Mille Miglia: The great festival of the Alfisti 🎥
STILL FULL OF SAFT The Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Super Sport once again wins the Mille Miglia classic car rally. Last year's winners Andrea Vesco and Fabio Salvinelli leave around 400 teams in vehicles built between 1927 and 1957 behind them.
In the Mille Miglia, held from 1927 to 1957 as the most demanding road race in the world, Alfa Romeo was the most successful brand with eleven victories. Today, the 1000-mile tour is run as a classic car rally - and the winners still often drive an Alfa Romeo. In the latest edition, Italians Andrea Vesco and Fabio Salvinelli repeated their success from the previous year. On the route from Brescia near Lake Garda to the national capital of Rome and back, they once again left the 400 or so competitors behind them in the 1929 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Super Sport.
Winning duo always drove in time
The celebrity team with actor Tom Wlaschiha and journalist Nina Weizenecker took a remarkable 204th place for Mille Miglia newcomers. The two took on the challenge of the 144 timings in the 1954 Alfa Romeo 2000 Sportiva. In the Mille Miglia target time event, teams have to cover a certain distance exactly in a set time. Deviations are measured to the hundredth of a second. The winning duo rarely missed the ideal time by more than a tenth of a second with the Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Super Sport.
Models like the original race
As usual, only vehicles of the types that took part in the original road race were admitted to the 41st Mille Miglia Storico. Tom Wlaschiha and Nina Weizenecker's Alfa Romeo 2000 Sportiva was built only four times in 1954, two coupés and two spiders. The Mille Miglia vehicle of the two Germans, which has around 138 hp, comes from the Stellantis Heritage collection and can normally be admired in the Alfa Romeo factory museum in Arese near Milan.
