Report from Mille Miglia

At 20h30 Thursday night this year’s Mille Miglia started in Brecia, Italy. About one hour later both Jan Åke Jonsson and Victor Muller and their co-drivers, the sons Christian respectively Olivier, were on their way on the 350 kilometer long lap to Bologna.

Apart from a problem with the generator on Victor Muller’s car, that was fixed during the night, both the Saab 93’s are running well in this classic rally. Today they are driving from Bologna to Rome and tomorrow the route is Rome-Brecia.
The fact that both the CEO and the Chairman of the Board are attending this rally,gets some attention and they have already been interviewed by i.e Auto Motor & Sport.

Mille Miglia is a big crowd-puller. Famous cars and famous people add the rally zest to the competition and along the roads a lot of people are gathering in big crowds to enjoy classic cars, the atmosphere, the excitement as well as the food and drinks they bring with them.

It is a popular festival that has spectators from all over the world. No one wants to miss Mille Miglia. The big interest for this event is obvious when looking at the numbers of cars applying for taking part in the rally: 1400! Only 375 cars and drivers were selected and among them the two Saab 93’s driven by Muller and Jonsson.

Follow the race at http://www.millemiglia.it/

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Comments (6) TAGS Jan-Åke / Trollhättan

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WooDz

All the best for SAAB's Top Boys and their engineering team
Looking forward to Day 2 edition.

# 1

May 7, 2010
Quijote

Pure Magic!

# 2

May 7, 2010
Smith

This is very special, two tenacious saviors racing in the name of Saab!

# 3

May 7, 2010
Ken

I hope there'll be plenty of pics ;?

# 4

May 8, 2010
Glenn Maretti

Go for it, boys!

# 5

May 8, 2010
Rachel

Wow - fantastic publicity and it proves the great commitment from VM & JAJ.

# 6

May 10, 2010