also used in Brabham F1 cars, and in Alfas own F1 car. The 33TT12 Alfa Romeo won the 1975 World Championship for Makes, and the 33SC12 the 1977 World Championship for Sports Cars, taking the first place in all eight of the championship races.
From the Wikipedia article Alfa Romeo Tipo 33, CC BY-SA.
This is the catalogue record of the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33, one of 194 models Alfa Romeo has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1966. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Toyota Toyota Corolla, the Lamborghini Lamborghini Miura, the Dodge Dodge Charger — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 1995 cc 90° V8 / 270 bhp @ 9,600 rpm; kerb weight is recorded at 580 kg; drive goes through 6-speed manual; the layout is Rear mid-engine, rear wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Alfa Romeo's own catalogue the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 sits alongside the A.L.F.A 12 HP, the A.L.F.A 15 HP, the A.L.F.A 15-20 HP, the A.L.F.A 24 HP. Design is credited to Carlo Chiti.
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