Mille Miglia
Storica 1998
Start-up
The Time
Schedule
The Route
List of eligible cars
Sport
driver license and more hints
Check in
and technical inspections
Start/Finish
The Cars
The VIPs at
the wheel
Hotels
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- will grow during the next week
How to
contact the Organizer
 
Italy's most important and highly
traditional event for historic cars, the Mille
Miglia Storica, will again take place in mid-May;
to be more exact: between May 14 and 17, 1998.
Since 1977, this road-race for classic
automobiles from Brescia in northern Italy to
Rome and back to Brescia (via Siena and Florence)
has become a "must" for simply
everybody interested in old cars.
 
All the lucky enthusiasts who own
cars eligible for the "Mille" and who
wish to become one the about 350 entrants had to
send their applications for the participation to
the organizers until December 31, 1997. To be
eligible for the probably most famous, most
stylish and most hip European event for historic
cars, the cars have to have been built between
1927 and 1957; furthermore, the very vehicle or
at least an identical example should once have
participated in the original Mille Miglia in
these years.
Despite of these relatively strict
requirements, there are usually more than 900
applications and many enthusiasts receive
refusals because of the Mille's limitation to
about 350 entries. The definitive list of the
accepted participants will be published in early
March during the Geneva Motor Show. Ferraris are
always an important contingent in the field of
the participants - we will keep you informed...
 
Like in the previous years
a "sport driver license - minimum for
historic racing" is required for the pilot
and co-pilot. A temporary license an be acquired
for approx. $50+. - near to the check-in desk. To
ease the entire procedure passport pictures are
not required any longer.
The check in is in the same
place as technical inspection in the Piazza
Vittoria in the very center of the city
The start and finish will
be in the Viale Venezia in which all cars will
line up for the start. The start of the first car
is at 20.15. This year 370 cars will take part.
Alfa Romeo
is the most represented make, with 92 entries,
followed by Mercedes-Benz (69), Ferrari (49),
Lancia (46), Fiat (45), Jaguar/SS (42), Aston
Martin and Porsche (33), Bentley (29), BMW (28),
Maserati (24) and Bugatti (21). Another 88
automobile Houses complete the list.
Up to now, a
lot of popular drivers have taken the lion’s
share, such as Prince Bosco von
Metternich with an Alvis 4.3 Litre
Special. Nanni Galli will run
the race at the wheel of a 1900 Alfa Romeo, of
course. He was the official driver of this House
from 1967 to 1972, when he won so many prizes
with the GTAs and the "33"s. He ran in
Formula One with March as well, and took once the
place of Clay Regazzoni in a Ferrari.
Paul
Rosche, the motor engineer of the world
champions McLaren/BMW, together with Prince
Leopold von Bayern, will drive a
stream-lined Touring styled 328 MM, belonging to
the BMW Museum.
Earl of
March and Roberto Ravaglia
will be at the wheel of another stream-lined 328.
After a recent and existing victories in Daytona
and Sebring, Mauro Baldi, the
winner of an edition of the "24h Hours Le
Mans" too, will be at the start in a Ferrari
250 GT. Also another champion of our time, Emanuele
Pirro, will drive a Ferrari, a 375 MM.
We cannot possibly
forget to mention one of the greatest drivers of
all times, Oliver Gendebien, who
will be at the wheel of a Mercedes 300 SL. He won
four times the "24 Hours Le Mans",
three times the "12 Hours Sebring",
three times the "Targa Florio" and the
"Tour de France".
On the Mille
Miglia roads will happen again the duels typical
of the 70’s Formula 1, due to the presence
of some of the most extraordinary pilots of that
period. First the Brazilian Emerson
Fittipaldi who won two Formula 1 World
Championships with the Lotus in 1972 (5
victories) and 1974 (3 victories).
Senator Carlos
Reutemann, Governor of Santa Fe from
1991 to 1995, is going to run for President of
the Republic of Argentina. Before devoting
himself to politics, great Carlos had been taking
part in Formula 1 since 1972, when he was at the
wheel of a Brabham for the first time.
Afterwards, he became the number 1 driver at
Ferrari and Williams. He has achieved ten
victories and three third placements in the World
Championship. With a Porsche 550 he is going to
be one of the two standard-bearers of the solid
and well-versed official team of the House of
Stuttgart.
The other one is Jackie
Ickx, the "King of the rain".
In 1969, with a Brabham, ha came in second in the
Formula One World Championship. In 1970, with a
Ferrari, he got the same result, helping the team
to win the Championship of Makes. The prizes he
won are so many, that it’s impossible to
mention all of them. He obtained the most
significant ones in endurance races, such as the
"24 Hours Le Mans", the "1000
Kilometers" Nuerburgring and then Monza,
Dijon and Spa.
Also Jochen
Mass, who is today the standard-bearer
of Mercedes-Benz, used to run in Formula 1. Among
his greatest victories, we can mention the
"24 Hours Le Mans" in 1989 and the
Grand Prix of Spain in 1975 with a M. In this
edition of the Mille Miglia, he will be at the
steering-wheel of the "Silver Arrow",
the legendary 300SLR.
The participation
of the famous actor Fabio Testi,
a true lover of this race, has been a pleasant
custom for years. His car a beautiful Biondetti
Special.
Another VIP of the
Mille Miglia will be the shipowner Peter
Livanos, with an Aston Martin DB 3S;
this automobile House once belonged to him.
There are many Hotels in
the area large and small once, in Bresica or at
Lago di Garda or Lago d'Iseo some of them are not
opened because it is off season, some are already
booked out for the week of the mille miglia since
the last one has ended.
Brescia
Hotel Vittoria, via delle
10 Giornate 20, 65 Rooms 300.000-400.000 lire,
Phone +39-30-28.00.61 Fax +39-30-28.00.65 next to the
Piazza Vittoria
Park Hotel Ca'Nöa,
via Triumplina 66, 79 Rooms 140.000-200.000 lire,
Phone +39-30-39.87.62 Fax +39-30-39.87.64
not in walking distance to the center
Novotel Brescia,
via Pietro Nenni, 120 rooms 170.000-220.000 lire,
Phone +39-30-24.25.858 Fax +39-30-24.25.959
close
enough to walk
Radisson SAS Hotel,
via Europa 45, 107 Rooms 135.000-185.000
lire, Phone +39-30-20.91.824 Fax
+39-30-20.09.741 3,5km from Piazza Vittoria
Hotel Ambasciatori, via Crocifissa
di Rosa 92, 64 rooms 110.000-160.000 lire, Phone
+39-30-39.91.114 Fax +39-30-38.18.83 close
enough to walk
Hotel Igea, viale Stazione 15, 85
Rooms 100.000-160.000 lire, Phone +39-30-44.221
Fax +39-30-44.224 close enough to walkVilla
Sirmione
Villa Cortine, via
Grotte 12, 47 Rooms 520.000-730.000 lire, Phone
+39-30-99.05.890 Fax +39-30-91.63.90 is loacted
in Sirmione on a Peninsula in the Lago di Garda
has, 39km to Brescia
Paratico
Franciacorte Golf Hotel,
via XXIV Maggio 48, 43 Rooms 150.000-200.000
lire, Phone +39-35-91.33.33 Fax +39-35-91.36.00
close to Lago d'Iseo 33km to Brescia
More Ferraris
?
How
to contact the Organizer
Mille Miglia Storica; Via Cassala
60; I-25126 Brescia; Italy;
Tel.: +39/(0)30/28 00 36;
Fax: +39/(0)30/48093
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