Alfa Romeo - 2018 Mille Miglia - The first stage
- 6 years ago
"After the sealing and racing and technical inspection procedures, the first stage of the 2018 Mille Miglia got under way yesterday. A record-breaking edition, with a total of 440 crews taking part, plus ten in the ""Military Category"", giving a total of 900 people, from 36 countries across every continent. The 450 cars accepted to take part in the 2018 Mille Miglia are of 72 different brands, and Alfa Romeo has a very large group, with 47 cars entered from the official and private teams.
Alfa Romeo is the brand which has put its name on the winners' board more than any other in the race's history: it can boast of eleven victories, eleven silver medals, ten third places and nine ""triples"", with its cars taking the top three places. So its bond with the competition is truly unique, and this year's is a really special edition, because it coincides with the ninetieth anniversary of the first win. To celebrate this milestone, the ""Alfa Romeo: the Mille Miglia in 90 places"" project has been created, to retrace the most significant stages in a unique story through ninety photos of the most emblematic locations, some of them also on this year's route.
The first touch on the accelerator was at 2.30 pm yesterday on Brescia's Viale Venezia, alongside the Rebuffone Gardens. Enthusiasm, passionate excitement and speed combine with the sensation that time has stood still. Journalist Giuseppe Tonelli, writing in 1927, described the Mille Miglia as ""something undefined, with a touch of the supernatural, which recalls old fairytales."" Time has not really stood still, so a historic re-evocation of the legendary race of the past is to be embraced with open arms. To quote Tonelli again: ""There is something about the name Mille Miglia that conjures up ground-breaking vehicle design and human daring."" More than ninety years have gone by, and technical progress is undeniable and self-evident, especially in Alfa Romeo Stelvio and Giulia."
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Alfa Romeo is the brand which has put its name on the winners' board more than any other in the race's history: it can boast of eleven victories, eleven silver medals, ten third places and nine ""triples"", with its cars taking the top three places. So its bond with the competition is truly unique, and this year's is a really special edition, because it coincides with the ninetieth anniversary of the first win. To celebrate this milestone, the ""Alfa Romeo: the Mille Miglia in 90 places"" project has been created, to retrace the most significant stages in a unique story through ninety photos of the most emblematic locations, some of them also on this year's route.
The first touch on the accelerator was at 2.30 pm yesterday on Brescia's Viale Venezia, alongside the Rebuffone Gardens. Enthusiasm, passionate excitement and speed combine with the sensation that time has stood still. Journalist Giuseppe Tonelli, writing in 1927, described the Mille Miglia as ""something undefined, with a touch of the supernatural, which recalls old fairytales."" Time has not really stood still, so a historic re-evocation of the legendary race of the past is to be embraced with open arms. To quote Tonelli again: ""There is something about the name Mille Miglia that conjures up ground-breaking vehicle design and human daring."" More than ninety years have gone by, and technical progress is undeniable and self-evident, especially in Alfa Romeo Stelvio and Giulia."
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