Alfa Romeo has a long and storied history at the Mille Miglia. Named after the thousand-mile route from Brescia to Rome and back, the original incarnation of the MM raced for the first time in 1927 then climaxed in 1957. Two fatal crashes prompted its discontinuation, yet the legacy soldiers on.

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