The 90th anniversary running of the Mille Miglia is now underway in Italy having started from Brescia on Thursday afternoon with overnights scheduled for Padova, Rome and Parma and ending in Brescia on Sunday afternoon. Mercedes-Benz entered ten cars from their collection including a 1928 710 SSK, a gaggle of varied 300SLs and one 1955 190SL, all driven by MB notables. Toto Wolff and Aldo Costa describe here the 1952 300SL W 194 Prototype they are crewing:
www.mercedesamgf1.comMB are also sponsoring the Mercedes Benz Mille Miglia Challenge running just ahead of the classic cars and consisting of 27 Privately entered cars. All are 2006 and later machines except for one 190SL and one 230 SL.
I will try to post a few pictures from the Parma overnight stop after the weekend.