Motorsport: Books - Circuits and Races - Mille Miglia

The First Mille 26-27 March 1927

Ninety years ago the first Mille Miglia was held on 26-27 March 1927, so here is a new book that enables the reader to pin down a story which is not exactly secret, but has remained unknown until now.
After exhaustive research of the Mille Miglia Archives, previously unpublished yet invaluable documentation came to light with the historic information they provide.

This book tells of the first Mille Miglia's regulations, the analytical description of 1,618 kilometres of the route - a rare description of the Italian roads in 1927 - specifications of the 101 cars entered for the event with photographs of the drivers, the results list and times at which each entrant reached the various controls at Parma, Bologna, Florence, Poggibonsi, San Quirico d'Orcia, Viterbo, Rome, Terni, Spoleto, Ancona, Rimini, Bologna and Treviso.

Mille Miglia - The Alfa & Ferrari Years 1927-1951

Brooklands Portfolio book about the Italian Mille Miglia race during the period 1927-1951.

The articles, taken from contemporary British and American car magazines, provide much information about cars, drivers and technology. Also tables with the results on a year-by-year basis.

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Mille Miglia - The Ferrari & Mercedes Years 1952-1957

Brooklands Portfolio book about the Italian Mille Miglia race during the period 1952-1957, with as winners Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Lancia.

The 51 articles, taken from contemporary British and American car magazines, provide a lot of information about cars, drivers and technology. Also tables with the results on a year-by-year basis.

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Mille Miglia 1927-1957 : Immagini di una Vita / A Race in Pictures

For 30 years from 1927 until 1957 the real Mille Miglia was the "race of excellence." A unique event of over 1,600 kilometres across Italy, the stars of which were some of the world's greatest car manufacturers, among them Alfa Romeo, Mercedes-Benz, Maserati, Ferrari, Jaguar and Aston Martin.

And their cars were driven, naturally, by some of the equally great champions of the time, like Tazio Nuvolari, Achille Varzi, through to Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss as well as Alberto Ascari, Clemente Biondetti, Piero Taruffi and many others.
Count Giannino Marzotto won the race twice in Ferraris in 1950 and 1953 and said the Mille Miglia was "a synthesis of dynamism, freedom, challenge, courage and calculation."

The story, or better the stories, of that legendary race live again in this book, which tells the tales of the classic "Bresciana," first of all through hundreds of pictures, most of them never previously published.
The text has been written by Leonardo Acerbi, who also wrote "Mille Miglia Story 1927-1957."