Motor Racing History – Early Racecourse Development Racing on public roads was illegal in England and British drivers had to...
Motor Racing History – Origins of the First Automobile Races and the First Grand Prix Dawn of Automobile Racing The...
Silver Arrows Grand Prix Drivers The Silver Arrows of Mercedes and Auto Union were formidable to say the least. The drivers were equally legendary. On this page we take you through all the drivers that made their mark driving for the Silver Arrows team. …Youthful impetuousness and courage are not...
The 1957 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1957 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: May 12-13, 1957 / Winner: Taruffi / Winning...
The 1956 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1956 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 29-30 1956 / Winner: Castellotti / Winning...
The 1955 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1955 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: May 1-2, 1955 / Winner: Moss – Jenkinson / Winning Speed: 98.53 mph / Starters: 521 / Finishers: 281 The race would not start for another two months but already Daimler-Benz was hard at work earmarking 20,000 pounds...
The 1954 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1954 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: May 1-2, 1954 / Winner: Ascari / Winning...
The 1953 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1953 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 25-26, 1953 / Winner: Marzotto G. –...
In honor of its 75th anniversary this year, we’ve partnered with Jaguar to bring you this special issue commemorating the famed British marque’s long and illustrious racing history. Within these pages you’ll read of Jaguar’s virtual dominance of Le Mans in the ’50s, its triumphant return to La Sarthe in...
The 1952 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1952 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: May 4-5, 1952 / Winner: Bracco – Rolfo...
The 1951 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1951 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 28-29, 1951 / Winner: Villoresi – Cassani...
The 1950 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1950 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 23-24, 1950 / Winner: Marzotto G. – Crosara / Winning Speed: 77.00 mph / Starters: 375 / Finishers: 213 For Italians, number 17 has the same bad connotations as number 13 is to the English speaking world....
The 1949 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1949 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 24-25, 1949 / Winner: Biondetti – Salani...
The 1948 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1948 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: May 1-2, 1948 / Winner: Biondetti – Navoni...
The 1947 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1947 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: June 21-22, 1947 / Winner: Biondetti – Romano / Winning Speed: 70.14 mph / Starters: 155 / Finishers: 54 The war had been over two years before another Mille Miglia would be held. The pre-war ban on racing...
The 1940 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1940 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 28, 1940 / Winner: von Hanstein –...
The 1938 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1938 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 3-4, 1938 / Winner: Biondetti – Stefani...
The 1937 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1937 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 4-5, 1937 / Winner: Pintacuda – Mambelli / Winning Speed: 71.71 mph / Starters: 124 / Finishers: 65 After the austerity of 1936, Italy was in a state of Fascist induced euphoria with it’s victory in Ethiopia....
The 1936 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1936 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 5-6, 1936 / Winner: Brivio – Ongaro...
The 1935 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1935 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 14-15, 1935 / Winner: Pintacuda – Della...
The 1934 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1934 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 8-9, 1934 / Winner: Varzi – Bignami / Winning Speed: 71.44 mph / Starters: 57 / Finishers: 29 1934 saw the return of Italy’s prodigal son, Achille Varzi. Resulting from their on again off again relationship between...
The 1933 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1933 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 8-9, 1933 / Winner: Nuvolari – Compagnoni...
The 1932 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1932 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 9-10, 1932 / Winner: Borzacchini – Bignami...
The 1931 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1931 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 11-12, 1931 / Winner: Caracciola – Sebastian / Winning Speed: 63.21 mph / Starters: 99 / Finishers: 59 The effects of the Wall Street crash and subsequent depression worked its way across the ocean and on November...
The 1930 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1930 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 16-17, 1929 / Winner: Nuvolari – Guidotti...
The 1929 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1929 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 13-14, 1929 / Winner: Campari – Ramponi...
The 1928 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1928 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: March 31-April 1, 1928 / Winner: Campari – Ramponi / Winning Speed: 52.58 mph / Starters: 83 / Finishers: 40 It is doubtful whether the “four musketeers” originally intended the race to be an annual event. However, rumour...
The 1927 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1927 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: March 26-27, 1927 / Winner: Minoia – Morandi / Winning...
The basic site here is very broad-based, but in its “Racing” section is this subsection devoted to Dan Gurney’s career...
History has a habit of repeating itself, and it did so at the 2010 Mille Miglia this May, when BMW duplicated its success of 70 years ago. That 1940 event was a little different from its predecessors, however, as the rest of the world was at war when it took...
