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Motorsport: Books - Circuits and Races - Mille Miglia

A book on motor racing? Here are books on the famous Italian "Mille Miglia", the race from Brescia to Rome and back (1927-1957).

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After exhaustive research of the Mille Miglia Archives, previously unpublished yet invaluable documentation came to light with the historic information they provide.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.

Author:Carlo Dolcini
Specs:160 pages, 29.5 x 26.5 x 1.7 cm / 11.6 x 10.4 x 0.67 in, hardback
Illustrations:300 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:Giorgio Nada Editore (IT, 2017)
ISBN:9788879116886
The First Mille 26-27 March 1927

The First Mille 26-27 March 1927

Language: English

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Mille Miglia - The Alfa & Ferrari Years 1927-1951 - Brooklands Portfolio

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.

Author:R.M. Clarke, Mike Lawrence
Specs:176 pages, 27 x 20 x 1.1 cm / 10.6 x 7.9 x 0.43 in, paperback
Illustrations:300 b&w photos
Publisher:Brooklands Books (GB, 1996)
Series:Portfolio
ISBN:9781855204676

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Mille Miglia - The Alfa & Ferrari Years 1927-1951 - Brooklands Portfolio

Mille Miglia - The Alfa & Ferrari Years 1927-1951

Language: English

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Mille Miglia - The Ferrari & Mercedes Years 1952-1957 - Brooklands Portfolio

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.

Author:R.M. Clarke, Mike Lawrence
Specs:176 pages, 27 x 20 x 1.1 cm / 10.6 x 7.9 x 0.43 in, paperback
Illustrations:300 b&w photos
Publisher:Brooklands Books (GB, 1996)
Series:Portfolio
ISBN:9781855204683

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Mille Miglia - The Ferrari & Mercedes Years 1952-1957 - Brooklands Portfolio

Mille Miglia - The Ferrari & Mercedes Years 1952-1957

Language: English

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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."

Author:Leonardo Acerbi
Specs:312 pages, 31.5 x 29.5 x 3.6 cm / 12.4 x 11.6 x 1.42 in, hardback
Illustrations:250 b&w photos
Publisher:Giorgio Nada Editore (IT, 2015)
ISBN:9788879116183
Mille Miglia 1927-1957 : Immagini di una Vita / A Race in Pictures

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

Language: English + Italian

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