It is over 30 years - at the date of publication of this book - since the Mille Miglia was last run in its original form and in the intervening years the race has grown into a heroic legend; it has come to symbolise a Golden Age of the sport.
For most of its history the Mille Miglia was paid little attention outside of Italy and foreign competitors were few. A number of British works cars which took part, for example, averaged no more than one or two per race and it was rare for any non-Italian team to mount a full-scale assault on the race. In retrospect, however, the Mille Miglia has acquired an aura internationally even greater than that it possessed in its day.
In this well illustrated and informative book Mike Lawrence has cast a critical eye over the event's history tracing it from a conversation between four friends in 1926 to the last, tragic race in 1957.
He has given an account of each race year by year, including the fantastic 1955 win by Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson, and put it in the context of both motor racing and European history. He has also attempted to answer the question, why has the memory and the idea of the Mille Miglia become so potent?
The Mille Miglia - The World's Greatest Motor Competitions, published in 1988, has 191 pages, illustrated with 80 b/w and 12 colour photographs.
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