- 1939 BMW 328 Mille Miglia coupe wins the vintage event for which it is named.
- Husband and wife team, Giuliano Cane and Lucia Galliani, won for the 10th time.
- The event is the modern-day revival of a 1,000-mile race from Brescia to Rome.
BRESCIA, Italy — Another year's Mille Miglia Storica is history, and the husband-and-wife team of Giuliano Cane and Lucia Galliani have sealed their 10th win of the vintage-car event. The Italians were on board a 1939 BMW 328 Mille Miglia coupe, appropriately enough. They held the lead for the duration of the tour.
The event is the modern-day revival of a 1,000-mile race from Brescia to Rome and back that took place from 1927 through 1957 and was stopped after a tragic accident in the 1957 edition that killed driver Alfonso de Portago, navigator Edmund Nelson, and several spectators. The modern event, which restarted in 1977, is for 375 cars built during the years in which the original event took place and is as much a lap of honor for the classic racers of the past as a competition.
Everyone from Italian government ministers — the foreign and environment ministers, together in a 1929 Alfa Romeo Giulietta this year — to celebrities and wealthy collectors has been known to participate.
Second place in the 2010 event went to Luciano Viaro and Mark Gessler in an Alfa Romeo 6C 1500, a team that had previously won the Mille Miglia three times. Third place was taken by Enzo Ciravolo and Maria Leitner in a 1937 BMW 328.
Inside Line says: Bragging rights to BMW and the marque's many adherents this year. — Laura Sky Brown, Correspondent
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