{"id":316159,"date":"2010-08-16T17:47:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T21:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=316159"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:49:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:49:29","slug":"1931-mille-miglia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1931-mille-miglia\/","title":{"rendered":"1931 Mille Miglia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"justify\">The 1931 Mille Miglia Race<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Results:<\/strong> 1931 Mille Miglia Results \/ <strong>Dates:<\/strong> April 11-12, 1931 \/ <strong>Winner:<\/strong> Caracciola &#8211; Sebastian \/ <strong>Winning Speed: <\/strong>63.21 mph \/ <strong>Starters:<\/strong> 99 \/ <strong>Finishers:<\/strong> 59<\/p>\n<p>The effects of the Wall Street crash and subsequent depression worked its way across the ocean and on November of 1930 Daimler-Benz ceased all major racing activities. Alfred Neubauer desperate to maintain his relationship with the new German Ace, Rudolf Caracciola and sensing that the German company&#8217;s withdrawal was only temporary approached Dr William Kissel, managing director at Daimler-Benz with the idea of a personal services contract with the young driver whereupon the manufacturer would provide the equipment and support in exchange for a portion of all prize monies collected. This &#8220;support&#8221; included a generous stipend as well as use of a company car. With this Neubauer put together a small racing team which included Caracciola, his wife Charley, mechanic Willy Zimmer and co-driver Wilhelm Sebastian. It was said that Sebastian would later convince Caracciola to take the inside ditch of the Karussell at the Nurburgring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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Alfred Neubauer desperate to maintain his relationship with the new German Ace, Rudolf Caracciola and sensing that the German company&#8217;s withdrawal was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":796089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,3766,11272,261,16918,18207],"tags":[545,11349,11351,17140,452,13984,548,17225,17143],"class_list":["post-316159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-history","category-members-only","category-motorsport-racing","category-races","category-special-feature","tag-history","tag-gp-history","tag-motorsport-history","tag-members-only","tag-mille-miglia","tag-mille-miglia-the-races","tag-motorsport","tag-race-recap","tag-special-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1931 Mille Miglia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1931-mille-miglia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1931 Mille Miglia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 1931 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1931 Mille Miglia Results \/ Dates: April 11-12, 1931 \/ Winner: Caracciola &#8211; Sebastian \/ Winning Speed: 63.21 mph \/ Starters: 99 \/ Finishers: 59 The effects of the Wall Street crash and subsequent depression worked its way across the ocean and on November of 1930 Daimler-Benz ceased all major racing activities. 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