{"id":316239,"date":"2010-08-28T19:06:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T23:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=316239"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:49:36","slug":"1949-mille-miglia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1949-mille-miglia\/","title":{"rendered":"1949 Mille Miglia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"justify\">The 1949 Mille Miglia Race<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Results:<\/strong> 1949 Mille Miglia Results \/ <strong>Dates:<\/strong> April 24-25, 1949 \/ <strong>Winner:<\/strong> Biondetti &#8211; Salani \/ <strong>Winning Speed:<\/strong> 82.16 mph \/ <strong>Starters:<\/strong> 303\/ <strong>Finishers:<\/strong> 182<\/p>\n<p>The 16th running of the Mille Miglia proved to be it&#8217;s most popular to date with over three hundred official entrants. In order to maintain some type of control the cars were now painted with their starting times as their racing numbers. The autostrada sections were for the most part eliminated as a result of countless complaints from the drivers. The North-South leg of the race no longer took place over the classic route of the Apennines with the Futa Pass between Bologna and Florence, but along the Tyrrhenian coast. 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