The true story of the rider from Fiume who called himself Marama Toyo — the man who brought speedway to Italy — and of the Galbusera V8, the most sensational motorcycle engine of its time, which vanished without a trace.
A First World War veteran back from Siberia in 1920, Marama became a seaman, discovered dirt-track racing in Australia and brought it to Italy, from the Montebello racecourse in Trieste to Friuli. With Plinio Galbusera, a small builder from Brescia and Salò, he designed an eight-cylinder, two-stroke, supercharged 500 cc engine, unveiled at the 1938 Milan Motorcycle Show to international astonishment.
War destroyed the dream: Galbusera's workshop burned under the bombs of 1944–45, Marama died racing in Trieste in 1946, and the prototypes disappeared. Years of research by the Historical Office of the Moto Club Trieste reveal the truth behind the legend.
- A film by
- Swan Bergman
- Setting
- Trieste, Fiume, Friuli, Brescia, Milan — 1920s–1940s
- Historical research
- Moto Club Trieste Historical Office and the authors
- Produced by
- NEW DESIGN MOVIE