My first Mille Miglia was in 1955, the year Sir Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson amazed everyone by recording an average speed of nearly 100 mph for the 1000 miles of open-road racing. Their car, of ...

The key is that there are fewer people on the road and virtually no commercial vehicles; there's simply more space and less ...

The Mille Miglia is the only race that ever frightened him, Stirling Moss says. “I was frightened because I knew I didn’t know the circuit. A thousand miles; there’s no way you can learn it...” So he ...

We know that Mercedes used the SLR 722 badge on the SLR McLaren 722 Edition to honor the 1955 Mille Miglia-winning Mercedes-Benz 300SLR of Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson, but still. That car, ...

Motor-sport folklore doesn’t get much more folkloric than the tale of Denis Jenkinson’s and Stirling Moss’s victory in the Mille Miglia of 1955. This hairy—OK, lethal—road race began and ended in the ...

Even in an era when autosport was frighteningly dangerous, the Mille Miglia was known to be a particularly perilous race. But in 1955, Sir Stirling Moss—along with embedded journalist Denis ...

Mercedes-Benz is celebrating this year the 60th anniversary of its historic win in the 1955 Mille Miglia, where Sir Stirling Moss and co-driver Denis Jenkinson heroically crossed the finish line in ...

The term "legend" is an overused one these days. But Stirling Moss is the real deal. Moss was Britain's superstar racing driver of the 1950s and early 1960s. He won 212 of the 529 races he started, ...

“The Mille Miglia was the only race that really frightened me, at least until the moment the flag fell” Sir Stirling Moss told us in 2015, on the 60th anniversary of undoubtedly one of the greatest ...

One of the finest examples of motorsport journalism ever written was by ex-world sidecar champion and editor of Motor Sport magazine, Denis Jenkinson, describing his winning car ride with Stirling ...

In 1955 Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson won the Mille Miglia, one of the toughest races in the calendar.This play is about the two men, and the qualities and preparation that went into that victory.

Our team in Paris just sent us some live shots of the updated Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. As we reported back in July when it was announced, this is a more powerful and sportier variant of the SLR ...