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...Miglia took its annual toll. A French Citroen spun out, smacked into a tree, bounced into a crowd and injured eight people. The driver, Andre Bouchon, was killed and his copilot injured severely. In another accident, a 15-year-old boy was killed when a French Renault went off the road. In all, five were killed, 25 injured, including twelve drivers...
Italy's Mille Miglia, a 1,000-mile race up and over the Apennines from Brescia to Rome and back, is known as the "race of the 7,000 curves." It is one of the most dangerous road races in the world (in 1938, when a driver plowed his car into a crowd and killed 23 people, Mussolini banned the Mille Miglia, and it stayed banned for eight years). This week, as exciting and almost as bloody as ever, the 21st Mille Miglia again brought the world's fastest cars roaring over the mountains...
...crackling curves, France's narrow Rheims course, where a quarter-of-a-million fans congregate, and England's Silverstone and Goodwood courses, where the crowds reach 125,000. Italy has its closed course at Monza and the wide-open public road race of the Mille Miglia, the thousand-miler up and over the Apennines from Brescia to Rome and back, which is watched every July by a million cheering fans...
...major auto races, Nuvolari won 72, could blame most of his defeats on car failure. He took every big European race at least once-the Grand Prix, Le Mans, the Mille Miglia. Superstitious, he liked always to have a hunchback friend nearby when he raced, for good luck. He always wore the same yellow sweater, blue pants and tricolored scarf. Italians said of Nuvolari, as they had long before said of their spellbinding violinist, Paganini. that he had "a pact with the devil." This belief was strongly supported by Nuvolari's chief European rival, Achille Varzi...
...beating the U.S.'s Wilbur Shaw and Mauri Rose, later three-time Indianapolis champions. But time, which Tazio had always flouted, was catching up with him. After World War II, which he spent in Mantua laid low by tuberculosis, he attempted a comeback. Trying for his third Mille Miglia victory in 1948. he was a lonely, ill man. He kept the lead, despite the progressive loss of his Ferrari's bumpers, hood, mudguards and seat cushions. With little more left than its wheels and motor, the tortured car gave up. Nuvolari lost, but not because he "went...