ROME – A long ride, practically always headed from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia, crowned Andrea Vesco and Fabio Salvinelli as winners of the 2023 Mille Miglia. A true victory for the crew from Brescia aboard their luxurious Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 SS Zagato with the Villa Trasqua team’s 50th number since 1929, setting a record for uninterrupted victories for the “Frecchia Rossa” with their fourth consecutive win achieved (Vesco’s sixth victory overall).
Second place went to Gianmario Fontanella and Anna Maria Covelli with the No. 24 in the 1927 Lancia Lambda Spider Tipo 221, while the third step of the podium went to Andrea Luigi Bellomati and Gianluca Bergomi, still on the Lancia Lambda Spider Tipo 221, but this 1929 of the case, with the number 54.
Behind them, in fourth place, were Alberto and Federico Riboldi on their 1926 OM 665 S Superba 2000, while Mario and Lorenzo Turelli finished fifth in the standings on their 1929 OM 665 S Superba 2000. For all participants, a final walkway, gala lunch and awards ceremony with Viale Venezia in the Paddock Brixia Forum.
“The most beautiful race in the world”, as “Drake” Enzo Ferrari liked to call it, gave emotions and entertainment, always allowing a large and warm public to admire a real museum of moving cars.
Mille Miglia, the first self-driving test with the Maserati MC-20
The 41st edition of the Mille Miglia also brought with it the much-appreciated innovation of lengthening the race format, which lasted four to five days, to the delight of over four hundred participating crews and spectators. Also notable is the world debut on public roads for a car, covering some stretches in autonomous driving mode with Matteo Marzotto aboard the Maserati C20 Cielo of the “Mille Miglia Autonomous Drive” project.
“This race must always continue to be a container of beautiful things from the past with the aim of the future – underlined Marzotto – we must show an Italy that lives, thinks and works on more beautiful products. I talked to many foreign crews And I assure you they have no doubt: the 1000 Miglia is indeed the most beautiful race in the world.
Mille Miglia Charity for Research, a subsidiary of the race
This year also saw the Ferrari Tribute and Mille Miglia Green, a regularity race reserved for full-electric models, while the Mille Miglia was staged in solidarity with the charity for research in support of the Io-Women’s Cancer Centre, There were six pink drivers who raced in turns. Aboard an all-pink Lamborghini. The official voices of Radio Deejay, on the other hand, cover all stages of the race, both en route and during the days in Brescia and in the stage arrivals of Cervia-Milano Marittima, Rome, Milan and Parma. Finally, this evening, the musical Grand Finale with a free concert by Leo Gassmann, who will take to the Brescian stage in the Piazza Loggia.