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1936 Alfa Romeo 2900A – Supreme Road RacerStory by Ed McDonoughViews differ as to the meaning of the phrase...’the good old days’. In this story, it means when you could buy a new car from your local dealer and later discover it had won the Mille Miglia!In April 1936 there were three works Alfa Romeos entered in the Mille Miglia. The three team cars were very basic with … [Read more...]
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 - 1960, which were classified … [Read more...]
The Mille Miglia Storica returned to the roads of Italy on May 13-17, 2009 for another 1,000 mile road rally from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia."The legend has won. After last year's enormous success, the world's greatest road race has surpassed itself to become even greater," said Alessandro Casali, President of the Organizing Committee of the Mille Miglia, at the Awards Ceremony which … [Read more...]
BMW and the Mille Miglia are united by a shared history that goes back a long way. The triumphs of the BMW 328 are as inseparably linked with this 1,000-mile race as the winning appearance of the BMW 507 in the late 1950s.BMW Classic is writing a further chapter of this historic narrative at the 2009 Mille Miglia. An icon of BMW racing history, normally only on view at the BMW Museum, has been … [Read more...]
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