L'Emozione della Grande Corsa - 2022

di Roberto Barucco
ON HORSEBACK
OF THE RAINBOW
Mille Miglia is above all a story to evoke magic and memories.
Travel, in the space of one night, with the cheapest time machine
that exists - dreams.
The legend of the Freccia Rossa still lives today by virtue of its
evocative ability. After the collective drunkenness of the eighties
and the “fashion” of vintage cars exhibited like a fur, the space to
dedicate to pure passion has returned. And pure passion, when
it finds concretization in the emuli of “Nivola” and the heroes of
the steering wheel, has in itself the ability to generate dreams.
Illusions, just like those sweet chimeras that an old song with the
flavor of distant times evoked.
The real Mille Miglia, a bit like the first James Bond, has entered
the genetic heritage of Italians. There is all the great heart,
beating to the rhythm of connecting rods balanced by ear and
red-hot pistons, of dawning Italy, daughter of the immediate
post-war and of the victory over the central empires, recently
landed to the pride of nation, in those cars that tear on the Futa
and the Raticosa.
We are in 1927, the magical year of the birth of the Freccia Rossa
and the daredevils of the steering wheel capture the romantic
dreams of beautiful girls and peasants, of doubtful old people,
and youngsters exalted by the youth itself.
The Mille Miglia runs on the white roads of the peninsula and
carries with it the names of the biggest one, first of all the “flying
Mantuan”, with his legendary performance, that way of driving
at times, unmistakable, nervous. He wins, he wins, he wins again.
And he celebrates that triumph of synthesis and movement that
is so deeply rooted and witnessed in futurist painting and posters,
which recite trains and cars and planes that speed. The thousand
possibilities of the technique find their natural location in the
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