Mille Miglia 2013: Bugatti to compete with one of the most successful racing cars of all time, the Type 35

Molsheim/Brescia, 14 May 2013 – This year Bugatti is sending two automobile icons to the 36th Mille Miglia, the most famous vintage car rally in the world. The star of the show is a Bugatti Type 35, one of the most successful racing cars in automotive history. Dr Wolfgang Schreiber, president of Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S, will be behind the factory car’s wheel. The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse, the latest model from the legendary French brand, will also start, though not compete. The Mille Miglia runs from 16-19 May 2013.
The Mille Miglia – the thousand-mile rally from Brescia to Rome and back – is a ‘must-attend’ historical driving event for car enthusiasts across the world. Bugatti is no exception. The luxury French brand with a proud and long history is participating in Mille Miglia 2013 with two automobile icons. Representing Bugatti’s fine racing pedigree, a Type 35T from 1926 – Grand Prix racing car par excellence – will line up on the starting grid. The 35T is a version of the Type 35, one of the most successful racing cars in automotive history, having clocked up over 2,000 victories.
The Type 35T draws its 120 PS from a 2.3 litre, straight-eight engine. Its 750 kilogrammes are distributed perfectly across the axles (50 to 50 per cent), giving the car incredible manoeuvrability. As a representative of the Bugatti brand, which hails from and is still headquartered in Molsheim, Alsace, the Type 35T will enter the race in blue racing livery, as all French racing cars once were.
This jewel of a car with an incredible past will be accompanied by a modern day icon: the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse. The Vitesse, which is also manufactured in Molsheim, is powered by an 8-litre W16 engine. It boasts some impressive statistics: 1,200 PS, 1,500 Nm of torque and exhilarating acceleration of 0 to 100 km/h in 2.6 seconds. With the top down, it reaches a top speed of 410 km/h, which makes it the fastest production roadster in the world. Recently, the Vitesse also broke the world record for open-top driving with a top speed of 408 km/h. To match the Type 35, the Vitesse appearing at the Mille Miglia is also blue. The upper bodywork consists of blue clear-coated carbon fibre, while the lower part is in “Light Blue Sport”.
This year, the Mille Miglia is being held for the 36th time since 1977, as a tribute to the former legendary motor race. From its début in 1927 to its temporary closure in 1957, the Mille Miglia was considered one of the longest and most challenging races in the world. Although today it is organised as a moderate and safe drive, it is by no means a Sunday outing for vintage car lovers. The three-day, multi-stage rally places considerable demands on driver and vintage car alike. The race runs over 1,000 miles from its start in Brescia, Northern Italy, passes cities such as Verona, Ferrara, San Marino and Rome, and returns via Siena, Florence and Cremona, cheered on by hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts at the roadside along the way. The rules stipulate that only cars that took part in the original Italian classic race and are still in their original condition may participate in the competition.
The Mille Miglia runs from 16–19 May 2013. The Bugatti Type 35T will drive with starting number 14.

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neither seems to be on the list of entrants ???

Mille Miglia (I), May 16-19, 2013
http://www.1000miglia.eu/2013-Edition/

#11 T35A Course Imitation "Tecla" 1925 (4651) ZA 384 WC (I), Guiseppe Brevini / Franca Tazzioli (I) 74 th
#12 T35A Course Imitation "Tecla" 1926 (4757) BF 5641 (GB), Luigi Carlini (CH) / Raymond Jennings (UK) 64th
#13 T37 Sport 1927 (37237) DA-CZ 26H (D), Giuliano Ganè (I)/Klaus Peter Reichle (D) 8th
#14 T35T Grand Prix 1926 ('37178') 23 AAW (GB), Wolfgang Schreiber (F) / Bernhard Robert Ostmann (D), 101th
#21 T35A Course Imitation "Tecla" 1925 (4538) AND.690 (B), BD-634NH (I), Giulio Felloni / Riccardo Felloni (I), 25th
#22 T35A Course Imitation "Tecla" 1927 (4883) DI-B 35H (D), Wolfgang Kurth / Jürgen Branse (D), DNF
#23 T37 Sport ('37232'-1) ZA-238 SG (I), Bruno Ferrari / Carlo Ferrari (I) 5th
#26 T35 Grand Prix 1925 (4610) KPF 3 (GB), Giacomo Foglia (CH)/ A. Barbiano di Belgiojoso (I) 17th
#28 T40A road. 1931 (40912) BS-D87021 (I), Ivanno Frascari / Luciano Teneggi (I), 339th
#33 T37 Sport 1926 (37206) RO-855 S (I), #33 Mille Miglia 2013, Giancarlo Giacomello / Luigino Gennaro (I) 7th
#37 T37A Sport ('37314'-1) 322 (GBG), Frederica Kirkpatrick / Simon Kirkpatrick (GB), 33th
#39 T13 Brescia 1920 (981) BF 6224 (I), Pier Angelo Masselli (I) / Savina Confaloni (I), 340th
#40 T37A Sport 1927 (37298) YX 7332 (GB), ZH-6995 (CH), Oskar Meier / Katerina Batouskova (CH), 90th
#44 T35 R Grand Prix 1980 ('4421'-R) EB 1925 (L), Goy Feltes / Felix Feltes (L), 70th
#48 T35A Course Imitation "Tecla" 1926 (4700) BF 5844 (I), Kyoto Takemoto / Junko Takemoto (J), DNF
#49 T40 Grand Sport 1927 (40415) TYH 42 (GB), Juan Tonconogy (RA) / Guillermo Franci Berisso (RA), 1st

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11 - 1925 - Bugatti Type 35 A








12 - 1926 - Bugatti Type 35 A



13 - 1927 - Bugatti Type 37 Sport








14 - 1926 - Bugatti Type 35 T Grand Prix














21 - 1925 - Bugatti Type 35 A








22 - 1927 - Bugatti Type 35 A












23 - 1927 - Bugatti Type 37 Sport






26 - 1925 - Bugatti Type 35



28 - 1931 - Bugatti Type 40 A






33 - 1926 - Bugatti Type 37










37 - 1926 - Bugatti Type 37 A Sport





39 - 1920 - Bugatti Type 13 Brescia












40 - 1927 - Bugatti Type 37 A







44 - 1980 - Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix Replica








48 - 1926 - Bugatti Type 35 A












49 - 1927 - Bugatti Type 40 Grand Sport

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wonderful pictures.Why do some of the T37s have their petrol filler neck so far back from the cockpit?