The same graph that proves this argument also proves a narrower one: the F40's own engineer, Nicola Materazzi, worked on a Lancia and a Bugatti besides, decades apart, for marques that share no history of their own. Two proofs, one machine, both stored as real, checkable connections rather than editorial claims.

That is the method of this Gazette, volume after volume: never begin with the most famous name. Begin with the connection that survives scrutiny, and follow it wherever the record leads.

Welcome to Volume I, Number 0.