33rd edition of the Mille Miglia revival race

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The 2015 Mille Miglia race is currently being raced in Italy

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This year guest star is Mercedes benz with the commemoration of the 1955 Victory of Stirling Moss/Jenkinson

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Some astonishing numbers

2015 Mille Miglia revival it is

Over 3000 candidates of which 430 have been retained
61 different car constructors
131 Italian teams
85 German teams
54 GB
42 Nederlands
40 Belgium
38 Swiss
36 US
+ a few from Austria, France, Canada NZ etc

3000 people most of them being volonteers are monopolised to take care of the competitors
227 cities welcome the rallye during these 4 days race
Over 4 millions of spectators all along the circuit

Olivier Gendebien the famous Belgian driver who took part several time to the official Mille Miglia, tell the following story :
When you reach a curve if there is only a few spectators you may pass full speed
On the contrary if you see a huge crowd brake hard as the curve is dangerous

2000 journalists have asked for an accreditation

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Some more numbers

Are only accepted to enter :
cars built up to 1957 (last year of the original Mille Miglia)
cars similar to a car who did effectively race
Each year up to 60 cars who did effectively raced an original Mille Miglia edition race again
Evidently such cars give you a strong push to be accepted
It is in 1949 that for the first time, the race number indicated the starting time
ie 348 departure at 3 48 AM

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In 1927 an OM (Italian make no longer in existence) achieved an average Speed of 77.238 Km/h to win the race
In 1930 an Alfa Romeo won at an average speed of over 100 Km/h
In 1952 Pierro Taruffi won with a

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Sorry wrong post I conclude
In 1952 Pierro Taruffi won with a Ferrari at 152 km/h average speed for 1600 km non stop on open roads with millions of spectators everywhere

Pictures to follow when available

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After the technical verifications at Brescia 464 cars have effectively started yesterday Thursday May 14th amongst them 67 have al least run in one of the original races from 1927 to 1957

This year the official sponsor is the Swiss watch manufacturer Chopard

who have taken pretext of this year race to present a new range of sport watches

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The 2015 edition of the Mille Miglia is now over since several days but I have had problems finding pictures of the many Porsches who compete this year
Indeed very few French competitors did participate this year and the only available pics are dedicated to the 2015 Champion Mercedes Benz
Anyway what I found





This year stars

An idea of the Italian spectators enthousiasm

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A Mercedes 300 SL passing in front of the Pisa tower

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Some more 356 at the 2015 Mille Miglia

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That new watch is sweet!

There were 3 x 550RS and 1 x 550A spyder
550-04 - piloted by Porsche CEO Matthias Mueller along with Ulf Porscardt




550-15 - piloted by Andreas and Nathalie Pohl



550-0016 - piloted by Wim and Achile Van Giederdegom



550A-0113 - piloted by Karl-Fiederich and Christine Scheufele