When it comes to road races, few have the allure of Italy’s legendary Mille Miglia, and it’s hard to think of a better car in which to drive the route than the Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster.
The Greatest Drives on Earth: Mille Miglia: by Richard Bremner, with photography by Barry Hayden
It's almost impossible to imagine how differently the Mille Miglia would have been viewed if you'd been an Italian watching it tear through your village in the early 1930s. And not just because the race was for real back then, rather than today's excitingly indulgent time-trial nostalgia-fest.