«Mille Miglia» - a thousand miles through Italy

For thirty years in the last century on the roads of Italy took endurance race «Mille Miglia». Through this race was once popular luxury cars Gran Turismo. Yes, with these races, the era of Porsche, Maserati, Ferrari, Alfa Romeo.





The race was founded in 1927 by two enthusiasts who could not calm down after their native Brescia was deprived of earlier is the Italian Grand Prix. Step moved to Monza. Aimo Maggi (Aymo Maggi) and Franco Mazzotti (Franco Mazzotti) decided to create an alternative and with the sponsors have chosen the path from Brescia to Rome and back. The distance was found to be 1000 miles. «Mille Miglia» was renewed in such a way as it is now for the first time in 1982. Are allowed to participate only cars manufactured in the interval from 1927 to 1957. Therefore, the issue has become a top speed is not important. The organizers decided to consider the key to compliance with speed limits.