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00:00 The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance brings together not just the cars that made history,
00:05 but the people who made it with them.
00:08 Let's meet one of the legends who will be at Pebble Beach for the 65th Concours d'Elegance
00:13 this weekend.
00:14 When a group of wealthy auto enthusiasts discovered in the early 1920s that Brescia was about
00:20 to lose the Italian Grand Prix to arch rival Milan, they decided to have a race that was
00:24 bigger, better, more epic than any mere Grand Prix.
00:29 They decided to have a thousand mile road race from Brescia to Rome and back.
00:34 They called it simply the Mille Miglia.
00:38 Only three non-Italians ever won the Mille Miglia, but one of those victories was, in
00:43 my opinion, one of the greatest ever achievements in racing history.
00:49 The car?
00:50 The incredible Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR.
00:54 The driver?
00:55 The incomparable Sterling Moss.
00:57 Sterling Moss was Britain's superstar racing driver of the 1950s and early 1960s.
01:03 He won 212 of the 529 races he started, including 16 Formula One Grand Prix.
01:10 Do you look back on it now and think, "I must have been mad"?
01:13 Oh, absolutely.
01:14 I mean, the thought of ever having gone to those speeds with that much traffic on the
01:20 roads is the one race that really made me nervous.
01:23 One thousand miles on ordinary roads across Italy in 10 hours and 7 minutes.
01:29 Their average speed of 98 miles an hour for the thousand miles was 10 miles an hour faster
01:35 than the previous record.
01:37 No one would ever drive a faster Mille Miglia.
01:41 The term legend is often bandied about these days, but Sterling Moss is the real deal.
01:48 And his win in the 1955 Mille Miglia is probably the most epic drive of all time.
01:55 To see more cars that made history and hear more from legends like Sterling Moss, make
02:03 sure you tune in this Sunday for our exclusive coverage of the 65th Pebble Beach Concours
02:08 d'Elegance.
02:10 Live from the lawn of the lodge at Pebble Beach.
02:12 Only on the Motor Trend channel and Motor Trend On Demand.