In 1988, Chopard supported the famous Mille Miglia race for the first time and launched the Chopard Mille Miglia collection the same year. Since then the Scheufele family has participated every year in the 1000-mile race from Brescia to Rome and return. This year, 436 competing cars took off from the famous ramp on Viale Venezia in Brescia. All cars constructed between 1927 and 1957 belonging to 61 different brands, are of inestimable value and challenge each other along an ancient and picturesque route, which is precisely a “Thousand Mile” long.
This year again, Karl-Friedrich Scheufele chose to honour Chopard’s partnership with Porsche Motorsport by co-driving with his wife Christine the Porsche 550A Spyder RS, a loan from the Porsche Museum. Albert Carreras, son of the famous tenor José Carreras and friend of Chopard drove the race with his co-pilot Jordi Pascual in a Mercedes Benz 300 SL, owned by the Scheufele family. The Mille Miglia organisation welcomed some famous drivers like the top models David Gandy and Jodie Kidd, Andrea Zagato with his wife Marella Rivolta as well as the legendary pilots Jochen Mass and Hans Herrmann.
The 2015 winning team is composed of Juan Tonconogy and Guillermo Berisso from Argentina who drove a Bugatti T 40 from 1927. The second victory went to Andrea Vesco and Andrea Guerini on a FIAT 514 MM from 1930. And the third team to reach the podium was Ezio Martino Salviato and Caterina Moglia on a Bugatti T 40 from 1928.
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