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Med viss reservation för namn och antal döda: Louise von Portago åkte av vägen med sin fabriksMaserati och tog död på sig själv, sin mekaniker och 27 åskådare. |
Från: http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/cir-030
The other classic road race in Italy was the Mille Miglia - The Thousand Miles - which dates from 1927 and was held on a route from Brescia to Rome and back again. The event was about endurance as much as speed and the master was Clemente Biondetti who won the Mille Miglia in 1938, 1947, 1948 and 1949. In 1953 it became a round of the World Sportscar Championship and achieved much wider international attention after the victory of Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson in a Mercedes-Benz in 1955. Two years later Alfonso de Portago, his co-driver Edmund Nelson and 10 spectators - five of them children - were killed in the village of Guidizzolo when de Portago's Ferrari went out of control after a tire failure. Ferrari and the Englebert tire company were charged with manslaughter. In the 1980s the Mille Miglia was revived but the competitors drove sedately from town to town. It was not a race as once it was.


