The 24. edizione Mille Miglia 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 between Brescia and Rome, with start/finish in Brescia. It was the 3rd round of the 1957 World Sportscar Championship season.
Official poster.
Enzo Ferrari with Peter Collins shortly before departure
Linda Christian kissing Alfonso de Portago before the latter departed for his last part of the Mille Miglia race. The photo is popularly known as "The Kiss of Death" (Il Bacio della Morte).
Taruffi and von Trips cross the finish line in Brescia on 12 May 1957.
The Mille Miglia was an open-road, motorsport endurance race established in 1927 by the young Counts Francesco Mazzotti and Aymo Maggi. It took place in Italy 24 times from 1927 to 1957.
Some of the founders posing together in Brescia, here pictured in the 1940s. From left to right: Giulio Binda, Aymo Maggi, Filippo Tassara, Giovanni Canestrini and Renzo Castagneto.
Cars in Brescia before departure at 1955 Mille Miglia.
Memorial in Guidizzolo for the nine victims of the fatal crash during the 1957 Mille Miglia.
Image: 1927 03 27 Mille Miglia winner OM 665 Minoia Morandi
