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may 14, 2015 - Millemiglia

Mille Miglia, Day 1: passion, tension, excitement

Passion, tension, excitement. Brescia is an international stage in great turmoil and the world of motorsport look with keen interest in the Mille Miglia 2015. The legend is back on the streets of the historic route through the half of Italy, from Brescia to Rome and then back to Brescia. The current edition is the thirty-third reenactment, 88 years after the first edition of what will become " the most beautiful race in the world." This morning, starting at 8:30 a.m., in Piazza Vittoria continued the ritual of punching, with the cars plunged into a crowd of fans, onlookers and journalists. Numbers and road book are given to the crews of the race and all the information on routes, times and distances. The rigorous testing techniques and sports are the prelude to what is one of the highlights of the race: the start. The first of the OM, which always start before all in honor of the victory of the House of Brescia at the first edition of 1927, has left the platform of Viale Venezia at 14:30. Great enthusiasm was recorded before the start of the boardwalk that took grant the three Mercedes - Benz 300 SLR, the "silver arrows" that triumphed sixty years ago, led respectively by Stirling Moss and Hans Hermann, as in 1955, and Ralph Schumacher, Michael's brother to replace Juan Manuel Fangio, who died a few years ago: it was a passage through the center of Brescia to honor and remember the extraordinary victory of the Mercedes - Benz, with Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson, in the edition of Mille Miglia 1955. The first stage, will end in a few hours, the expected arrival of the cars in Rimini, after the 438 competing cars pass through Desenzano, Sirmione, Verona, Ferrara and Ravenna, in a long ride to the Adriatic. Going back to the cars involved in the race, audits are just completed and have already decreed some significant numbers. Out of 438 registered candidates, they have been verified all the 438 cars. Among the cars at the start, there are cars from Mercedes - Benz Classic Museum in Stuttgart, the BMW Museum in Monaco, and cars from Porsche, Jaguar, Bugatti and Bentley without forgetting the specimens that came from the Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese. For celebrate the centenary of the Italian participation to the Great War, the National Union of Retired Officers of Italy for the section Gallarate, decided to pay homage to the great history of Italy, participating with nine classic military cars at the commemoration of the Mille Miglia with cars and crews representing all the Armed Forces And the Italian Military Corps of the State, who faced and overcame the first real World conflict of the history.