Freeze Frame: Mille Miglia Road Race, Brescia, Italy, May 3, 1955: Stirling Moss and Navigator Denis Jenkinson Power to Victory

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THOUGH primarily a Grand Prix racer, British legend Stirling Moss also excelled as a sports car driver and recorded his most famous road race victory in Italy's Mille Miglia (Thousand Mile) event, a single road loop circuit which started and finished in Brescia.

Similar to his Mercedes teammates, Moss and his navigator, motor racing journalist Denis Jenkinson, ran a total of six reconnaissance laps beforehand.

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Freeze Frame: Mille Miglia Road Race, Brescia, Italy, May 3, 1955: Stirling Moss and Navigator Denis Jenkinson Power to Victory

This enabled "Jenks" to pioneer the practice of making pace notes, later to become common practi...

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