1000 Miglia 1950

About the Event

At the end of April, Italy ran her famous 1,000-mile Brescia-Breseini sports and touring car race under dreadful weather conditions. There was a record field of 383 and of them all, Giannini Marzotto’s Ferrari, with its V12 engine enlarged to 2,340 c.c., and a Supperleggera coupé body, gained a convincing victory at 76.57 m.p.h. Ferrari themselves had put in Ascari and Villoresi in the new 3-litre Ferraris and Alfa-Romeo were running their 2 1/2-litre cars in special short-chassis coupé form with swing-axle i.r.s. They were driven by Fangio, Rol and Bonetto, backed up by Sanesi’s car with experimental 3-litre engine. Biondetti, who had won this race four times previously, had an XK 120 Jaguar and Britain was further represented by the XK 120s of Johnson, Wisdom and Hume, Haines and Haller, and Ideb and Gaboardi, and the Healey Silverstones of Healey, Wood and Monkhouse, Richards and Lord, and by the pre-war Aston-Martin of Stapleton and Buffo.

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