Driving a 1937 BMW 328 Touring from the BMW museum in Munich, Bologna industrialist Giuliano Canè won this May’s Mille Miglia Storica for a record 7th time in 11 years. Canè and his navigator, wife Lucia, beat a field of 370 cars built between 1927 and 1957, many of them open top roadsters in which the crews were soaked from start to finish in one of the wettest Mille Miglia re-runs on record.
“This is a race with something special,” said Canè after winning his 7th Mille Miglia Storica. “We compete for the hundreds of thousands of people who put up with bad weather like this to stand at the side of the road and applaud us. But to drive 1600 kms like this in an open car is hard. It is true that I have trained for this event, but a distance like that is still exhausting.”
Canè won the Mille Miglia Storica in 1992 driving a 1957 BMW 507; 1994 in a 1957 Lancia Aurelia B20; 1996, 1998 and 2000 in a 1937 BMW 328 MM, and 1999 in a 1953 Ferrari 340 MM.
Canè and his wife Lucia won this year’s MMS with a total of 11,094 points, a massive 2,420 ahead of 2nd placed Sielecki-Hervas from Argentina in a 1929 4.5-liter Bentley SC and Vescoe-Vesco of Italy in their 1935 Fiat 508 S Coppa D’Oro.
Submitted by Robert Newman
