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    The Mille Miglia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmille ˈmiʎʎa], Thousand Miles) was an open-road, motorsport endurance race established in 1927 by the young...
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    The 1953 Mille Miglia, was the second round of the 1953 F.I.A. World Sportscar Championship and was held on the open-road of Italy, on 26 April 1953. The...
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    The 1955 Mille Miglia was a 1,000 mile motor race held on a course made up entirely of public roads around Italy, mostly on the outer parts of the country...
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    The 23. edizione Mille Miglia was an auto race held on a 992.332 mile (1597 km) course made up entirely of public roads around Italy, mostly on the outer...
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    1954 Mille Miglia (officially XXI Mille Miglia ), was a motor race open to Sports Cars, GT cars and Touring Cars. It was the 21st Mille Miglia and the...
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    Gianni Marzotto (category Mille Miglia drivers)
    entrepreneur. Marzotto served as President of the Mille Miglia Club and won the Mille Miglia race in 1950 and 1953. He was one of four sons of Count Gaetano Marzotto...
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    Ferrari 340 (category Mille Miglia)
    total of four were converted to 375 MM spec. Giannino Marzotto won Mille Miglia 1953 edition in Vignale spider, setting a new average speed record for...
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    Ferrari 250 MM (category Mille Miglia)
    berlinetta bodywork by Pinin Farina. The "MM" in its name stood for the Mille Miglia race. The 250 MM was the second of the ubiquitous 3.0-litre Colombo-engined...
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    2016. "1951 ex-Mille Miglia, ex-Le Mans, Lancia Aurelia B20GT » Thornley Kelham". thornleykelham.com. Retrieved 2 September 2016. "1953 Fiat 8V Coupé by...
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    Ferrari 166 S (category Mille Miglia)
    successful Ferrari 166 MM (Mille Miglia), of which 47 were made from 1948 to 1953. Its early victories in the Targa Florio and Mille Miglia and others in international...
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    events. Driving an Alfa Romeo 8C 2900b, Clemente Biondetti won the 1938 Mille Miglia for sports cars and at the Coppa Ciano finished second in the voiturette...
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  • Emilio Giletti (category Mille Miglia drivers)
    when he scored his biggest win, when he took a class victory on the 1953 Mille Miglia. During this period, he enjoyed some success, scoring his only race...
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    dead straight road at 150 mph (240 km/h) in the 1957 running of the Mille Miglia, killing Portago, his navigator, and nine spectators. The young age of...
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    World Sportscar Championship (category Recurring sporting events established in 1953)
    certain years: Mille Miglia 1953–57 1000 km Nürburgring 1953– RAC Tourist Trophy 1953–64 12 Hours of Sebring 1953– Carrera Panamericana 1953–54 Targa Florio...
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    Drivers' Championship. His most notable motorsports victory was the 1957 Mille Miglia, the final running of the cross-country sports car race. Taruffi began...
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    coupe. These cars competed in four consecutive Le Mans races and one Mille Miglia. Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton debuted the prototype at Le Mans in 1950...
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    Ferrari 250 S (category Mille Miglia)
    a ubiquitous 3.0-litre Colombo V12 engine. In 1952 the 250 S won the Mille Miglia and 12 Hours of Pescara. At the Le Mans, the same year, it clocked the...
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  • Enrico Adanti (category Mille Miglia drivers)
    between 1938 and 1940, and between 1946 and 1953, mainly driving a Fiat or Lancia. He started the Mille Miglia 9 times. Racing Sports Cars Ultimate Racing...
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    Ferrari Monza (section 1953)
    Retrieved 2015-12-16. "Ferrari 500 Mondial (1953)". ferrari.com. Retrieved 20 October 2021. "Mille Miglia 1954 Race Results". Retrieved 22 May 2019. Aucock...
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    making films, Mason was also a scriptwriter. Le Mans 1952 (1952) Mille miglia (1953) History of the Motor Car (1972) Racing Mercedes - Part One (2001)...
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  • Grand tourer cars, and racing on road courses of the Targa Florio, the Mille Miglia, and the Carrera Panamericana. The team is also known for its passionate...
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    third round in the championship after the 12 Hours of Sebring and the Mille Miglia. After the efforts by drivers in the recent races to drive almost single-handedly...
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    Lancia D24 (category Mille Miglia)
    are those by Juan Manuel Fangio in the 1953 Carrera Panamericana, by Alberto Ascari in the 1954 Mille Miglia, and by Piero Taruffi in the 1954 Targa...
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    Targa Florio (with Peter Collins), and the Mille Miglia. In 1955 Moss won Italy's one-thousand-mile Mille Miglia road race, an achievement that Doug Nye...
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    for four years, Ferrari managed to manufacture two cars for the 1940 Mille Miglia, which were driven by Alberto Ascari and Lotario Rangoni. With the outbreak...
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    Enrico Anselmi (category Mille Miglia drivers)
    second in the 6 Ore di Pescara. In addition, he also won his class on the Mille Miglia that season. He repeated this feat the following season and claimed another...
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    1930 – 14 March 1957) was a racing driver from Italy. He won the 1956 Mille Miglia and 1956 12 Hours of Sebring, and took several Formula One World Championship...
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    Gino Valenzano (category Mille Miglia drivers)
    racing with that car and later the Lancia D20 and D24. He competed in Mille Miglia, Targa Florio and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Among his teammates were Luigi...
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  • Pat Griffith (category Mille Miglia drivers)
    start at Le Mans, but fail to finish the race, likewise in the 1952 Mille Miglia. After those races in Europe, Griffith score two victories for the team...
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    Adolf Brudes (category Mille Miglia drivers)
    podium finish in the 1940 Mille Miglia. The race ran over a shortened course, under the title of Gran Premio Bescia delle Mille Miglia. Brudes was paired with...
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