Editing Tazio Nuvolari (section)

===Motorcycle racing===
Nuvolari obtained his license for motorcycle racing in 1915 at the age of 23.<ref name="officialsite_bio_1" /> He served in the Italian army as an ambulance driver in [[World War I]], and in 1920{{sfn|Hilton|2003|page=24}} took part in his first motorcycle race at the Circuito Internazionale Motoristico in [[Cremona]]<ref name="officialsite_bio_1" /> but did not finish.{{sfn|Hilton|2003|page=254}} He also raced cars, winning the Coppa Verona reliability trial in 1921.{{sfn|Hilton|2003|page=254}}

In 1925 he became the 350&nbsp;cc European Motorcycling champion by winning the European Grand Prix. At the time, the European Grand Prix was considered the most important race of the motorcycling season and the winners in each category were designated ''European Champions''.<ref name="racing_memory_1925">{{cite web |url=http://racingmemo.free.fr/M%20HISTOIRE/M-HIST%201925.htm |title=History of the motorcycle race: 1925 |access-date=18 April 2007|publisher=Racing Memory|language=fr}}</ref> He won the [[Nations Grand Prix]] four times between 1925 and 1928,<ref name="racing_memory_nations">{{cite web |url=http://racingmemo.free.fr/M%20GRAND%20PRIX/MGP-PALM-ITA.htm |title=History of the Nations Grand Prix and the Italian Grand Prix |access-date=18 April 2007|publisher=Racing Memory|language=fr}}</ref> and the Lario Circuit race five times between 1925 and 1929, all in the 350&nbsp;cc class on a [[Bianchi (motorcycles)|Bianchi]] motorcycle.<ref name="racing_memory_lario">{{cite web |url=http://racingmemo.free.fr/M%20COURSES%20INTER/MOTO%20LARIO.htm |title=Il Circuito del Lario |access-date=20 August 2007|publisher=Racing Memory|language=fr}}</ref>

It was also in 1925 that [[Alfa Romeo in motorsport|Alfa Romeo]], seeking a driver to replace [[Antonio Ascari]], who had been killed in the [[French Grand Prix]] in July, tested Nuvolari in their Grand Prix car with a view to running him in the [[Italian Grand Prix]] in September. He crashed when the gearbox seized,{{sfn|Walker|Taylor|2001|pages=17-20}} and severely [[wound|lacerated]] his back.{{sfn|Pritchard|1998|page=60}} He was not picked for the team. Six days later, in bandages, with a cushion strapped to his stomach, and lifted onto his motorcycle by Bianchi mechanics for a push-start, he won the rain-soaked Nations Grand Prix at [[Autodromo Nazionale Monza|Monza]].{{sfn|Hilton|2003|page=27}}{{sfn|Walker|Taylor|2001|pages=17-20}}