1957 Mille Miglia

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The 24. edizione Mille Miglia (Italian for "One Thousand Miles") was an auto race held on a course totalling 992.332 miles (1,597.004 km), made up entirely of public roads around Italy, mostly on the outer parts of the country on 11–12 May 1957. The route was based on a round trip in northern Italy, starting in Brescia, following the Adriatic Sea coast, crossing mountains to Rome, and returning via mountains passes to Brescia. It was the 3rd round of the 1957 World Sportscar Championship season. It was the last edition of the Mille Miglia as a flat out race as the Ferrari of Alfonso de Portago and Edmund G Nelson killed nine spectators near the road, among them five children. Including the unrelated fatal crash of Josef H. Göttgens, twelve persons died during the race, leading the Italian government to immediately end the Mille Miglia and banning all motor racing on the public roads of Italy, which also affected the Targa Florio of that year. As in previous years, the event was a race...

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