Some pics from Mille Miglia race in Italy.

The Mille Miglia race

The Mille Miglia race runs through the "Via Emilia Road" and it is a race for old vintage cars. Some years ago I was in "Via Emilia Road" and did some pictures to those old vintage cars.

For the people that don't know what "Mille MIglia" is here is a description from Wikipedia.

"The Mille Miglia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmille ˈmiʎʎa], Thousand Miles) was an open-road endurance race which took place in Italy twenty-four times from 1927 to 1957 (thirteen before the war, eleven from 1947).

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.[1]

From 1953 until 1957, the Mille Miglia was also a round of the World Sports Car Championship.

Since 1977, the "Mille Miglia" has been reborn as a regularity race for classic and vintage cars. Participation is limited to cars, produced no later than 1957, which had attended (or were registered) to the original race. The route (Brescia-Rome round trip) is similar to that of the original race, maintaining the point of departure / arrival in Viale Venezia in Brescia."

Here some more pictures bellow :

And one (half) from very near! Though old and vintage, those cars were running very fast.

Italy is a great place for such things :-)