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Mille Miglia: The World's Greatest Road Race

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Mr. Pritchard always writes a good book, with a wealth of detail. This book is no exception and goes into great detail regarding the history of the Mille Miglia, the cars which participated in it, and the major drivers. Almost all of the photos are ones that I have not previously seen, and there are a great many of them.

You will not find in-depth details of the cars here, and most of the photos are action shots from the races. This is not the place to look for inforamtion on the type of steering on a 1933 Alfa Romeo, or the chassis layout on a Mercedes 300 SLR. However, if you didn't know that Isetta ran their bubble-cars here in 1954 but are longing to know the details, or if you want to read A.F.P. Fane's post-race report to the BMW factory regarding the 328 he ran in 1938, or if you want to know the course layout of the 1932 race, this is the book for you.

I highly recommend this book for the racing historian. Technophiles or those interested in model car building will find it less attractive, although it does have much interesting information I have not seen elsewhere. I enjoyed it very much and recommend it highly.

Bob

Fantasic Books, greatest race ever! Wish there was more photos. My dad was part of this event in 1950s with Aston Martin; seeing Reg show up at the final stop in the DB3 with all three Webers wiring flat out-the linkage of which broke a mere 100 odd miles from the start! Reg refused to wait while Dickie repair, so off he went into 5th place , the highest ever for a British car!