BMW has long hailed itself as building “the ultimate driving machine,” and never was that more true than when the company thoroughly dominated the Mille Miglia 70 years ago.
Even now, BMW considers winning the inaugural Gran Premio Brescia dell Mille Miglia its greatest auto racing success. The sleek and sexy BMW 328 racers, with their small but powerful engines and superlative handling, were so wickedly good that BMW scored the overall win, the team win and third, fifth and sixth place.
“The victory in the 1940 Mille Miglia remains a milestone in the history of the BMW brand,” Klaus Draeger, a company board member who oversees R&D, said in a statement heralding the anniversary of the win on April 28.
That success followed nearly five years of hard work.
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