“Wow, I could have had an 8V!” Can you imagine if Fiat had hired actor Ronald Reagan in 1952 to...
The 1955 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1955 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: May 1-2, 1955 / Winner: Moss – Jenkinson...
At the 2015 Mille Miglia retrospective, Mercedes-Benz celebrated the 60th anniversary of its famed overall win at the 1955 Mille Miglia. Three of the greatest heroes of the thousand-mile race in 1955 returned to the route between Brescia and Rome. Together with the legendary Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (W 196 S)...
This exquisitely done painting depicts Juan Manuel Fangio, the five-time Formula One World Champion, finishing 5th in the 1956 Mille...
The 1956 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1956 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 29-30 1956 / Winner: Castellotti / Winning...
Few early American racers did more than Ak Miller. He was a well-known hot rodder, successful long-distance racer, had more than one legendary run in The Carrera Panamericana in the 1950s, was a frequent winner at the hillclimbs at Pikes Peak, tried his hand at road racing, and even roared...
The 1957 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1957 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: May 12-13, 1957 / Winner: Taruffi / Winning...
The 1987 season was my first year in Formula One. I had sponsorship from Lois jeans and Mr. Minardi offered...
In 1977, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Mille Miglia Cup, the Brescia Automobile Club decided to organize the Mille Miglia Rally on local roads, as a regularity event with competitive speed trials – a format already adopted for the last three Mille Miglia races organized from 1958 –...
The Mille Miglia Storica returned to the roads of Italy on May 13-17, 2009 for another 1,000 mile road rally...
The 2010 Mille Miglia will be held May 6-9, starting and ending in Brescia, Italy. After the success of this...
The California Mille will once again take participants on a tour of Northern California this April 24-27, all in celebration of a classic Italian event. Some 70 vintage vehicles that could have been eligible for the original Mille Miglia, which ran from 1927 to 1957 as Italy’s most famous open-road...
With 400 vintage cars, thirty less than last year, in order to ensure greater safety and quality of service to...
The Board of Directors of 1000 Miglia srl, in agreement with the Automobile Club of Brescia, has approved a five-week...
Entries for the 1000 Miglia 2021 are now being accepted through January 18th. Only seven months after last October’s autumn edition, the race returns to its original scheduling: the 39th re-enacment of the 1000 Miglia will start from Brescia on Wednesday, May 12th, where it will finish on Saturday, May 15th,...
Details have been released for the 40th running of the 1000 Miglia, June 15–18, 2022, with entry applications now being...
Organizers of the 2023 1000 Miglia 2023 have announced that the venerable event has been expanded to now cover 5...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a...
Alfa Romeo had gone from zero to hero and beyond from the 1911 Targa Florio to the 1936 Mille Miglia. Its motor racing exploits were followed by the entire Italian nation as cars like the 1750 Super Sport, 8C 2300 Monza, P2 and then the P3 drove it to the...
Spring is in the air and historic sports cars are being fettled for the Mille Miglia, except they’re not. They...
Sometimes, knowing someone results is a surprise. I’ve known Mike Marsh for a number of years. He created the EuroFest...
The 2007 Mille Miglia, which starts from Brescia on May 17 and concludes in the Italian financial and industrial center on the 19th, will be packed with historic milestones. The first event was run 80 years ago this year; the last came to grief with the De Portago accident 50...
Robert Newman examines the men and machines that made the Mille Miglia one of the world’s greatest races. The Mille...
The 2009 edition of Italy’s Mille Miglia Storica attracted its usual mixed bag of royalty, politicians, motor racing icons, and...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical illusions can be. Only three Mirage M2s were ever built. They showed potential in the World Sports Car series, but their development was cut short when Porsche came knocking at...
Achille Varzi was the opposite of his capricious nemesis Tazio Nuvolari, who was steeped in instinctive talent. Varzi was a...
Alberto Ascari intrigues me – while I can’t claim to know a great deal about him. Like so many of...
The Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Alfa Romeo with a broad array of the famed Italian cars in Westport, Connecticut, on the weekend of September 12–13. Headlining the show will be a trio of classic Alfas, an original, unrestored 1938 8C 2900...