The first 8C was tested in 1923, with the P1, already fitted with a compressor and twin spark ignition, and then the P2. Its debut could not have gone better: in 1925 the Alfa Romeo P2 won first ...

It was first used in the Alfa Romeo P2 Grand Prix car and later in the road version 6C 1500, which was introduced to the motoring public in 1925 and produced between 1927 and 1929. The Alfa Romeo ...

Ferrari later persuaded Vittorio Jano to leave Fiat and join Alfa Romeo as chief designer. Jano later designed the P2 Grand Prix car that won the inaugural World Manufacturers' Championship in 1925.