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    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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    Mugello 1920, 1921 Coppa Acerbo 1927, 1928, 1931 French Grand Prix 1924, 1933 Italian Grand Prix 1931 Mille Miglia 1928, 1929 (key) (Races in bold indicate...
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    Alfonso de Portago (category 1928 births)
    dead straight road at 150 mph (240 km/h) in the 1957 running of the Mille Miglia, killing Portago, his navigator, and nine spectators. The young age of...
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    Aymo Maggi (category Mille Miglia drivers)
    Italian racing car driver from Brescia and co-organiser of the first Mille Miglia automobile race in 1927. Aymo Maggi was born to Berardo Tommaso Francesco...
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    Gianni Marzotto (category Mille Miglia drivers)
    April 1928 in Valdagno, Italy – 14 July 2012) was an Italian racing driver and entrepreneur. Marzotto served as President of the Mille Miglia Club and...
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    the historic Mille Miglia 1,000-mile race that takes place in Italy annually. The carmaker built just 11 examples of the 'Spider Mille Miglia' to mark the...
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  • championship events see related season articles. List of 1928 motorsport champions "Mille Miglia - 1928". grandprixhistory.org. Retrieved 16 April 2017. "19^...
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    Mercedes-Benz SSK (category Mille Miglia)
    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 in the penultimate round of...
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  • displacement. The 6C 1500 Sport won, for the first time for Alfa Romeo, the Mille Miglia (1928). This success was followed by two more victories (1929 and 1930)...
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    second in the 1950 Mille Miglia. He retired from racing full-time after sustaining serious injuries during the 1951 Mille Miglia, which required multiple...
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    Maria Antonietta Avanzo (category Mille Miglia drivers)
    numerous events throughout her career, including the Targa Florio and the Mille Miglia. In 1921, she famously drove a twelve-cylinder Packard 299 on the beach...
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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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    manufacturers Sabaf and Cavagna, etc. Brescia is home to the prestigious Mille Miglia classic car race that starts and ends in the town. In the arts, it was...
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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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    Alfa Romeo 6C (category Mille Miglia)
    In 1928, the 6C Sport model was released, with a dual overhead-camshaft engine. Its sport version won many races, including the 1928 Mille Miglia. Total...
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    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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  • (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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  • Angelo Guatta (category Mille Miglia drivers)
    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 an Alfa Romeo 6C or 8C...
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    Umberto Maglioli (category 1928 births)
    the Targa Florio race nineteen times, winning it three times, and the Mille Miglia ten times, with the best result being a second place in the Lancia Aurelia...
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  • Carrozzeria Allemano (category Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1928)
    Carrozzeria Allemano created were the Ferrari 166 S (which won the 1948 Mille Miglia with Clemente Biondetti behind the wheel), Alfa Romeo 2500 (1950) and...
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    driving a Simca-Gordini. In 1952 Pagani finished second in class in the Mille Miglia, driving an OSCA but was more involved with motorcycle racing and became...
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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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    Hans Herrmann (category 1928 births)
    the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He took part in now legendary road races like Mille Miglia, Targa Florio and Carrera Panamericana and is one of the few remaining...
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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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    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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    finished first in the Grand Prix class and ninth overall. For the 1928 Mille Miglia endurance race, two new chassis were fitted with roadster bodies featuring...
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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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    Herbert Linge (category 1928 births)
    He became famous for being the co-driver of Hans Herrmann in the 1954 Mille Miglia, when their low Porsche 550 passed under a closed railroad crossing,...
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    long distance racing. The Ferrari 315 S with this engine won the last Mille Miglia in 1957. Type 141 also debuted in 1957 on the Ferrari 335 S. Having even...
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    win for Bentley in the 1927 Le Mans and the success of the inaugural Mille Miglia road-race grabbing the public's attention, more races turned to sports-...
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