The Mille Miglia was an endurance race which took place on open roads in Italy, and as the name suggests ran for approximately 1,000 miles. First run in 1927; between 1953 and 1957 it comprised a round of the World Sports Car Championship. Sadly however, two fatal accidents during the running of the 1957 event, one costing the lives of nine spectators - five of whom were children - saw the event banned. In 1977 the event was revived, though essentially as a parade, limited to cars produced no later than 1957, which had attended or registered for the original event. In the break between the Spanish and Monaco Grands Prix, Toto Wolff and Aldo Costa contested the event in a 1952 ex-Caracciola...
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