Mile Miglia tour hits capacity

The Mille Miglia regularity tour will take to the course of the famous Italian road race on May 15-18, with a capacity entry selected from over 1700 applications. Crews will tackle 49 tests over a 995-mile route from Brescia-Rome-Brescia.

Forty-four cars in the ’08 entry drove on the event in period, when it ran 24 times between 1927-57, and 40 of the entries are British. Notable cars include Giannino Marzotto’s winning Ferrari Berlinetta from 1950 and the Ferrari 340 in which Luigi Villoresi won a year later.