Sports Car Digest - The Sports, Racing and Vintage Car Journal
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The design department at Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) – which had not yet merged with Benz & Cie – began developing Mercedes compressor vehicles in 1919. Gottlieb Daimler's son Paul, who had succeeded Wilhelm Maybach as technical director and board member in 1907, drove the development work forward. DMG already had some experience with mechanical supercharging because compressor … [Read more...]
Big changes are in store for the inaugural Mille Miglia North America Tribute. The 1,000 mile rally shifted the date of the event from August to October, in addition to moving the starting location from Monterey to Santa Barbara, California. The Mille Miglia North America Tribute will now be held October 25-29, 2011, starting and ending in Santa Barbara. Previously, the event was scheduled for … [Read more...]
The Mille Miglia 2012 will be staged 17-20 May along the historic route from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia. “We have an ambitious goal," said Alessandro Casali, President of the Mille Miglia Organising Committee, "and that is to beat the record success of the 2011 edition. The organising machinery is already working to arrange every single detail, to look into any further improvement, … [Read more...]
There is confusion in the classic car community regarding the California Mille and its association with the new Mille Miglia North America Tribute. We try our best to explain. The California Mille has been conducted as a 1,000 mile rally in Northern California each spring for the past 21 years. Event founder Martin Swig started the event in honor of Italy’s famed Mille Miglia (thousand mile) … [Read more...]
By Will Silk James Fontana’s new book The 1000 Mile Dream is a fictional piece that parallels the actual running of a Mille Miglia event during those glorious days of the early 1950s. While purists and historians will have to take a moment to perhaps adjust from time to time in reference to how close the author gets to the actual event, the story is nonetheless very entertaining and filled … [Read more...]
The Mille Miglia 2011 took place 11-14 May in Italy on the historic roads from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia. There are 375 cars built between 1927 and 1957 challenging each other and themselves in the modern revival. Far more than a historic car rally, the Mille Miglia Storica is a virtual step back to the era of 1927 to 1957 when these racing cars roared across the Italian countryside … [Read more...]
The Ferrari Tribute to Mille Miglia 2011 took place May 11-14, starting and ending in Brescia, Italy. After three days of competition, the 150 post-1957 Ferraris entered crossed the finish-line in Brescia on the night of Saturday, May 14th. The original Mille Miglia race was last held in 1957 and this is also the cut-off year of manufacture for cars entering the contemporary race, thus … [Read more...]
The Mille Miglia Storica 2011 was conducted May 11-14, starting and ending in Brescia, Italy. Along the historic route from Brescia to Rome and back, 375 cars—selected from over 1,400 requests—built between 1927 and 1957 challenged each other and themselves in the modern-day revival of the famed Mille Miglia. The participants crossed seven regions of Italy, 177 towns, and one foreign state … [Read more...]
In April 1931, Rudolf Caracciola became the first non-Italian to win the Mille Miglia road race. Alongside his co-driver Wilhelm Sebastian, the Mercedes-Benz works team driver won the 1,635km race, which took place from 12 to 13 April 1931, in a Mercedes-Benz SSKL racing car. Caracciola achieved an average speed of 101.1 km/h in the race from Brescia to Rome and back. It was the first time that … [Read more...]
Mercedes-Benz Classic will have three of the legendary compressor cars lined up on the starting grid at the 2011 Mille Miglia: Two Mercedes-Benz cars – an SS model and an SSK model – will commemorate Rudolf Caracciola's fabled victory in April 1931 at this year's exclusive event, which takes place from 11 to 15 May 2011. Back in 1931, with an average speed of 101.1 km/h, the Mercedes-Benz … [Read more...]
Photos by Dennis Gray and Bob Ross The 21th running of the California Mille was held April 24-28, 2011 on the secondary roads of Northern California. As always, the California Mille departs San Francisco bright and early from its traditional starting line at the famed Fairmont Hotel, located atop Nob Hill. Similar to the 2010 edition, we convinced Senior Photographer Dennis Gray to made the … [Read more...]
For the 2011 edition of the historic Mille Miglia tribute, the Alfa Romeo Historic Motoring team will be lining up three official Museum vehicles which, in accordance with the regulations, took part in the Mille Miglia race, held from 1927 to 1957, and which saw Alfa vehicles triumph some eleven times: a record which remains unbeaten. From 1928 to 1947, the Mille Miglia was one of the great … [Read more...]
The inaugural Mille Miglia North American Tribute will be held in advance of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and Historic Automotive weekend, running August 14th through August 17th, 2011. The 1,000 mile experience will be produced in the spirit of the of the original Mille Miglia in Italy, on a California coast route running through the landscapes of Carmel, Santa Barbara, and Napa … [Read more...]
The Coppa Milano-Sanremo historical revival is back for the ninth year in a row, to be held 11 to 13 March, 2011 in Italy. This year's event will take a new form, as partners Automobile Club Milano and MAC Group plan to re-launch the famous competition as a classic regularity event. Sandro Binelli, MAC Group President, comments, "I would like to thank Geronimo La Russa, Vice President of … [Read more...]
The Mille Miglia 2011 will take place from Wednesday, May the 11th (optional), to Sunday, May the 15th in Italy. With applications for entry due soon, the event organizers MAC Group are staying busy not only with applications but also by growing the events surrounding the Mille Miglia. While the 2010 edition of the Mille Miglia saw the addition of a Ferrari Tribute, the biggest change for 2011 … [Read more...]
