{"id":5857,"date":"2009-09-14T17:17:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5857"},"modified":"2024-01-12T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T15:56:06","slug":"mille-miglia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/mille-miglia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mille Miglia: A Fatal Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5855\" title=\"Miglia_type-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Miglia_type-1.jpg\" alt=\"Miglia_type-1\" width=\"575\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Miglia_type-1.jpg 575w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Miglia_type-1-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Miglia_type-1-278x176.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Miglia_type-1-526x333.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Miglia_type-1-572x363.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ben Oliver on the road race that created Italian automotive passion in its own image<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You are a driver in the Mille Miglia in the 1950s. You have been racing for fourteen hours now, stopping only to take on fuel and swallow another couple of pills.<\/p>\n<p>It is dark, and you\u2019re climbing through the Apennine mountains towards the Futa and Raticosa passes with over a hundred miles left to the finish line. The road is supposed to be closed, but this is fifties Italy so every hairpin corner brings a bicycle, donkey or badly parked car to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>The tarmac is broken. Your car has three or four hundred horsepower but drum brakes and weak headlights and tyres that squeal but don\u2019t grip. You\u2019re so tired your amphetamine-addled mind is seeing things that aren\u2019t there and missing those that are. And in this state you constantly have to make the finest of judgements; how hard to push. Back off, and you lose the race. Push too hard and you and your co-driver will die. There\u2019s no Armco up here yet; no impregnable carbon-fibre safety cell in your car or teams of paramedics on every corner. These cars barely have seat belts. Get it wrong and your best hope is a quick death.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5857 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-post-gallery-thumb'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Miglia_type-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Miglia_type-1-251x167.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-gallery-thumb size-post-gallery-thumb\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Miglia_type-1-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Miglia_type-1-278x185.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/mm4-poster1957.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/mm4-poster1957-251x167.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-gallery-thumb size-post-gallery-thumb\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/mm4-poster1957-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/mm4-poster1957-278x185.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mille_Miglia_1955_Stirling_Moss.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mille_Miglia_1955_Stirling_Moss-251x167.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-gallery-thumb size-post-gallery-thumb\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mille_Miglia_1955_Stirling_Moss-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mille_Miglia_1955_Stirling_Moss-278x185.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/m.i.stirling.moss.victory.1955.mille.miglia.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/m.i.stirling.moss.victory.1955.mille.miglia-251x167.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-gallery-thumb size-post-gallery-thumb\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/m.i.stirling.moss.victory.1955.mille.miglia-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/m.i.stirling.moss.victory.1955.mille.miglia-278x185.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1.jpg149..jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1.jpg149.-251x167.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-gallery-thumb size-post-gallery-thumb\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1.jpg149.-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1.jpg149.-278x185.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fon-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fon-1-210x167.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-gallery-thumb size-post-gallery-thumb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Mille Miglia ran \u2013 on and off \u2013 for thirty years between 1927 and 1957; a race over a thousand miles on public roads, starting and finishing in Brescia and looping through Rome and Florence. It broke cars and drivers; fewer than half of the hundreds who started each year would finish. It was staggeringly dangerous, dangerous enough to be temporarily banned in 1939, back when we thought smoking was healthy and were about to enter a world war. But its influence was immense. \u201cIn my opinion, the Mille Miglia was an epoch-making event,\u201d said Enzo Ferrari. \u201cThe Miglia created our cars and the Italian automobile industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Italians could read in their newspapers about the victories of their home-grown cars in Grands Prix around the world. But before television, they couldn\u2019t see them. So imagine being an Italian peasant farmer who has experienced nothing faster than a mule, and sitting on that mule in your field and watching an Italian hero like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conceptcarz.com\/articles\/article.aspx?articleID=70\">Varzi<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bukisa.com\/articles\/125714_tazio-nuvolari-thegreat-italian-racing-driver\">Nuvolari<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bentleypublishers.com\/author.htm?id=33\">Taruffi<\/a> drive an Italian car past you in a furious, deafening red streak, and reading in your newspaper the next day that he had beaten the Germans.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari is Italy, Italy is Ferrari. And this is where it all began.<\/p>\n<p>When the race restarted after the war Ferraris won eight of the eleven races, before a Ferrari caused the carnage that finally killed it in 1957. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8qKx6u7eje4&amp;feature=player_embedded\">Alfonso de Portago<\/a> was the 28 year-old nephew of the King of Spain. His Ferrari suffered a puncture and flipped into the crowd who had gathered to see the cars at their fastest. De Portago, his co-driver and ten spectators, many of them children, died. The Mille Miglia was banned for good three days later and the crash grew to assume a morbidly iconic place in Italian culture.<\/p>\n<p>In 1977 the road race was resurrected as a \u2018historic rally\u2019, open to cars that could have competed in the original event. The organizers stress that it isn\u2019t a race. Do not believe them. It is insane. It is a convoy of the world\u2019s most valuable, least-replaceable classic cars being driven with zero regard to their safety or their occupants\u2019, on open public roads, chased and cut up by modern supercars, and all actively encouraged by the local police \u2013 who even compete themselves. It is no less dangerous than the original race, and it is impossible to imagine this happening anywhere other than Italy.<\/p>\n<p>I competed in it in 2008, in a priceless, utterly original Jaguar XK120 known as the \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaguarautomobilia.com\/ex_auction\/k1.jpg\">Montlhery record car<\/a>\u2019, in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2vDg-3MrnwA\">Sir Stirling Moss<\/a> set a series of world speed and endurance records in 1951. It\u2019s a privilege to take part in the Mille Miglia, but not actually much fun. You get a couple of hours\u2019 sleep each night and spend all three days in constant fear of wiping out a piece of automotive history and trying to figure out the rules, which the Italians make utterly incomprehensible. Yet every year nearly 2000 of the world\u2019s wealthiest car collectors apply for just 375 places. They\u2019ll all have to stump up a \u00a310,000 entry fee, but that\u2019s just the start. Most pay for support vehicles and mechanics and fly their cars in from around the globe. And they have to buy them in first place. The popularity of the event drives the value of eligible cars through the roof, and many here have paid millions just to be able to drive up the starting ramp.<\/p>\n<p>But as mad as the modern event might be, we\u2019ll never understand how it must have been for those who drove in the real thing. Stirling Moss averaged almost 100mph over the entire course in 1955; to do that he had to travel at 170mph at times down unlit, cratered back roads, an almost unthinkable speed even in a modern supercar with half a century\u2019s technical advantage. The old Mille Miglia can\u2019t be replicated. Nothing in modern motorsport compares to it, and nobody will ever feel the same way at the wheel of a car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look back at the toughest road race of them all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,6],"tags":[1186,183],"class_list":["post-5857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-features","tag-endurance-racing","tag-motorsport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mille Miglia: A Fatal Attraction - Influx<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A look back at the toughest road race of them all\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/mille-miglia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mille Miglia: A Fatal Attraction - 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