Mille Miglia

1/13/2025

The crowds are gathered in Brescia in their thousands as the legendary 1,000 mile race from their town continues down the coast of Italy via Ravenna and Pescara before it crosses the mountainous spine of country heading to Rome via L'Aquila then back up to Siena, Florence before Bologna and home. There's archive a-plenty as we visit the Maserati and Ferrari factories where the finishing touches are being put to their powerful engines - Enzo Ferrari is there to personally keep an eye on things. Alfa Romeo feature too with some secret testing to keep their new smaller, closed, car away from the prying eyes of their competitors. There are a few open cars too, with Reg Parnell trying out his new Aston Martin before the five hundred cars that have registered get ready for the off. What follows