Recreating Stirling Moss's 1955 Mille Miglia Victory -- It's Not the Car #5
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Sixty-nine years ago, two Englishmen entered an open-road race known for killing people. Ten hours later, they had seen nearly 1000 miles of Italian mountains and farmland, left fourth-gear jumps four wheels up, and spent countless miles at 170 mph. All in a car with no safety belts, no roof, and an engine borrowed from Formula 1.
And they won.
What does that look like through a modern lens besides . . . absolutely bonkers?
This show’s format rotates weekly, because squirrel. This episode is our monthly deep dive into an epic moment from racing’s past-in this case, the 1955 Mille Miglia and Stirling Moss’s legendary, record-breaking win for Mercedes-Benz.
Related (Italian) Trivia: Ross drove Ferrari prototypes in IMSA in the 1990s. Jeff engineered those cars in the same era. Sam once got lost in Maranello while trying to find a store that sold Haribo, but then he downed three espressos and everything turned out okay.
This episode was produced by Mike Perlman.
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It’s Not the Car is a podcast about people, motorsport, and how we all work under pressure. In other words, we tell racing stories and leave out the boring parts.
Ross Bentley is a former IndyCar driver and an internationally renowned performance coach and author. Jeff Braun is a championship-winning race engineer. Sam Smith is an award-winning journalist and a former executive editor of Road & Track magazine. Together, we explore the emotion at the heart of the machine.
We don’t love racing for the nuts and bolts-we love it for what it asks of the bag of meat at the wheel.
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