Alex Zanardi: The man whose name is a synonym for “hero”

After the death of Alex Zanardi, we revisit David Malsher-Lopez's tribute to the Italian originally published in December 2020. In a motorsport season wracked, wrecked and rebuilt – often on the fly – by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, fans came to expect the worst. When the greatest racer of his generation Sir Stirling Moss, died in April, it was deeply sad, a punch to the gut of ...