The Mille Miglia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmille ˈmiʎʎa], Thousand Miles) was an open-road, motorsport endurance race established in 1927 by the young...
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Giuseppe Tuffanelli (category Mille Miglia drivers)
racing driver. He participated in twelve races between 1930 and 1937, most of which were Mille Miglia. Racing Sports Cars Formula2.net Formula2.net Teamdan...
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Tazio Nuvolari (category Mille Miglia drivers)
major races, 150 in all—included 24 Grands Prix, five Coppa Cianos, two Mille Miglias, two Targa Florios, two RAC Tourist Trophies, a Le Mans 24-hour race...
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1930 motorsport champions "II Grand Prix de Monaco". kolumbus.fi. Archived from the original on 18 July 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2017. "Mille Miglia -...
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Eugenio Castellotti (category 1930 births)
Eugenio Castellotti (10 October 1930 – 14 March 1957) was a racing driver from Italy. He won the 1956 Mille Miglia and 1956 12 Hours of Sebring, and took...
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for Spider Mille Miglia, was manufactured, adorning all subsequent competition cars bearing the MM designation. At the 1947 Mille Miglia, the Cisitalia...
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Nash-Healey (section 1952 Mille Miglia)
coupe. These cars competed in four consecutive Le Mans races and one Mille Miglia. Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton debuted the prototype at Le Mans in 1950...
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Adolf Brudes (category Mille Miglia drivers)
podium finish in the 1940 Mille Miglia. The race ran over a shortened course, under the title of Gran Premio Bescia delle Mille Miglia. Brudes was paired with...
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Europe's most important races, as neither the 24 Hours of Le Mans nor the Mille Miglia had been established yet. Grand Prix races were still isolated events...
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Angelo Guatta (category Mille Miglia drivers)
the 1932 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Circuito del Sud in 1930, Guatta entered the Mille Miglia seven times between 1928 and 1938. In all his races he used...
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and light body for the car, which scored a 2nd place OA at the 1927 Mille Miglia and won the 1928 edition. The 6C 1500 technical qualities were also improved...
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Mercedes-Benz SSK (category Mille Miglia)
Trophy race (Ards road circuit), the 1930 Irish Grand Prix, the 1931 German Grand Prix, and the 1931 Mille Miglia. The S/SS/SSK line was one of the nominees...
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Alfa Romeo (redirect from Alfa Romeo Mille Aerfer)
(Caproni-Fuscaldo) in the Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 with "Ala spessa" body in 1940 Mille Miglia. The engine had six electrically operated injectors, fed by a semi-high...
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Franco Cortese (category Mille Miglia drivers)
Formula 2 Grands Prix. Cortese holds the record of most finishes in a Mille Miglia race: fourteen. Besides having entered many races in an Alfa Romeo, Cortese...
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Campari win his second consecutive Coppa Acerbo and his first at the Mille Miglia. He earned a second-place finish in the Targa Florio, a race he entered...
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2023-06-20. Facconi, Attilio (2017-04-05). "The Racing Car: Mille Miglia e O.M. in mostra" [Mille Miglia an O.M. on show]. GardaPost (in Italian). Brescia, Italy...
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Achille Varzi (category Mille Miglia drivers)
became the first driver in history to hold both the Targa Florio and Mille Miglia title in one season[page needed] Although the Alfa Romeo team had proved...
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ought to have." Cars that have had a Kammback include: 1940 BMW 328 "Mille Miglia" Kamm coupé 1952 Cunningham C-4RK + 1958-1963 Lotus Elite 1961 Ferrari...
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Alfa Romeo 6C (category Mille Miglia)
and the Mille Miglia was won by Giuseppe Campari and Giulio Ramponi. The car also won the Brooklands Double Twelve and the Ulster TT. In 1930 the car...
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Baconin Borzacchini (category Mille Miglia drivers)
1100cc) 1926, 1927 Etna Cup 1928 Tripoli Grand Prix 1930 Coppa Principe di Piemonte 1931 Mille Miglia 1932 (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)...
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1929 and 1930 Mille Miglia in a Bugatti, with Amedeo Bignami as co-driver. He also retired from the 1929 Circuito di Bordino. Sometime near 1930 he moved...
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Rudolf Caracciola (category Mille Miglia drivers)
specialist in wet track racing. He partnered Werner in the Mille Miglia and Le Mans endurance races in 1930; they finished sixth in the former but were forced...
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1933 Isle of Man and 1934 Northern Ireland Tourist Trophy races and the Mille Miglia (both reprinted in ) Although these were not intended as everyday road...
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Luigi Fagioli (category Mille Miglia drivers)
drive sports cars. He finished in third place at the 1952 edition of the Mille Miglia ahead of arch rival Caracciola. In June, while practising for the Monaco...
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the P2 and P3 and in their Alfa Romeo 8C 2300/2600/2900 sports cars of Mille Miglia and Le Mans fame the camshaft drive had been moved to the engine centre...
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see use in classic events. Rally ABC's took part in the 1932 and 1933 Mille Miglia road races, and finished third and fourth at the San Sebastián Grand...
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German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring. Notably, Tazio Nuvolari won the 1930 Mille Miglia in a 6C 1750 after having overtaken Achille Varzi with the headlights...
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race-betting at the Monaco GP. In just four years, the Mille Miglia had quickly earned a premier reputation. The 1930 edition provided one of the most thrilling races...
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there. Like a rally event (and events like the Isle of Man TT and the Mille Miglia), the race cars were started one by one every 15 seconds for a time trial...
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Pietro Ghersi (category Mille Miglia drivers)
with Attilio Marinoni in an Alfa Romeo 6C. In 1932 Ghersi was in the Mille Miglia and XXII Targa Florio in an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300. In 1933, with himself...
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