Friday, April 29, 2011

Mille Miglia 2011 ... competition and media event

Another few days and the 2011 edition of the Mille Miglia magic will begin. Still equal to itself, yet unique and different from all other re-enactments of the great road races. No able to set up the record, the fact of historical memory, great cars and great drivers, very special places and roads, to media coverage of high society.

Mille Miglia can see movement in the most beautiful and exclusive motor sports car in history: they are from private collections, museums and historic car manufacturers are often unique specimens with values that are measured in millions of euro. Along with unique monsters, who also made popular cars of the Mille Miglia, once the most prestigious stage for a car company willing to show its novelty.

Thus, in addition to rare and valuable Bugatti, Alfa Romeo, BMW, Mercedes, Aston Martin, Porsche, Jaguar. Maserati, Lancia also the Fiat Topolino, 600 and 1100, the Lancia Aprilia, Appia, the Alfa Romeo Giulietta, the twin-cylinder Saab, DKW and even the Citroen 2CV. This is also the charm of the Mille Miglia, an extraordinary show of 375 cars that made motoring history And then, take care, the Mille Miglia is a very tough competition regularly, with 53 special stages concentrated in two and a half days in which you ride the fateful 1600 km between asphalt mountain roads, track, dirt road and the great historic squares of Italian cities.

I did it in 2006 with a small Mickey B, 13.5 horsepower and a maximum speed of 55 km per hour ... was exhausting, but it would also be a convenient and powerful Aurelia B20. The timed tests are technically difficult, specialists of regularity, fought to the last point. Among the candidates to win the favor of the obligation is supercampionissimo Giuliano Cane that last year had led to victory in the BMW 328 Mille Miglia Coupé of 1939 the German team (a single copy of the BMW museum).

Among other popular John Moceri, paired with Ross Labate, rider of Team Alpha, the 6C 1500 Super Sport 1928 and teammate Salvinelli the 6C 1750 Gran Sport, the two crews Ferrari-Ferrari, Bugatti 37 with two respectively in 1926 and 1927, Kirkpatrick still in a Bugatti 37 In 1928, He-Large with the slow and heavy Fiat 520 of 1928, Gnutti - Zobbio Balilla with Fiat 508S 1934, Sisti - Bernini (winner of one of the issues past) and Valseriati - Sabbadini with the Aston Martin Le Mans in 1933 and Gamberini - Noble, who despite a series of N Healey 1951, part of law among the candidates for final victory.

Fans of the Mille Miglia has many, especially in Emilia engines, and from the start until they return to Brescia, thousands of people follow the caravan along roadsides and streets that cross the Red Arrow. Emotions, motors, racing, high society ... a great show every year and involves surprises.

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