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[sergioloro]

hi all!! i am a great fan of 1955 mille miglia event, maybe because moss won with the beatiful mercedes n 722.
i have the route of the race : Brescia - Verona - Venice - Padua - Rovigo - Ferrara - Ravenna - Forli - Rimini - Pesaro - Ancona - Pescara - L'Aquila - Rieti - Rome - Viterbo - Radicofani - Siena - Florence - Futa Pass - Raticosa Pass - Bologna - Modena - Reggio Emilia - Parma - Piacenza - Cremona - Mantua - Montichiari.

there is any info about the roads they used?? numbers of roads, i want to recreate the route with google earth but there is too many roads that link this towns.

thanks in advance

sergio loro

[Manfred Cubenoggin]

Now, now, Sergio... The Mille Biglia for GPL is just a little bit too, too much, my friend.

(I initially mis-typed Miglia but then thought, 'Well, why not just leave it as is. Says it all, doesn't it?)

[sergioloro]

Now, now, Sergio... The Mille Biglia for GPL is just a little bit too, too much, my friend.

(I initially mis-typed Miglia but then thought, 'Well, why not just leave it as is. Says it all, doesn't it?)

[Gary Davies]

Aha! I will keep a beady eye on this thread. To cover the 1955 route is something that is firmly on my bucket list. Doubt I'll manage it in 10 hours seven minutes and 48 seconds though. Especially with 'er indoors in the passenger seat of the rentacar.

[Tim Murray]

The 1955 route didn't go to Venice. The relevant section should read:

Brescia - Verona - Vicenza - Padova - Rovigo - Ferrara - (etc)

This confusion of Vicenza with Venezia (Venice) appears in the Mike Lawrence Mille Miglia book - in a couple of the years (1937 and '38) when the event did go to Venice, his route lists both Venezia and Venice.

There are maps of all the routes used in the Lurani Mille Miglia book which, although small-scale, might give some idea of the roads used. If you don't have access to this book and would like a scan of the 1955 map, let me know.

[Roger Clark]

Mr. Doug Nye has, I believe, a detailed description of the route, prepared by one of the competitors...

[Tim Murray]

Here's a more comprehensive route listing (found here) :

Brescia — Desenzano del Garda — Peschiera del Garda — Verona — Vicenza — Padova — Monselice — Rovigo — Ferrara — Ravenna — Forlì — Cesena — Rimini — Pesaro — Fano — Senigallia — Ancona — Porto Civitanova — San Benedetto del Tronto — Giulianova — Pescara — Chieti scalo — Popoli — L'Aquila — Antrodoco — Rieti — Roma — Madonna di Bracciano — Monterosi — Vetralla — Viterbo — Bolsena — Radicofani — San Quirico d'Orcia — Siena — Poggibonsi — San Casciano in Val di Pesa — Firenze — Passo della Futa — Passo della Raticosa — Bologna — Modena — Reggio Emilia — Parma — Piacenza — Cremona — Mantova — Montichiari — Brescia.

and here's the map used in the Lurani book (found here) :

http://www.grandprix...54_55_56_57.jpg

[Alan Cox]

Mr. Doug Nye has, I believe, a detailed description of the route, prepared by one of the competitors...

...and still available to anyone with £722 to spare...
http://www.thesignat...xed-Set/3164325

[Tim Murray]

You're far too young, Lucio! You must have friends and family, though, who saw the race pass through San Benedetto - any good stories?

[gkennedy]

...and still available to anyone with £722 to spare...

722 to spare. How good is that?

[sergioloro]

thank you very much for all this info

[David Beard]

Mr. Doug Nye has, I believe, a detailed description of the route, prepared by one of the competitors...

Written on a toilet roll, and kept in a funny little aluminium box...
(1957 though, I think).

[Eric Dunsdon]

Thinking about Moss (and all the others) going flat out through towns, as much as we can read about it – Lurani, Canestrini, De Agostini or Jenkinson – I don’t think it is possible to realize not even in the slightest in these times of sanitized racing, silly health & safety and videogames what it meant to go literally like hell through metropolitan Italy – not scarcely inhabited coastal Mexico or Sicilian countryside. The top cars were literally F1-level cars on common roads, going through under our homes at full speed. The only surprising thing is it lasted that long.

One of the things that made me fall in love with Italian motor racing as a lad. Italy was the centre of the world then, and in many ways it still is! .