{"id":369578,"date":"2011-11-02T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=38010"},"modified":"2024-01-11T03:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T03:03:07","slug":"thoughts-on-mille-miglia-north-america-tribute-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/thoughts-on-mille-miglia-north-america-tribute-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"1000 Miglia (2011) &#8211; North America Tribute Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Swig<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSCF2067.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-788852 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSCF2067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSCF2067.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSCF2067-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSCF2067-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSCF2067-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>On October 25-29, 2011 the Santa Barbara, California Stratus Media Group showed us their interpretation of a Mille Miglia. Originally scheduled for August, the Mille Miglia North America Tribute was postponed until October \u201cto allow entrants time to prepare their cars.\u201d I was interested to observe, because for twenty-one years I\u2019ve been involved with the California Mille.<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve always thought of the Mille as being, first and foremost, about driving legendary cars on the best roads we could find. Publicity was always secondary. Before creating our own event, our late co-founder, Ken Shaff, had done the Italian event at least four times. I had done it eight times.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t believe anyone from Stratus has driven the Italian Mille Miglia. Their route selection showed that, opting to pass through the congested San Francisco Peninsula twice in one day! In Italy, the cities are fun, with the motorcycle cops escorting the cars at high speed. In the U.S., not so much.<br \/>\nThe publicity materials and car display sites were first class. Photographers and staff were everywhere, even if the entry was light, and spectators scarce. One of the event photographers assigned to Carmel Valley Road saw only fifteen cars. On the turnaround section in Stinson Beach, I waited for hours and only saw twelve. But at the Monterey overnight, it looked like around 30 cars, including some entries suggesting a serious \u201cunder-subscription.\u201d In early publicity, Stratus announced a limit of 300 entries, to be selected from an expected 15,000 applications.<br \/>\nAt a Santa Barbara press conference about a month prior to the event, in answer to a question, the Stratus representative claimed 48 entries. He wouldn\u2019t state how many were paid, or how many of the cars were Mille Miglia correct. Note the \u201941 Ford Tudor, or the \u201953 Chevy Bel-Air 6 cylinder Powerglide with chromed, extra wide disc wheels and whitewall tires, and Tijuana tuck-and-roll-imitation interior! Wearing Mille Miglia numbers?? And reportedly trucked in from Arizona for the event! What was impressive was the number of sponsors \u2013 nearly as many sponsors as entrants.<br \/>\nOther overseas Mille Miglia events in Japan and Argentina, both of which I have driven in, the route selection and car entries (both number and quality) were much better.<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll see if Stratus is game to try again, after what must have been a big financial bust. In the meantime, our Amici americani della Mille Miglia has already staked out another fabulous, four-day California Mille 2012, using the best roads in the world here in Northern California from April 29th to May 3rd, 2012. Applications for entry can be found at <a title=\"California Mille\" href=\"http:\/\/www.californiamille.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.californiamille.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"More Thoughts on Mille Miglia North America Tribute\" href=\"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/more-thoughts-on-mille-miglia-north-america-tribute-2011\/\"><strong>(See Response from Sandro Binelli, MAC Group President and Secretary General of the Mille Miglia Organizing Committee)<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n[Source: Martin Swig]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Swig On October 25-29, 2011 the Santa Barbara, California Stratus Media Group showed us their interpretation of a Mille Miglia. Originally scheduled for August, the Mille Miglia North America Tribute was postponed until October \u201cto allow entrants time to prepare their cars.\u201d I was interested to observe, because for twenty-one years I\u2019ve been involved with the California Mille. We\u2019ve always thought of the Mille as being, first and foremost, about driving legendary cars on the best roads we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":788852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,13063],"tags":[432,15234,452,16402],"class_list":["post-369578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-events","category-vintage-car-racing","tag-events","tag-events-vintage-racing","tag-mille-miglia","tag-1000-miglia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thoughts on Mille Miglia North America Tribute 2011<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Martin Swig&#039;s comments on the 2011 Mille Miglia North America Tribute, held October 25-29 in Santa Barbara, California.\" \/>\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\/thoughts-on-mille-miglia-north-america-tribute-2011\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thoughts on Mille Miglia North America Tribute 2011\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Martin Swig&#039;s comments on the 2011 Mille Miglia North America Tribute, held October 25-29 in Santa Barbara, California.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/thoughts-on-mille-miglia-north-america-tribute-2011\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-11-02T12:00:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-11T03:03:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSCF2067.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Martin Swig\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Martin Swig\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/thoughts-on-mille-miglia-north-america-tribute-2011\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/thoughts-on-mille-miglia-north-america-tribute-2011\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Martin Swig\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ff052c42b7f069fb6f2d367dd74219c6\"},\"headline\":\"1000 Miglia (2011) &#8211; 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