Count Giannino Marzotto, winner of the Mille Miglia in 1950 and 1953, died in Padua Hospital in July after a long illness. He was 84. Marzotto will forever be remembered as the 22-year-old who took on the cream of world motor racing in 1950 and beat them at their own game, winning the Mille Miglia while wearing an impeccable double-breasted suit, white shirt and tie in his privately entered blue Ferrari 195 S coupé. He said afterward that he drove in his everyday attire because anything else would have distracted him from his objective of winning the race. That double-breasted suit is now part of motor sport folklore and is on display at the Mille Miglia museum in Brescia.
In occasione della premiazione della Mille Miglia 1953.
Count Giannino and his regular co-driver Marco Crosara won the race again in 1953, this time in a works Ferrari 340 MM (above). They beat 749 other entries, including the likes of Formula One World Champions Juan Manuel Fangio, Giuseppe Farina and Mike Hawthorn, as well as Stirling Moss, Luigi Villoresi and Eugenio Castellotti.
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