{"id":316264,"date":"2010-08-30T19:20:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T23:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=316264"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:49:36","slug":"1951-mille-miglia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1951-mille-miglia\/","title":{"rendered":"1951 Mille Miglia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"justify\">The 1951 Mille Miglia Race<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Results:<\/strong> 1951 Mille Miglia Results \/ <strong>Dates:<\/strong> April 28-29, 1951 \/ <strong>Winner:<\/strong> Villoresi &#8211; Cassani \/ <strong>Winning Speed:<\/strong> 76.13 mph \/ <strong>Starters:<\/strong> 325 \/ <strong>Finishers:<\/strong> 175<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari produced four new cars for this years race, the 340 America. Three were Touring barchettas for Ascari, Serafiini and Vittorio Marzotto while the fourth was a Vignale sports tourer for Villoresi. Gigi as he was popularly known had requested a roof over his head so that he would, in his own words not have to sit there for 13 consecutive hours &#8220;in a bordello of noise. It had taken him a long time to gain Ferrari&#8217;s acquiescence due to the old man&#8217;s belief that you could only win the Mille Miglia in an open car.<\/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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Gigi as he was popularly known had requested a roof over his head so that he would, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":796102,"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-316264","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>1951 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\/1951-mille-miglia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1951 Mille Miglia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 1951 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1951 Mille Miglia Results \/ Dates: April 28-29, 1951 \/ Winner: Villoresi &#8211; Cassani \/ Winning Speed: 76.13 mph \/ Starters: 325 \/ Finishers: 175 Ferrari produced four new cars for this years race, the 340 America. 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