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It all started with a spite. After the first edition held in Montichiari, in the Brescia area, the Italian Grand Prix moved to Monza, where a brand new automotive plant was born, destined to become the temple of speed. Four friends didn’t take it well, and invented a competition that history would later qualify as “the race of races”: the Mille Miglia, a name suggested by Franco Mazzotti from Brescia after his trip to America.
In fact, the route included 1600 kilometers starting from Brescia, arriving in Rome and returning. The first edition started on March 26, 1927, the last ended on May 12, 1957: a destiny decreed by the tragedy of Guidizzolo, where the Ferrari of the Spanish marquis Alfonso De Portago and his co-driver Edmund Gurner went off the road mowed down nine spectators among including five children, as well as causing the deaths of the pilots themselves.
The Mille Miglia finished there. The name will live on, but it will be a whole other thing, another race. His story is the one that spans these three decades, with the interruption of the war. Races with many epic episodes, which the author retraces all with his unmistakable style of narrator.
