Mille Miglia 1934
The eighth Mille Miglia took place on April 7th and 8th, 1934 and ran over 1,616 km from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia.
The race
New routing
At the Mille Miglia in 1934 there were some not insignificant changes in the route. In Cremona , shortly after the start, there was a new road to Bologna , which shortened the route length by 34 kilometers, but increased the average speed. After the turning point in Rome , on the way back to the north, the route to Padua turned towards Venice (corresponded to today's Strada Statale 309 Romea ). The car bridge over the Venice lagoon had to be passed in both directions. From Treviso , the cars drove back to Brescia on parts of the Autostrada A4 , which opened in 1932 .
Teams and drivers
In 1934, Alfa Romeo factory returned to the Mille Miglia. Vittorio Jano developed a new 2.6-liter 8-cylinder in- line engine for the Alfa Romeo 8C . The company car was driven by Tazio Nuvolari . In order to maintain equal opportunities, Jano decided that Scuderia Ferrari, run by Enzo Ferrari , should also receive vehicles with the new engines. Ferrari had raced for Alfa Romeo with his racing team in 1933 and won the Mille Miglia with Nuvolari .
The top driver at Ferrari was Achille Varzi . For many years, Nuvolari and Varzi's relationship was marked by deep enmity. At the Bordino Cup in Alessandria, Northern Italy, in 1930 there was a scandal. The race was named after Pietro Bordino , who had a fatal accident there in 1928. Varzi and Novolari had a race on the bend, which eventually ended in a collision in which Varzi pushed Nuvolari off the track. Nuvolari broke his leg in the process. The rivalry at the Mille Miglia 1930 intensified . Both drove factory Alfa Romeos. But while Varzi adhered to a non-aggression pact issued by Jano at the end of the race, Nuvolari drove at full speed even with no lights on in the early night in order to be able to catch up with Varzi. He won the race and Varzi complained heavily about his compatriot in the Italian media. It was not until the Italian journalist and motorsport official Giovanni Canestrini , co-founder of the Mille Miglia, that the two drivers were reconciled in the spring of 1933.
Mario Tadini drove another Alfa Romeo from the Ferrari team . Tadini, owner of a chain of clothing stores, had financially supported Enzo Ferrari in founding Scuderia in 1929 and competed in sports car races. Louis Chiron was one of the most successful drivers in international motorsport in 1934 and, alongside Guy Moll, the second non-Italian to compete for the Scuderia. But the attraction in the team was a woman. Anna Maria Peduzzi drove an Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 SSft Spider Brianza with her husband Gianfranco Comotti .
As in the previous year, the MG factory team was at the start in Italy in 1934 . Three MG Magnette K3 were prepared . The cars registered in the class for sports cars up to 1.1 liter displacement were driven by Giovanni Lurani , Clifton Penn-Hughes , Earl Howe and Eddie Hall , whose wife was his co-driver. The only enclosed truck at the start was the work - Lancia Astura of Mario Nardilli and Carlo Maria Pintacuda . The only factory car from Maserati was a 4CS 1100 , driven by Piero Taruffi .
The three-way battle for victory
The result of the Mille Miglia 1934 was significantly influenced by the tires. For the first time since the first event in 1927 , the race was almost exclusively driven on wet roads. While the Scuderia Ferrari drivers could fall back on special rain tires from Pirelli , Nuvolari had to make do with dry tires from Dunlop in the factory Alfa Romeo . So he was handicapped from the start. In many publications the race is described as a duel between Varzi and Nuvolari; In truth, however, it was a three-way battle that was dominated by Mario Tadini halfway through the race. Tadini was leading at halftime in Rome and was only stopped by a gearbox failure on the drive back north. At the finish, Varzi was almost eight minutes ahead of Nuvolari. Chiron was more than an hour behind in third.
Results
Final ranking
Item | class | No. | team | Driver / passenger | vehicle | Travel time | ||
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1 | S 3.0 | 48 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza Spider Brianza 2.6 | 14: 08: 05,000 | ||
2 | S 3.0 | 44 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza Spider Brianza 2.6 | 14: 16: 58,000 | ||
3 | S 3.0 | 46 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza Spider Brianza 2.6 | 15: 24: 00,000 | ||
4th | S 3.0 | 59 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza 2.6 | 15: 29: 34,000 | |||
5 | S 1.1 | 8th |
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Maserati 4CS 1100 | 15: 39: 01,000 | ||
6th | S 3.0 | 60 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 | 16: 21: 31,000 | ||
7th | S 3.0 | 56 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 2.3 | 16: 38: 16,000 | ||
8th | S 3.0 | 57 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 | 16: 43: 17,000 | |||
9 | T 2.0 | 42 |
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Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Spider Brianza | 16: 55: 29,000 | |||
10 | T + 3.0 | 32 |
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Lancia Astura | 16: 58: 56,000 | ||
11 | S 1.1 | 3 |
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MG Magnette K3 | 17: 01: 14,000 | ||
12 | S 3.0 | 55 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 2.6 | 17: 24: 28,000 | |||
13 | S 1.5 | 27 |
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Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 SSft Spider Brianza | 17: 39: 55,000 | ||
14th | S 1.1 | 15th |
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Fiat Siata 508S | 17: 46: 32,000 | |||
15th | S 1.1 | 12 |
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Fiat 508CS Balilla Sport | 17: 49: 30,000 | |||
16 | S 1.5 | 25th |
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Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 | 17: 54: 04,000 | |||
17th | T + 3.0 | 31 |
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Lancia Lambda | 18: 02: 08,000 | |||
18th | S 1.1 | 7th |
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Fiat Siata 508S | 18: 21: 35,000 | |||
19th | S 1.1 | 4th |
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Fiat Siata 508S | 18: 31: 52,000 | |||
20th | S 1.1 | 22nd |
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Fiat 508CS Balilla Sport | 18: 41: 57,000 | |||
21st | S 1.1 | 20th |
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MG Magnette K3 | 18: 43: 35,000 | ||
22nd | T + 3.0 | 30th |
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Itala Speciale Diesel | 18: 46: 52,000 | |||
23 | T 2.0 | 38 |
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Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 GS | 18: 52: 56,000 | |||
24 | S 1.1 | 2 |
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Fiat 508CS Balilla Sport | 18: 55: 55,000 | |||
25th | S 3.0 | 61 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 | 19: 30: 00,000 | |||
26th | T 2.0 | 37 |
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Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 | 19: 36: 12,000 | |||
27 | S 3.0 | 53 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 | 19: 41: 00,000 | |||
28 | S 1.1 | 17th |
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Fiat 508CS Balilla Sport | 20:04:05,000 | |||
29 | S 1.3 | 13 |
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Fiat 508CS Balilla Sport | 22: 03: 00,000 | |||
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30th | S 1.1 | 5 |
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Fiat | ||||
31 | S 1.1 | 6th |
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MG Magnette K3 | |||
32 | S 1.1 | 10 |
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Fiat 508CS Balilla Sport | ||||
33 | S 1.1 | 11 |
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Fiat 508CS Balilla Sport | ||||
34 | S 1.1 | 14th |
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Fiat Siata 508S | ||||
35 | S 1.1 | 16 |
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MG Magnette K3 | |||
36 | S 1.1 | 18th |
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Fiat Siata 508S | ||||
37 | S 1.1 | 19th |
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Rocca 1100 | ||||
38 | S 1.1 | 21st |
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Fiat | ||||
39 | S 1.1 | 23 |
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Fiat 508CS Balilla Sport | ||||
40 | S 1.5 | 24 |
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Aston Martin Le Mans | |||
40 | S 1.5 | 26th |
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Maserati 4CS 1500 Campari & Sorniotti | ||||
41 | S 1.5 | 28 |
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Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 | ||||
42 | S 1.5 | 29 |
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Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 | ||||
43 | T 2.0 | 33 |
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Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 | ||||
43 | T 2.0 | 34 |
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Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 | |||
44 | T 2.0 | 36 |
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Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 | ||||
45 | T 2.0 | 39 |
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Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 | ||||
46 | T 2.0 | 40 |
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Alfa Romeo 6C 1900 GT | ||||
47 | T 2.0 | 41 |
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Alfa Romeo 6C 1900 GT | ||||
48 | T 2.0 | 43 |
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Alfa Romeo 6C 1900 GT | ||||
49 | S 3.0 | 45 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza Spider Brianza 2.6 | |||
50 | S 3.0 | 47 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 2.6 | |||
51 | S 3.0 | 50 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 | ||||
52 | S 3.0 | 52 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Touring | ||||
53 | S 3.0 | 54 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 | ||||
54 | S 3.0 | 58 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza 2.6 | |||
55 | S 3.0 | 63 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 | ||||
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56 | S 1.1 | 1 |
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Fiat | 1 | |||
57 | S 1.1 | 9 |
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Fiat | 2 | |||
58 | T 2.0 | 35 |
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Alfa Romeo | 3 | |||
59 | S 3.0 | 62 |
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 2.6 | 4th | |||
60 |
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Bentley 3/1 | 5 |
1 not started 2 not started 3 not started 4 not started 5 only used during training
Only in the entry list
No further reports are known for this race.
Class winner
Racing data
- Registered: 60
- Started: 55
- Race classes: 5
- Race day weather: Heavy rain
- Distance: 1623 km
- Racing series: did not belong to any racing series
literature
- Hans-Jörg Götzl : Mille Miglia Motorbuchverlag 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harvey T. Rowe: Men, women and engines - the memories of the Mercedes racing director Alfred Neubauer . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, p. 141
- ↑ a b Harvey T. Rowe: Men, women and engines - the memories of the Mercedes racing director Alfred Neubauer . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, p. 142
- ↑ Information on Giovanni Canestrini
- ↑ Information on Anna-Maria Peduzzi