THE MILLE MIGLIA 1953

Like the older Targa Florio and later the Carrera Panamericana, the MM made grand tourers like Alfa Romeo, BMW, Ferrari, Maserati, Mercedes Benz and Porsche famous. The race brought out an estimated five million spectators. WINNER : Giannino Marzotto
- Marco Crosara - Ferrari 340 MM Spyder Vignale
The race was established by the young Counts Aymo Maggi and Franco Mazzotti, sports manager Renzo Castagneto and motoring journalist Giovanni Canestrini, apparently in response to the Italian Grand Prix being moved from their home town of Brescia to Monza. Together with a group of wealthy associates, they chose a race from Brescia to Rome and back, a figure-eight shaped course of roughly 1500 km - or a thousand Roman miles. Later races followed twelve other routes of varying total lengths.
Durante 30 años -desde 1927 hasta 1957-, la Mille Miglia fue la prueba automovilística por excelencia y una de las competiciones más amadas por los italianos. Era la carrera que pasaba cerca de casa, o a muy pocos kilómetros, lo que permitía a la gente estar con sus ídolos del volante.

[@marksulloway5669]

Thank you for this.

[@honorguardsfencingclub7322]

The upbeat music is superb. How many people died that year?

[@AmericasChoice]

In 1953, worldwide? Probably millions and millions.

[@honorguardsfencingclub7322]

@@AmericasChoice the weakness of your pedantic attempt at humor is duly noted.

[@AmericasChoice]

@@honorguardsfencingclub7322 What? I guess I didn't understand your question. What are you actually asking?

[@honorguardsfencingclub7322]

@@AmericasChoice the original post is about the 1953 Mille Miglia, so I thought it was obvious that the question was how many people died at that race in that particular year.

[@AmericasChoice]

@@honorguardsfencingclub7322 I don't know. But the average from 1927-57 was 4 fatalities per year. Which is, granted, pretty bad.

[@LathropLdST]

You might maybe reach to an ML video correction youtuber. Maybe they can help stabilize the jumpy road segment with ML.