“Who do you think you are? Stirling Moss?” This, so the story goes, is what a policeman asked the legendary...
1000 Miglia opened registrations for the 2019 Warm Up USA training and USA championship race that will take place in...
The 1000 Miglia, that traverses Italy each year, has been hailed as “the most beautiful auto race in the world.” The event now holds a United States edition, the 1000 Miglia Warm Up USA, which will return this October 19-22, in and around Middleburg, Virginia, after its COVID absence. The...
At the end of May, I was in Italy following the Mille Miglia Retrospective. There was a time when I...
The Maserati A6GCS driven by Emilio Giletti and navigator Guerino Bertocchi at the 1953 Mille Miglia. They finished in 6th...
“Wow, I could have had an 8V!” Can you imagine if Fiat had hired actor Ronald Reagan in 1952 to promote its brand-new sports car with that mostly familiar slogan? Had Fiat done that, is there any doubt that thousands of units would have been sold? Instead, in 1975 Campbell’s...
This exquisitely done painting depicts Juan Manuel Fangio, the five-time Formula One World Champion, finishing 5th in the 1956 Mille...
Few early American racers did more than Ak Miller. He was a well-known hot rodder, successful long-distance racer, had more...
The 1987 season was my first year in Formula One. I had sponsorship from Lois jeans and Mr. Minardi offered me a drive in his team alongside Alessandro Nannini in the new Minardi M187. I appreciated that the Minardi wasn’t too competitive, but it was a start. The car was...
The California Mille will once again take participants on a tour of Northern California this April 24-27, all in celebration...
With 400 vintage cars, thirty less than last year, in order to ensure greater safety and quality of service to...
The Board of Directors of 1000 Miglia srl, in agreement with the Automobile Club of Brescia, has approved a five-week postponement of 1000 Miglia 2021, which was initially scheduled from 12th to 15th of May, and will now start from Brescia on Wednesday June 16, returning in the afternoon of Saturday...
Entries for the 1000 Miglia 2021 are now being accepted through January 18th. Only seven months after last October’s autumn...
Details have been released for the 40th running of the 1000 Miglia, June 15–18, 2022, with entry applications now being...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a...
Alfa Romeo had gone from zero to hero and beyond from the 1911 Targa Florio to the 1936 Mille Miglia. Its motor racing exploits were followed by the entire Italian nation as cars like the 1750 Super Sport, 8C 2300 Monza, P2 and then the P3 drove it to the...
Spring is in the air and historic sports cars are being fettled for the Mille Miglia, except they’re not. They...
Sometimes, knowing someone results is a surprise. I’ve known Mike Marsh for a number of years. He created the EuroFest...
The 2007 Mille Miglia, which starts from Brescia on May 17 and concludes in the Italian financial and industrial center on the 19th, will be packed with historic milestones. The first event was run 80 years ago this year; the last came to grief with the De Portago accident 50...
Robert Newman examines the men and machines that made the Mille Miglia one of the world’s greatest races. The Mille...
The 2009 edition of Italy’s Mille Miglia Storica attracted its usual mixed bag of royalty, politicians, motor racing icons, and...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical illusions can be. Only three Mirage M2s were ever built. They showed potential in the World Sports Car series, but their development was cut short when Porsche came knocking at...
Achille Varzi was the opposite of his capricious nemesis Tazio Nuvolari, who was steeped in instinctive talent. Varzi was a...
The Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Alfa Romeo with a broad array...
The father and son team of Andrea and Roberto Vesco (number 46), are the winners of the 1000 Miglia 2020: after more than 1700 km through half of Italy. The duo beat an impressive field and won the competition at the wheel of a 1929 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Zagato...
Andrea Vesco and Fabio Salvinelli, driving a 1929 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Super Sport, won the 1000 Miglia 2021, after...
Andrea Vesco and Fabio Salvinelli have won the 2022 Miglia Miglia. Crew number 46, aboard a 1929 Alfa Romeo 6C...
Argentinean husband and wife team Juan Tonconogy and Barbara Ruffini doused each other with champagne on the traditional winners’ ramp in Viale Venezia, Brescia, Italy, on May 19 after winning the 36th Mille Miglia Storica in their 1933 Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 GS (number 85). For Tonconogy, the 2018 victory...
