Mille Miglia 1948

Tazio Nuvolari contested his last major race at the 1948 Mille Miglia

Nuvolari before the start with a still intact Ferrari 166 Spyder Corsa

In Rome bonnet and wings are already missing

The sixth-placed Alfa Romeo 6C 2500SS Spider of Giampiero Bianchetti and Giovanna Maria Cornaggia Medici at the start in Brescia

The race winners Clemente Biondetti and Giuseppe Navone in the Ferrari 166S Coupé Allemano

The 15th Mille Miglia , also Mille Miglia, Brescia-Roma-Brescia , took place on May 2nd and 3rd, 1948 and ran over 1,833 km from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia.

Before the race

At the end of the 1930s, criticism of the 1000 mile race had also increased in Italy. After the Abyssinian War , which ended in 1936 with the subjugation of the Abyssinian Empire by Benito-Mussolini - Italy , the race was largely boycotted by non-Italian car manufacturers, racing teams and drivers. In 1938 a momentous incident occurred while driving through Bologna . The Lancia Aprilia of the two Italian amateur racing drivers Dr. Luigi Bruno and Angelo Mignanego had a serious accident when Mignanego lost control of the car on the rails of the tram at around 100 km / h and drove into a group of spectators. While the two drivers were as good as uninjured, ten spectators died in the accident, including seven children. When, shortly before the end of the event, a twelve-year-old girl was run over in another accident and died, the race was about to be abandoned. As a result of the eleven fatalities, the highest Italian motorsport authority banned the passage of town centers and inner cities during road races; that was the end of the 1000 mile race. After no race had taken place in 1939, when Fritz Huschke von Hanstein and Walter Bäumer won in 1940 a 165 km long circuit in the Po valley was driven through nine times.

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the race was held again in its old form two years later . The millions of dead in the war had eclipsed pre-war security concerns. When Clemente Biondetti and Emilio Romano won in the Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Berlinetta Touring , towns and cities were once again driven through at full speed.

Manufacturers, teams and drivers

The first two Mille Miglias after the end of the Second World War, 1947 and 1948, are a predetermined breaking point in Italian motorsport. Interrupted by the war years, many racing careers came to a standstill. Some pilots, although they were getting on in years, resumed their activities after the war and met a new generation of young drivers who were at the beginning of their careers. With Tazio Nuvolari - winner in 1930 and 1933 -, Antonio Brivio - successful in 1936 - and Biondetti, the winner of 1938 and 1947, three former overall winners were at the start. Drivers like Piero Taruffi , Franco Cortese and Giovanni Bracco had already started their careers in the 1930s. The new generation was shown in pilots such as Alberto Ascari , the son of Antonio Ascari , who died in an accident in Montlhéry in 1925 , the only 20-year-old Umberto Maglioli , who had made his debut as a racing driver at the Targa Florio a month earlier and as a co-driver of Bracco on Start was.

The four Marzotto brothers, Gianni , Paolo , Umberto and Vittorio all made their racing debuts. In addition to the veterans Mario Tadini , Piero Dusio and Archimede Rosa , the later Formula 1 drivers Franco Rol and Consalvo Sanesi were also registered.

Carlo Chiti , who drove a Fiat 1100 , later designed racing cars for Ferrari , Alfa Romeo Motorsport and Automobili Turismo e Sport ; Ferruccio Lamborghini , who built up his own sports car company, competed in a Fiat 500 Topolino .

For Enzo Ferrari's Scuderia , the 1948 race was the first Mille Miglia to be contested with Ferrari branded racing cars . Regular driver Franco Cortese drove a Ferrari 166S with Spyder bodies. Ferrari signed Clemente Biondetti to do this. Biondetti was not one of the Commendatore's avowed favorite pilots. Since the Scuderia was founded in 1929, he had never offered the Sardinian, born in 1898, a cockpit. As the winner of 1938 and 1947, however, Biondetti could no longer be ignored. Biondetti drove a 166S with an Allemano coupé body . The relationship between the racing team owner Enzo Ferrari and Tazio Nuvolari was completely different. Since the beginning of the Scuderia's racing activities, Nuvolari had competed for him again and again and had won the first 1000 mile race for the racing team in 1933. In early 1948, however, Nuvolari's health was in poor health. The last six months he had spent almost exclusively in a sanatorium, where he was treated for his damaged lungs and severe bronchial asthma . Ferrari needed all of his persuasion to get Nuvolari off to a start. Nuvolari agreed only two days before the race.

Neither Maserati nor Alfa Romeo were represented by a works team. The new A6GCS were given to private teams. Alberto Ascari drove one of them. Also Cisitalia renounced a plant use, and also gave the cars on to private drivers. In 1947, the racing car manufacturer founded by Piero Dusio in 1943 was the surprise of the race. Nuvolari had to admit defeat in the 1.1-liter Cisitalia 202SMM Spider only to Biondetti in the 3-liter Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Berlinetta Touring.

The British Donald Healey Motor Company came to Italy as the only non-Italian team . The young company founded in 1946 by Donald Mitchell Healey was represented with four vehicles. One piloted Healey himself with his son Geoffrey .

A total of 232 teams were registered, 189 of which started the race.

Tazio Nuvolari's last big race

The 1948 Mille Miglia went down in motorsport history as Nuvolaris' last major race. What happened on the way from Brescia to Rome and back had almost more to do with an Italian opera than with a car race. Even today, the number of spectators along the 1,800 km long route cannot be precisely quantified. Several million people can read historical documents. As the race was broadcast live by some Italian radio stations, more and more people flocked to the track as the day went on to witness the dramatic drive from Nuvolari. The Ferrari 166 Spyder Corsa , with which Nuvolari drove, was designed as a Formula 2 racing car and was more of a monoposto than a sports car. Nuvolari had no knowledge of the car and had not trained a meter on the track; he relied solely on instinct and experience.

He had his first accident on the way to Rome. The damaged left fender and bonnet were thrown away without further ado. At the turning point in Rome, he had an incredible one hour lead over the rest of the field. The little Ferrari was not up to the constant impetuous driving style of its pilot. When crossing the Apennines, the driver's seat broke out of its holder. Nuvolari quickly replaced it with a sack of oranges that he picked up at a market stall. Before the stop in Modena , he destroyed a shock absorber in the front , but since he was still in the lead 29 minutes ahead of Biondetti, Enzo Ferrari could not persuade him to give up either. Only when all the brakes on the car were defective just before Parma and the Ferrari could no longer be kept on the track did it give up, to the chagrin of the many millions of listeners on the radio. Strangely, the first spectator to see him on the completely wrecked car was a priest, the Nuvolari, physically at the end of the day, asked for a bed.

Nuvolari is said to have said to Enzo Ferrari after the race: “Enzo, days like this are rare at our age. We have to savor it as best we can. ”After Nuvolari's retirement, Biondetti won with a record lead of 28 minutes over Alberto Comirato's and his wife's wife Lia's Fiat 1100 Sport .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	Driver / passenger	vehicle	Travel time
1	S 2./+ 2.0	16	Scuderia Ferrari	Clemente Biondetti Giuseppe Navone	Ferrari 166S Coupé Allemano	15:05: 44,000
2	S 1.1	73		Alberto Comirato Lia Comirato Dumas	Fiat-Comirato 1100 Sport	16: 33: 08,000
3	S 1.1	1021		Francesco Apruzzi Angelo Apruzzi	Fiat 1100 S Berlinetta	16: 52: 30,000
4th	S 1.1	82	Aldo Terigi	Aldo Terigi M. Berti	Stanguellini S1100 Spider Carr. Ala d'Oro	16: 57: 10,000
5	S 1.1	15th		Giudo Scagliarini Cornelio Maffiodo	Cisitalia 202 Berlinetta	17:00: 05,000
6th	S 2./+ 2.0	57		Giampiero Bianchetti Giovanna Maria Cornaggia Medici	Alfa Romeo 6C 2500SS Spider	17: 02: 43,000
7th	S 1.1	248		Carlo Scagliarini Guglielmo Masi	Stanguellini S1100	17: 14: 39,000
8th	S 1.1	1010		Emilio Christillin Emanuele Nasi	Fiat 1100	17: 17: 04,000
9	S 2./+ 2.0	44	Donald Healey Motor Company	Donald Healey Geoffrey Healey	Healey 2400 Westland	17: 26: 10,000
10	S 1.1	126		N. Colnaghi F. Pozzoni	Fiat 1100S Berlinetta	17: 27: 56,000
11	S 1.1	89		Enrico Anselmi Remy Jacazio	Fiat 1100	17: 29: 41,000
12	S 1.1	1016		Rolli C. Cannara	Stanguellini S1100 Berlinetta Bertone	17: 31: 20,000
13	T + 1.1	76		Giovanni Lurani Guglielmo Sandri	Healey 2400 Elliott	17: 32: 12,000
14th	S 1.1	425		A. De Michelis, A. Pedrocco	Fiat 1100S Berlinetta	17: 36: 14,000
15th	S 1.1	1014		Geremia Merati C. Tenconi	Fiat 1100S Berlinetta	17: 44: 50,000
16	T + 1.1	502		Mario Bornigia Franco Bornigia	Lancia Aprilia	17: 47: 49,000
17th	T + 1.1	1031		Giovanni Bracco Umberto Maglioli	Lancia Aprilia	17: 51: 50,000
18th	S 1.1	188		Antonio Bortolami O. Pippa	Fiat 1100	17: 58: 02,000
19th	T + 1.1	446		S. Asti F. Asti	Lancia Aprilia	17: 59: 04,000
20th	T + 1.1	38		Leonardo Quadri Mirella Quadri	Lancia Aprilia	18:04: 50,000
21st	S 1.1	104	Giuseppe Bertone	Giuseppe Bertone Franco Bertani	Stanguellini S1100	18: 06: 05,000
22nd	S 2./+ 2.0	224		Spartaco Graziani L. Consani	Alfa Romeo 6C 2500	18: 13: 05,000
23	T + 1.1	1029		Ezio Ferraris A. Garlanda	Lancia Aprilia	18: 14: 46,000
24	S 1.1	450		Achille Fona L. Beltrami	Fiat 1100	18: 16: 47,000
25th	S 1.1	1015		Giulio Rollino Angelo Poggio	Fiat 1100S Berlinetta	18: 24: 26,000
26th	T + 1.1	21st		Aldo Bianchi Aretto	Lancia Aprilia	18: 45: 32,000
27	T + 1.1	504		Stefano Marsaglia G. Marsaglia	Lancia Aprilia	18: 47: 26,000
28	T + 1.1	751		Giannino Marzotto Umberto Marzotto	Lancia Aprilia	18: 54: 55,000
29	S 1.1	319		Carlo Braga Egisto Baistrocchi	Fiat 1100 Spider Carr. Ala d'Oro	18: 55: 28,000
30th	T + 1.1	1027		S. Romei B. Burgassi	Lancia Aprilia	18: 58: 55,000
31	S 1.1	283		Adino Chieregato Gian-Paolo Volpini	Cisitalia 202SMM	19: 13: 48,000
32	T + 1.1	173		M. Longoni Cantalupo	Lancia Aprilia	19: 17: 45,000
33	S 2./+ 2.0	515		Agostino di Stefano P. Pecora	Alfa Romeo 6C 2500SS Coupé Touring	19: 22: 23,000
34	T + 1.1	162		S. Pernigotti Zorzoli	Lancia Aprilia	19: 25: 24,000
35	S 1.1	417		O. Bettini A. Lorenzini	Fiat 1100	19: 36: 28,000
36	T + 1.1	511		Romano Biagetti G. Magrini	Lancia Aprilia	19: 37: 20,000
37	S 750	1036		Sandro Fiorio Piero Avalle	Fiat Siata 500 Pescara	19: 37: 29,000
38	T + 1.1	286		Pietro Pozzi B. Mari	Lancia Aprilia	19: 43: 07,000
39	T + 1.1	455		G. Ramaioli B. Mangano	Lancia Aprilia	19: 47: 12,000
40	T + 1.1	287		Alberto Mazza G. Romanelli	Lancia Aprilia	19: 48: 03,000
41	T + 1.1	1025		Luigi Marcolini A. Carbonini	Lancia Aprilia	19: 56: 23,000
42	T + 1.1	481		O. Bruschi M. Giordano	Lancia Aprilia	20: 03: 30,000
43	T + 1.1	1030		Marco Ferrini Emilio Fioruzzi	Lancia Aprilia	20: 03: 56,000
44	T + 1.1	106		Mario Reynaldi Orlando Cravotto	Lancia Aprilia	20:04:34,000
45	T 1.1	127		Diego Capelli Giuseppe Veronelli	Fiat 1100	20:05:42,000
46	S 750	1037		Carlo Francesconi G. Chinellato	Fiat 500 Siata	20: 23: 36,000
47	S 750	281		G. Panzacchi A. Faccioli	Fiat Siata 500	20: 48: 45,000
48	S 1.1	458		Bruno Moroni A. Carta	Fiat 1100	20: 49: 39,000
49	S 1.1	465		Luigi Merati P. Tenconi	Fiat 1100	20: 53: 47,000
50	T 1.1	1018		G. Forte R. Moneta	Fiat 1100	21: 04: 00,000
51	T 1.1	135		Luigi Segré Bruno Martignoni	Fiat 1100 Monviso	21: 12: 30,000
52	T 1.1	1005		Giuseppe Coriasco Adone Bianchi	Lancia Ardea	21: 13: 16,000
53	T 1.1	697		Giuseppe Attanasio Aurelio Lorenzetti	Fiat 1100	21: 15: 50,000
54	S 1.1	1060		Luigi Zannini G. Cristina	Fiat 1100S Berlinetta	21: 17: 56,000
55	S 1.1	238		Alberico Cacciari Marcelo Gallerani	Fiat 1100S Berlinetta	21: 22: 16,000
56	S 750	149		Antonio Nicolai Ferdinando Cagnotto	Fiat 500	21: 51: 46,000
57	S 750	1033		Rinaldo Bossini Mario Facca	Fiat 500	23: 53: 53,000
58	S 750	1040		W. Rivarola Aldo Berardi	Fiat 500	24: 35: 18,000
59	T 1.1	435		M. Falleni Guido Roghi	Fiat 1100	24: 48: 06,000
60	S 750	438		Naborre Masetti A. Masetti	Fiat 500	24: 53: 46,000
61	S 750	1038		Domenico Ogna C. Ogna	Fiat 500	25: 04: 05,000
62	S 2./+ 2.0	268		M. de Peppo D. Pisaneschi	Fiat 1500	25: 04: 48,000
63	S 750	1044		P. Rossi Bruno Facchetti	Fiat 500	25: 22: 36,000
64	T 1.1	1002		Gino Lochi and Zunica	Fiat 500	26: 31: 13,000
Failed
65	S 2./+ 2.0	3	Scuderia Ambrosiana	Alberto Ascari Guerino Bertocchi	Maserati A6GCS
66	S 2./+ 2.0	7th		Piero Taruffi Domenico Rabbia	Cisitalia 1200 Berlinetta Aerodinamica
67	S 2./+ 2.0	10	Scuderia Ferrari	Franco Cortese Adelmo Marchetti	Ferrari 166S Spider
68	S 2./+ 2.0	20th		Franco Rol Alessandro Gaboardi	Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Competizione
69	S 1.1	22nd		Piero Dusio Carlo Dusio	Cisitalia 202SMM
70	S 1.1	23		Mario Porrino A. Delpiano	Cisitalia 202MM Spider Razzo
71	S 2./+ 2.0	30th		Mario Tadini Carlo Canavesi	Alfa Romeo ND 6C 2500 Spider
72	T + 1.1	37		Nick Haines Rodolfo Haller	Healey 2400 Elliott
73	S 2./+ 2.0	51	Emilio Romano	Emilio Romano P. Cresta	Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B
74	S 1.1	52		Pasquale Ermini M. Quentin	Fiat Ermini 1100 Sport
75	S 1.1	53		Felice Bonetto Milto Maritano	Cisitalia 202SMM
76	S 2./+ 2.0	56	Scuderia Ambrosiana	Vincenzo Auricchio Gualaschi	Maserati A6GCS
77	S 1.1	61		Franco Cornacchia Piero Facetti	Cisitalia 202
78	S 2./+ 2.0	63	Scuderia Ambrosiana	Ovidio Capelli Orlando Gerli	Maserati A6GCS
79	S 2./+ 2.0	65		Ermanno Gurgo Salice Archimede Rosa	Alfa Romeo 6C 2500SS
80	S 2./+ 2.0	67	Scuderia Ambrosiana	Salvatore Ammendola Mario Baj	Maserati A6GCS
81	S 2./+ 2.0	69		Giovanni Cattina M. Benaglia	Alfa Romeo 6C 2500
82	S 1.1	84		Lorenzo Girard Mario Carando	Fiat 1100
83	S 1.1	86		Inico Bernabei Sari	Cisitalia 202 MM Berlinetta
84	S 2./+ 2.0	92		Enrico Adanti Spadoni	Lancia Aprilia Spider
85	S 750	97		Giulio Baravelli M. Pomes	Fiat 500
86	S 750	100		Andrea Gorla Mario Avalle	Fiat 500
87	T 1.1	101		Luigi Zanetti R. Alberti	Fiat 1100
88	S 1.1	107		Adolfo Macchieraldo G. Castelli	Cisitalia 202 Berlinetta
89	S 750	113		Antonio Prina Pietro Fontanella	Fiat 500
90	S 750	117		Renato Ambrosini D. Borgialli	Siata 500 Spider Fiat
91	S 1.1	120		Gino Valenzano R. Motto	Fiat ND
92	S 1.1	121		Dioscoride Lanza Vincenzo Leone	Fiat-Leone 1100 Sport
93	S 2./+ 2.0	123		L. Colombo Giorgio Morelli	Lancia Aprilia
94	T 1.1	129		Gino De Sanctis Agostino Prosperi	Fiat 508C Balilla
95	T + 1.1	133		Franco Piccinini Armando François	Lancia Aprilia
96	S 1.1	136		L. Da Fano Galimberti	Fiat 1100
97	S 1.1	136		A. Zardi V. Zanardi	Fiat 1100
98	S 1.1	144		Roberto Gandini S. Tedeschi	Fiat 1100S Berlinetta
99	S 1.1	158		G. Parazzoli G. Gaboardi	Cisitalia 202
100	S 2./+ 2.0	160		Alberto Nespoli Antonio Brivio	Lancia Aprilia
101	S 1.1	163		Ettore Morelli Armando Morelli	Fiat 1100
102	S 2./+ 2.0	178	Bruno Sterzi	Bruno Sterzi Ferdinando Righetti	Ferrari 166S Spider Allemano
103	S 1.1	181		Aprile Palmer W. Moroni	Cisitalia 202
104	S 1.1	200		Carlo Restelli A. Finardi	Fiat 1100
105	S 1.1	206		U. Veroni M. Ferraris	Fiat 1100
106	S 1.1	210		Giulio Cabianca Ernesto Menato	Fiat 1100
107	S 2./+ 2.0	211		A. Bosi J. Vincis	Citroën 15
108	S 750	236		Renato Turolla Francesco Turolla	Fiat 500
109	S 1.1	241		Enzo Garufi Luisa Pozzoli	Stanguellini S1100
110	S 2./+ 2.0	251		Francesco Beneventano Nino D'Agata	Alfa Romeo ND 6C 2500 Spider
111	S 750	255		V. Ceccoli Giampiero Segafredo	Fiat 500
112	T 1.1	257		Armando Bevilacqua P. Carboni	Fiat 1100 Metano
113	S 750	293		Vito Barion Vittorino Barion	Fiat 500 Berlinetta
114	S 2./+ 2.0	297	Soave Besana	Soave Besana Gabriele Besana	Ferrari 166 Spyder Corsa
115	S 750	303		Mario Fenocchio Domenico Fenocchio	Fiat Siata Spider Corsa
116	S 750	303		Mario Fenocchio Domenico Fenocchio	Fiat Siata Spider Corsa
117	S 750	314		Enrico Cané A. Bignardi	Fiat 500
118	S 750	329		Eugenio Genazzoni S. Corsini	Fiat 500
119	T 1.1	354		R. Sava Michele Schermi	Fiat 1100
120	S 2./+ 2.0	356		Angelo Russo Gino Giovanni Ughetti	Stanguellini 2800SN
121	S 2./+ 2.0	364		Sonio Coletti Perucca Mario Theodoli	Lancia Aprilia
122	S 1.1	367		Banfi L. Benzoni	Cisitalia 202
123	S 1.1	391		Carrara I. Artina	Fiat 1100
124	S 1.1	395		A. Pedretti Alessio	Fiat 1100S Spider
125	S 750	407		F. Cerioli G. Meroni	Fiat 500
126	S 750	424		M. Xausa Vincon	Fiat 500
127	S 1.1	426		B. Loviselli E. Loviselli	Fiat 1100
128	S 750	427		Ferruccio Lamborghini G. Baglioni	Fiat 500
129	S 750	434		Francesco Giardini G. Cassai	Fiat 500
130	S 1.1	439		Mario Brambilla Dante Spreafico	Fiat 1100
131	T 1.1	441		Antonio Mantori G. Risetti	Fiat 1100
132	S 1.1	444		Roberto C. Bonetti	Fiat 1100
133	T 1.1	448		Stefano Alquati G. Mondini	Fiat 1100
134	S 1.1	453		G. Bernardi Marzola	Fiat 1100
135	T 1.1	463		Giovanni Caffaro M. Caffaro	Fiat 1100
136	T + 1.1	464		D. Minardi E. Zeni	Lancia Aprilia
137	S 750	469		S. Marabini Corsini	Fiat 500
138	S 750	477		Carlo Strozzi Caretti	Fiat 500
139	S 2./+ 2.0	510		Filippo Tassara Giuseppe Tassara	Maserati A6 1500 Berlinetta Pinin Farina
140	S 1.1	513		P. Jancovich Polacco	Fiat 1100
141	T 1.1	516		Bruno Mazzi Emo Terragnoli	Lancia Ardea
142	T 1.1	518		Innocente Maggi Zavattarelli	Fiat 1100
143	S 750	529		Marcello L. Bruno	Fiat 500
144	S 750	530		L. Garbini A. Casoni	Fiat 500
145	T + 1.1	537		Vittorio Marzotto Paolo Marzotto	Lancia Aprilia
146	S 1.1	538	Automobili Stanguellini	Ferdinando Bassi M. De Minicis	Stanguellini S1100
147	S 1.1	540		Tredici L. Garrone	Cisitalia 202 Berlinetta
148	S 2./+ 2.0	541		Edmondo Bucci Pellegrino Gullini	Fiat 1500
149	S 1.1	547		A. Sebastiani P. Ceccarelli	Fiat 1100
150	T + 1.1	549		L. Montagni A. Montagni	Lancia Aprilia
151	T 1.1	674		R. Guerrieri A. Giannelli	Fiat 1100
152	T + 1.1	704		C. Torello V. Campigli	Lancia Aprilia
153	T + 1.1	706		Marco Duberti C. Coda	Lancia Aprilia
154	T 1.1	707		Mario Coda A. Guglielminotti Contin	Lancia Ardea
155	T 1.1	710		Bianconcini Giovanni Branchini	Fiat 1100 Metano
156	S 1.1	733		S. Manzoni Roberto Lippi	Fiat 1100
157	S 1.1	758		Death Co L. Pocher	Fiat 1100
158	T + 1.1	761		Bruno Venetian Achille Albarelli	Lancia Aprilia
159	S 1.1	762		Balboni Roberto Sgorbati	Fiat 1100S Berlinetta
160	T 1.1	768		Ilfo Minzoni Carlo Chiti	Fiat 1100
161	S 1.1	769		Aldo Benedetti Nino Ricci	Fiat 1100
162	S 750	770		Maggiorello Maggiorelli Anselmo Maggiorelli	Fiat 500
163	T + 1.1	781		Plinio Bona Luciano Pavignano	Luciano Pavignano
164	S 750	783		Musa E. Maestri	Fiat 500
165	T + 1.1	787		Mario Simonetti G. Macola	Lancia Aprilia
166	S 750	788		Attilio Brandi Enrico Turri	Fiat 500
167	T 1.1	791		Pietro Moscucci Giulio Moscucci	Fiat 1100
168	S 1.1	795		A. Morandini A. Marchetti	Stanguellini S1100
169	S 2. / + 2.0	798		Guerrino Faccioni Lino Franceschetti	Maserati A6GCS
170	T 1.1	1006		Silvano Cai G. Ambrogi	Fiat 500
171	S 1.1	1008		G. Chiappero A. Ciucci	Cisitalia 202
172	S 1.1	1009		Giorgio Castelnuovo Siro Sbraci	Fiat 1100
173	S 1.1	1011		Arnaldo Bellini Gianni Damiani	Fiat 1100
174	S 1.1	1012		E. Flamini, R. Flamini	Fiat 1100S Berlinetta
175	S 1.1	1022		F. Scotti Gianfranco Pieratelli	Fiat 1100S Berlinetta
176	S 1.1	1023		T. Gamba Giambelli	Fiat 1100
177	T + 1.1	1026		G. Porta Alessandro Tavolino	Lancia Aprilia
178	S 750	1034		Vittorio Bulgarini F. Morandi	Fiat 500
179	S 750	1035		F. Crivellari Caprioglio	Fiat 500
180	S 2. / + 2.0			Mario Pareschi Emilio Bolognesi	Alfa Romeo 6C 2500
181	S 750	1039		D. Pulidori G. Cioni	Fiat 500
182	S 750	1041		Giuseppe Santi B. Saiella	Fiat 500
183	S 750	1046		Rino Ferniani Piero Pierazzoli	Fiat 500
184	S 2./+ 2.0	1047		Consalvo Sanesi Giulio Sala	Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Competizione Berlinetta
185	S 2./+ 2.0	1049	Scuderia Ferrari	Tazio Nuvolari Andrea Scapinelli	Ferrari 166 Spyder Corsa
186	S 2./+ 2.0	1050		Giorgio Rota Gottardo	Alfa Romeo
187	S 2./+ 2.0	1051		P. Campanella P. Gianni	GPG 2000
188	S 750	1070		Ugo Bormioli R. Zanini	Fiat 500
189	S 1.1	1090		Giuseppe Borelli Toni	Fiat 1100

Only in the entry list

Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
190				Tazio Nuvolari	Cisitalia
191	S 2./+ 2.0	31		Franco Venturi	Alfa Romeo
192	T + 1.1	39		Pierre Nessi Zolla	Healey 2400
193	S 2. / + 2.0	42		John Gordon Lance Macklin	Lancia Astura
194	S 2. / + 2.0	43		billiards	Hotchkiss
195	S 2. / + 2.0	58		Nino Rovelli	BMW 328
196	S 1.1	93		Zagata Gastone Crepaldi	Fiat
197	S 1.1	95		Francesco Arezzo	Fiat 1100
198	S 2./+ 2.0	143		Luigi Della Chiesa Mariano Brandoli	Fiat 1500
199	S 2./+ 2.0	154		Enrico Beltracchini Civettini	Auto Avio Costruzioni Tipo 815
200	S 1.1	190		Pierre Boncompagni PL Cantini	Fiat 1100
201	S 1.1	215		Alceo Padovani Bruno Fontanini	Fiat
202	S 2./+ 2.0	240		I. Pezzoli Bruno Bonini	Fiat 1500
203	S 2./+ 2.0	242		Enrico Adanti Silvio Rondina	Lancia Aprilia
204	S 1.1	247		Mario Camellini	Fiat
205	T 1.1	318		Sergio Di Grazia Luciano Pagliai	Fiat 1100
206	S 750	324		E. Manfredini	Fiat 500
207	S 2./+ 2.0	340		Ezio Ferraris A. Garlanda	Lancia Aprilia
208	T + 1.1	389		Francesco Toia Domenico Tramontana	Lancia Aprilia
209	T 1.1	416		Domenico Minneci Antonio di Salvo	Fiat 1100
210	T 1.1	428		Bertolaso Mettimano	Fiat 1100
211	S 750	442		Ettore Bianco	Fiat 500
212	S 750	447		Luciano Prandina N. Battaglini	BMW
213	T + 1.1	460		Granero Vercellino	Lancia Aprilia
214	T + 1.1	467		U. Pozzi	Lancia Aprilia
215	S 750	470		S. Marabini V. Zanardi	Fiat 500
216	T 1.1	473		Luigi Rabitti F. Carlini	Fiat 1100
217	T + 1.1	486		Collina Bruno Ronconi	Lancia Aprilia
218	T + 1.1	493		B. Mari	Lancia Aprilia
219	S 1.1	495		Mario Giobellina Dante Spreafico	Cisitalia
220	T + 1.1	499		C. Tamburini V. Fontana	Lancia Aprilia
221	S 2./+ 2.0	507		Gaggero	Citroën
222	S 1.1	514		Dezza Barbieri	Fiat 1100
223	S 2./+ 2.0	543		Carlo Pottino	Alfa Romeo
224	S 2./+ 2.0	782		F. Agostini Dante Fornari	Lancia Aprilia
225	S 1.1	1001		Stefano La Motta Raimondo Lanza	Cisitalia 202
226	T 1.1	1003		Plinio Ferrari	Fiat 1100
227	T 1.1	1004			Fiat 1100
228	T 1.1	1007		Luigi Caratti Minola	Fiat 500
229	T + 1.1	1024		Gabbi Bernini	Lancia Aprilia
230	S 750	1042		Bruno Martignoni G. Ossena	Fiat 500
231	S 1.1	1045		De Negri	Fiat 1100
232	S 2./+ 2.0	1097		Masai GOS	Alfa Romeo

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S 2./+ 2.0	Clemente Biondetti	Giuseppe Navone	Ferrari 166S Coupé Allemano	Overall victory
S 1.1	Alberto Comirato	Lia Comirato Dumas	Fiat-Comirato 1100 Sport	Rank 2
S 750	Sandro Fiorio	Piero Avalle	Fiat Siata 500 Pescara	Rank 37
T + 1.1	Giovanni Lurani	Guglielmo Sandri	Healey 2400 Elliott	Rank 13
T 1.1	Diego Capelli	Giuseppe Veronelli	Fiat 1100	Rank 45

Racing data

• Reported: 232
• Started: 189
• Rated: 64
• Race classes: 5
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 1833.038 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 15:05: 44,000 hours
• Overall rounds of the winning team: 1
• Total distance of the winning team: 1833.038 km
• Winner's average: 121.227 km / h
• Pole position: none
• Fastest race lap: none
• Racing series: did not belong to any racing series

literature

• Hans-Jörg Götzl: Mille Miglia. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-02562-0 .

Web links

Commons : Mille Miglia 1948  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Official website
• Race results

Individual evidence

1. ^ The 1938 accident at Motorsport Memorial
2. ↑ Mille Miglia 1940
3. ↑ Mille Miglia 1947
4. ↑ Carlo Chiti at the Mille Miglia 1948
5. ↑ The picture shows Nuvolari with co-driver Scapinelli shortly before the start
6. ↑ Nuvolari in the 166 Spyder Cross without left fender in Rome
7. ^ ^{A b} R. M. Clarke: Mille Miglia, The Alfa & Ferrari Years 1927–1951. Brooklands Bocks, Cobham 1998, ISBN 1-85520-467-3 , p. 137.