BMW News

    This year, the BMW Group Classic entered the 75th edition of the classic Mille Miglia event. Nine cars started  the 1000-mile competition, a rare occasion for a BMW fanatic to see such a gathering.

    Back in 1938, the teams competing in the BMW 328 swept the top places in the 2-liter category. Two years on, overall victory followed, courtesy of the BMW 328 Mille Miglia Touring Coupé  (though the rest of Europe was unavailable, as auto manufacturers were busy building tanks and airplanes to fight  WW2).

    BMW Group Classic is fielding the following teams in the 2013 Mille Miglia:

    • 102      Tim Abbott / Colin Montgomerie, BMW 328 Berlin-Rome Touring Roadster
    • 105      Hans-Joachim Bender / Peter Mülder, BMW 328
    • 116      Reiner Feurer / Ralph Körfgen, BMW 328 MM Roadster
    • 118      Hanns Werner Wirth / Christian Geistdörfer, BMW 328 Mille Miglia Touring Coupé
    • 121      Franz Jung / Achille D’Avanzo, BMW 328
    • 126      Nicolas Peter / Pascal Grizot, BMW 328
    • 128      Frank B. Meyer / Moritz Müller, BMW 328
    • 129      Babette Albrecht / Florian Zimmermann, BMW 328 Kamm Coupé
    • 137      Erich Ebner von Eschenbach / Oliver Bäte, BMW 328

    From its traditional start point in the north Italian city of Brescia, this year’s route again covers some 1,000 miles that take in Ferrara and San Marino before heading to Rome, then returning to Brescia via Siena, Florence and Bologna. The first cars set off in the early evening of 16 May and are expected to arrive at the finish during the night of Saturday, 18 May.––Paul Duchene