A wealthy man, Alborghetti commissioned designer Gianpaolo Volpini and engineer Egidio Arzani to build him a Grand Prix car to drive.

[2] The special was entered for the 1955 Turin Grand Prix but work was not finished and the team failed to arrive.

Alborghetti seemed to hit the wrong pedal as he came to the bend, pressing the accelerator instead of the brakes and ploughing into the straw bales.

[5] Several spectators received minor injuries in the accident while Alborghetti suffered fatal chest and head wounds, the impact having torn his helmet off.

[6] The Volpini-Arzani special was mothballed until the 1955 Italian Grand Prix, when it was unsuccessfully entered for Luigi Piotti before disappearing once again.