Alfa Corse is

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's factory racing team. Throughout the years, Alfa Corse has competed in various forms of motorsport, from

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. Alfa Corse was officially formed in the beginning of 1938, after the racing department was moved back from unofficial factory team

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to " il Portello".

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was still in charge of department, but left one year later to build his own cars under the name Auto-Avio Costruzioni. From 1961 Alfa Romeo factory racing team was run by

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. Alfa Romeo was purchased by the

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in 1986, and in 1987, Giorgio Pianta was moved from the management of Abarth to restart Alfa Corse. After aborted attempts at producing the 164 Procar with

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and moving into the

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, Alfa Corse settled on a return to touring car racing, starting with the Italian CIVT series, in 1992, with the 155 GTA. In 1993, Alfa Corse entered the DTM with the AWD V6-powered 155 TI, and created a

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model, that would go on to win the Italian Superturismo, the

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and the Spanish Touring Car Championship. Alfa Romeo withdrew from the DTM (renamed "International Touring Car Championship") at the end of 1996, and Pianta was replaced by Francesco Galletto. When the

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replaced the 155, it was developed for Supertouring and Superproduction classes, racing in the

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. In 2001, Alfa Corse merged with Mauro Sipsz's independent firm, Nordauto Engineering, to form

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