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Forty-eight hours after we had started, the D-type rolled across the finish line on Brescia's Viale Venezia, for 70 years the start and finish point of the Mille Miglia. Of the 375 cars that started the race we were now 115th, many thousands of points behind the professional teams that complete the regularity trials to within a thousandth of a second, but still proud to call ourselves the highest-placed British runners.
The Mille Miglia is a delightful anachronism. Nowhere else in the world can you see (and even chase) the world's most valuable vintage racing cars being driven flat-out in the surroundings in which they were intended. For 362 days of the year most of these cars are museum pieces, wrapped in cotton wool and given a regular waxing. But for the remaining three days the wraps come off, their engines burst into life and hundreds of millions of pounds worth of machinery pours onto the roads of Italy. Long may it continue.
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| A trophy for 4Car's man – Best placed Brits |
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GALLERY LINKS
Mille Miglia, Part 1
Mille Miglia, Part 2
Mille Miglia, Part 3
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