1000 Miglia 2007

About the Event

The 2007 Mille Miglia, which starts from Brescia on May 17 and concludes in the Italian financial and industrial center on the 19th, will be packed with historic milestones. The first event was run 80 years ago this year; the last came to grief with the De Portago accident 50 years ago and MARVA, who are still at the helm, organized and ran the first Mille Miglia Storica for vintage cars using the current regularity formula 25 years ago.

There will be 375 starters in Brescia’s Via Venezia again this year—221 of them non-Italian entries—although more than double that number applied to compete. They will cover a 994-mile route from Brescia to the overnight halt at Ferrara, move on to Rome on day two and make their way from the Eternal City back to Brescia via old favorites like Viterbo, the Raticosa and Futa Passes, Florence, Bologna and Cremona. En route, this mobile museum, as the organizers like to call it, will compete in 40 timed sections—an increase of two over last year—that will contribute to victory, two of which will be in Brescia itself. One of the new features this year will see the cars run over a 17-mile circuit among the historic landmarks of Rome’s city center. On the way back to Brescia on May 18, the survivors will compete in the event’s last two timed tests at Modena as a tribute to Carrozzeria Scaglietti, who fashioned so many stunning Ferrari car bodies.

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