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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The 1954 Mille Miglia (officially XXI Mille Miglia ), was a motor race open to Sports Cars, GT cars and Touring Cars. It was the 21st Mille Miglia and...
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The 23. edizione Mille Miglia was an auto race held on a 992.332 mile (1597 km) course made up entirely of public roads around Italy, mostly on the outer...
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Grand tourer (section 1950 Mille Miglia)
in the World Sportscar Championship in round three of the 1954 season at the Mille Miglia (the first placed GT being the Lancia Aurelia B20 GT of Serafini...
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Ferrari 250 MM (category Mille Miglia)
berlinetta bodywork by Pinin Farina. The "MM" in its name stood for the Mille Miglia race. The 250 MM was the second of the ubiquitous 3.0-litre Colombo-engined...
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Ferrari Monza (section 1954–1955)
Luigi Villoresi, placing second to a 375 MM. In 1954 four 500 Mondials were entered in the Mille Miglia race, with best result being second overall after...
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events. Driving an Alfa Romeo 8C 2900b, Clemente Biondetti won the 1938 Mille Miglia for sports cars and at the Coppa Ciano finished second in the voiturette...
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2012). "John Elkann al via della Mille Miglia 2012". Motori.it (in Italian). Retrieved 6 March 2023. "Brescia, Mille Miglia 2012: John Elkann correrà su una...
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Gianni Marzotto (category Mille Miglia drivers)
and entrepreneur. Marzotto served as President of the Mille Miglia Club and won the Mille Miglia race in 1950 and 1953. He was one of four sons of Count...
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Stirling Moss (section Mille Miglia)
In endurance racing, Moss won the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1954, as well as the Mille Miglia in 1955 with Mercedes. Born and raised in London, Moss was...
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Alberto Ascari (category Mille Miglia drivers)
Grands Prix across six seasons. In endurance racing, Ascari won the Mille Miglia in 1954 with Lancia. Noted for careful precision and finely-judged accuracy...
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2015-04-05. "Guido Dada". Motorsport Memorial. Retrieved 2015-04-30. "Mille Miglia 1954 – Race Results". Racing Sports Cars.com. Retrieved 2015-09-08. "Paul...
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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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Lancia D24 (category Mille Miglia)
1953 Carrera Panamericana, by Alberto Ascari in the 1954 Mille Miglia, and by Piero Taruffi in the 1954 Targa Florio and Giro di Sicilia. In 1955, the President...
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2014. 1953 A6GCS/53 spider-bodied by Fantuzzi 1954 Maserati A6GCS (Fantuzzi) at the 2011 Mille Miglia 1954 Maserati A6GCS Berlinetta at the Goodwood Festival...
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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (category Mille Miglia)
Uhlenhaut.[citation needed] Mercedes team driver Stirling Moss won the 1955 Mille Miglia in a 300 SLR, setting the event record at an average of 157.650 km/h...
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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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Giuseppe Farina (category Mille Miglia drivers)
Ferrari in 1936. He immediately impressed, finishing runner-up at the Mille Miglia driving an Alfa Romeo 8C. Farina took his maiden Grand Prix win at the...
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Fiat 1100 (1937) (section 508 C Mille Miglia)
C Mille Miglia was a 2-door, 2-seat berlinetta sports car based on the 508 C chassis and engine, produced in 1938 and 1939. At the 1938 Mille Miglia race...
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Gino Valenzano (category Mille Miglia drivers)
racing with that car and later the Lancia D20 and D24. He competed in Mille Miglia, Targa Florio and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Among his teammates were Luigi...
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Swiss Grand Prix with Ferrari. In endurance racing, Taruffi won the Mille Miglia in 1957, also with Ferrari. In Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Taruffi...
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Nash-Healey (category Cars discontinued in 1954)
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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Carrera Panamericana (section 1954)
roads in Mexico similar to the Mille Miglia and Targa Florio in Italy. Running for five consecutive years from 1950 to 1954, it was widely held by contemporaries...
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wheel, they won their category. This car also took part of the 1950 Mille Miglia, where it did not finish. Carrying starting number 533, it was fitted...
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Herrmann drove it under closed railroad crossing gates during the 1954 Mille Miglia. The first three hand-built prototypes came in a coupé with a removable...
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Grand tourer cars, and racing on road courses of the Targa Florio, the Mille Miglia, and the Carrera Panamericana. The team is also known for its passionate...
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the 1956 Mille Miglia one-thousand-mile road race in an MG Magnette. For 1957 he drove a factory-prepared Lotus Eleven. "One man's Mille Miglia" is an account...
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Jaguar XK120 (category Cars discontinued in 1954)
connecting rod broke, ending the Jaguar's run. Mille Miglia: Johnson took fifth place in the Mille Miglia, with John Lea as his riding mechanic, while Biondetti...
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1930 – 14 March 1957) was a racing driver from Italy. He won the 1956 Mille Miglia and 1956 12 Hours of Sebring, and took several Formula One World Championship...
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Ferrari 250 S (category Mille Miglia)
a ubiquitous 3.0-litre Colombo V12 engine. In 1952 the 250 S won the Mille Miglia and 12 Hours of Pescara. At the Le Mans, the same year, it clocked the...
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