Ferrari Mille Miglia Racing Featurette
This “Ferrari” featurette goes into depth about the most famous Italian automobile race of all time known as “The Mille Miglia” spanning 1,000 miles. Check it out.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:09 You're going broke.
00:10 So what do I do?
00:12 Win the Mille Miglia, Enzo.
00:13 Or you are out of business.
00:17 1,000 miles across bad roads with sheep and dogs,
00:20 anything can happen.
00:22 We have to win the Mille Miglia, then orders for sports
00:24 cars will follow.
00:26 Everyone's eye will be on it.
00:29 Only one team will win.
00:32 Make sure it's you.
00:33 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:38 The most famous race in Italy was the Mille Miglia.
00:43 I'm entering five cars, Collins, La Rufi, De Portago,
00:46 Von Trips, Jean de Biel.
00:49 The Mille Miglia was 1,000 mile race across open roads,
00:52 through mountains, through towns, through Vena,
00:55 the outskirts of Rome.
00:58 Back through Bologna all the way to Brescia in the north
01:01 where it began.
01:02 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:13 I've always loved this era in motorsports.
01:15 It's the most romantic, probably the most tragic and dangerous
01:18 period.
01:19 Pre-war up until the '50s and the jet age,
01:22 now we're accustomed to seeing big crashes
01:25 and drivers walking away.
01:27 In that era, they didn't.
01:29 And if they made a mistake, it was usually deadly.
01:32 [ENGINE REVVING]
01:36 This is an era in which the cars, particularly the Ferraris,
01:40 made a tremendous amount of power.
01:43 Everything in the Ferraris was cutting edge,
01:45 but the racing of the period was lethally dangerous.
01:50 The mortality rate of the spring team from '56 to '58
01:53 is about 50%.
01:56 So what possesses these men in the prime of their life
02:01 to do something like this?
02:04 Make no mistake, all of us are racers, or have been.
02:07 We all are certain it will never happen to be.
02:10 The answer is belief that it's never going to happen to me.
02:14 And my friend is killed.
02:16 I give up racing forever on Monday.
02:18 I'm back racing by Sunday.
02:20 But the addiction puts you right back in that seat.
02:23 We all know it's a deadly passion.
02:25 Our terrible joy.
02:26 It's a meditation, I think, in many ways,
02:33 because the speed is intense and focus required.
02:36 You don't really think about anything else.
02:38 So there's a cleansing process of the mind
02:41 where you don't listen to all the voices in your head.
02:45 There's potential dangers at every single turn.
02:49 OK, go for it!
02:50 There's an unknown that could happen at any moment.
02:53 But how in the midst of someone who is doing something
02:56 incredibly dangerous do you stay myoptically focused
03:00 on what you're trying to accomplish?
03:02 One race 1,000 miles across open roads
03:08 will determine some, not all, of the issues
03:11 that are colliding in these three months of 1957.
03:16 (car engine revving)