In her most famous work, the 1925 " Self-portrait in the green Bugatti" , she portrayed herself as an independent woman of beauty, wealth, and fashion.
That was a very black day on which two other drivers, Stanislav Tchaikovsky in a Bugatti and Bakunin Borsakini in a Works Maserati, both lost their lives.
And especially when you go across all echelons of the socioeconomic ladder, from a council estate in Luton, a single mother, to sitting around with the Bugatti Owners Club, you've seen the game at every point.
Campari was in a new Alfa P2, a supercharged 2.0-litre 8-cylinder car that would fight it out with the Bugatti Type 35 for dominance in Grand Prix racing for the second half of the 1920s.
But the cars were being outclassed by their rivals from Bugatti and Maserati, and Nuvolari suddenly left the team when his request that it be renamed the Scuderia Nuvolari Ferrari was turned down.