Hi guys, I'm Shmee. Hello to you and welcome back.
And welcome today to Brescia in Italy for the start of the 2018 Mille Miglia.
I'm joining Mercedes-Benz, the Mercedes-Benz Museum
and Mercedes-Benz Classic to drive an iconic 300 SL "Gullwing"
on this legendary route, retracing the steps of Sir Stirling Moss in 1955 from Brescia to Rome and back.
1,000 miles surrounded by 450 incredibly special cars.
Well, the journey gets started today in Brescia.
We've just gone through the final stages of preparation: the sealing of the cars.
But let's head through and check out the "Gullwing" that we're be going to be driving.
One of my favourite things about this event is just how it takes over everywhere it goes,
it's a huge spectacle. Cars lining the streets coming through the crowds.
What an awesome numbers of people turn out to watch the Mille Miglia, every single step of the way.
You have all sorts of different cars that took part from 1927 to 1957. That's the criteria for entry.
Mercedes-Benz have an awesome lineup as well.
Let's get straight there though because I really wanna show you this "Gullwing".
Behind me there are a few SSKs and some of the older cars,
but if you are a fan of the 300 SL, feast your eyes on this lineup.
How special is this? Let's head down to the far end, just walk past all of these from 1955 to 1957.
This is one of the most spectacular stunning lineups I have seen.
This is a special build 190 SL Open Roadster
but the others in this line are all the "Gullwings". There are more cars as well that we can't see quite here.
But coming all way through my startnumber, number 357 at the end of the line.
A traditional specification. What a journey this is going to be. This is probably the classic car of my dreams
and now I get to drive it a 1,000 miles on the Mille Miglia.
As well as the older cars, we also have this display with the Project ONE:
the Mercedes-AMG Hyper Car with the world championship winning Formula 1 engine.
From the past to the future. And behind that a Mercedes-AMG GT R,
will also be joined by my GT R as our support car. We will see that shortly, all prepped for the occasion as well.
But this, along with the new A-Class, is really getting the mood started.
The first cars are on their way through the crowds here,
joined by the police escort and we are joined also by Marc. – Hello.
Marc is designated co-driver and navigator for this adventure. – Yeah. I'm gonna try to keep us on the road,
on time and making sure that I instruct him well.
Going through this complete book. And this is only one day.
I have three more of these and I did preparations yesterday and today.
And all timings. We run through this and what the regularity stages are actually all about later on,
but in a moment, when a few more cars have gone past, we will hop in and go line up.
This then, is the crowd of people from the car park to the start line.
I feel like this is gonna be a very funny journey we have here.
Everybody lining the route.
Good times.
Up ahead of us is the stage, but we are in the first bit of regularity. You have to be here exactly on time.
We can see the clock. We're in tune to that clock with the equipment we have inside the car.
This is where it begins!
Here we go! By the way, I'm wearing my gloves from "The Outlierman"
which are going to stop me getting blisters on the steering wheel.
But this is the start.
Up we go.
To the flag, to the beginning.
And we're officially away on Mille Miglia.
Okay, resetting the trips. Here we go then,
we've been looking at the road book, just to learn the first couple off by heart.
So this is the very start of Mille. Let's go.
And there we have our safety car / support car.
The Mercedes-AMG GT R is gonna be driving with us, for now
it's gonna be following us. There we go, have a look back in the rear view.
Super cool.
Driving in the GT R, then, we have BenzeneBen at the wheel
and we have SebastianTPhotography on the camera in the passenger seat.
But, how cool is this? With these two cars, separated by 60 years.
Both Mercedes-Benz. Completely different eras. He's being noisy and antisocial like you couldn't imagine...
You could not have more things going wrong right now. We obviously didn't get the first regularity test very well,
we're now at the second. But now we're out of battery on the tablet that we are using.
Mark is having a complete panic about absolutely everything.
I'm absolutely loving driving this thing. I'm not gonna lie, it's epic.
Now the big trick here is to plan a bit in advance. So this regularity is broken down into six parts.
They have an average speed and a distance each
that you have to be very precise on. And we know what we're doing.
We've got a system – well, we think we know what we're doing – we've got a system in our ears
fully in the zone, Zen, concentration time.
How're we doing? – 50.
Average 31.
Okay, so average? – 31 on this one. – 31? – 31. – Not 50? – No. 40 seconds.
40 seconds. We are all over the pace here.
35 seconds.
Okay.
30 seconds.
30 seconds to get there. So we've gone a little bit to quick here.
25 seconds.
37.3 average.
Okay, that's about this. Let's see if we can hold that.
If I can hold the average speed it makes this significantly easier
because it means that I don't have to slow down so much at the end.
This is actually so challenging.
40.
35.
8 – 7 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1
And off we go again.
37.69.
35.
Oh, I did it too early.
38.
1 minute.
Speed. 25 seconds left.
Is that the end?
Nice. Nice, nice, nice.
Well, I didn't do very well. – Not too bad. – I had super pressure. I had a whole line of six cars behind me
and you have that guilty feeling of holding everyone back.
Oh boy. This is so much harder than they look, honestly.
So we are going right here. – Yeah, side right. Back on to the route.
Away we go.
What, we're here 10 minutes early? That's not a bad thing.
No, no it's not. – I like how you go back to the calculations there. Whose side is it on?
I guess it's gonna be on my side again. We're going for the final, sixth checkpoint tick of the day.
This is where the 300 SL comes into its own.
Because you can open up the gullwing to hand out the book to get it stamped.
You are not supposed to do this around crowds and people because...
Thank you very much.Very kind. More stuff to put in the back.
Yeah, you don't want to hit anybody with that, but it makes it much easier to lean out, hand it over, you get the point.
So, up we go to the final CT of the day.
Hello. – Ciao.
Thank you very much. – Grazie. Arrivederci.
And here we go. The finishing stage of Day One. Up to the top.
...and the car with the number 357. And it's Tim Burton, with Marc Rutten.
What a day. Off we go there. – A round of applause, please. Tim Burton.
That's so cool.
So, off to park all the cars, have a rest and get ready to do it all again.
I'm bringing from home my cleaning apparatus, it works brilliantly to hold the trunk open and fuel up.
You're a genius. – I even have a light on my head.
Good morning. It's Mille Migila Day Two. We are ready for 14 hours today down towards Rome.
That will be the halfway point.
It's a long, long stint, but it should be a good one. Let's go and get started!
Well, the cool thing's about the start here is: we're behind Kazunori Yamauchi. Mr. Gran Turismo.
To our left is Adrian Sutil, former Formula 1 driver.
We're surrounded by big names, big cars and the whole exitement is quite literally of the charts.
I barely slept and I'm still buzzing to get this day started.
Marc's a little bit more tired than I am. But… what's not to love?
Okay. Slippy in the morning, but we're under way
to get this epicly long journey started.
We got Kazunori in our sights, number 356.
Bit of mechanical sympathy on the morning. So, trip is reset, air is flowing, Marc is on the road book.
Grazie.
Look at this view out to my side, I don't know if you can see that. Wow.
These places this route brings us are so narrow and the GT R behind.
Just look back at how silly that looks coming down through here.
Clearly cars like that were not in their minds when they built these places,
well, in fact, cars didn't really exist at all when they built these places.
We're making our way this way, towards the first time control of the day.
The actual stop point, where we have to be in about 14 minutes and it's a kilometre away.
Buongiorno.
Okay, Marc.
35 kilometres on 22.
On 10.
15.
So, is that the end? – It's the end.
Felt good. I feel like we did both of whose sets of controls very, very, very nicely.
This is what a Mille Miglia check point or lunch stop looks like. Just scattered cars everywhere.
Some beautiful locations as well,
extraordinary scenery that we've been driving through.
The weather is very rapidly going from sunshine to rain,
but I think that's pretty normal. Still feeling sorry for the guys with open cars.
We however, do need to go back in the car, because there is a check point to reach.
What's happening now is that he have to get to our next check point at 18,38. It's currently 18.31.
We have got 2 or 3 kilometres to get there, but what we know from experiences,
that it's gonna be absolute carnage of all different cars.
So there is a bit of time pressure to actually make our check point on time.
You get penalties, if you are one minute too late, one too early, any of that.
So, fingers crossed again, that seems to be the word right now, and I'm talking very fast because I'm panicked.
Let's go. We make this.
This is it. Go, go, go, go, go.
We've got to go.
Okay. We go, we go, we go. This is gonna work. Just. We're gonna make it on 38.
You have to be from 38.00 to 38.59.
Let's get this signed in, let's get this signed off. Let's get the right time stamp.
And we've got it. Done? – Done. – We're back, we're good.
Right, off we go. Straight out of here. Thank you, guys!
That was close. So close.
I tell you what: the GT R coming trough here would have been quality, I would have loved to have seen that.
No power steering, round we go.
As this day comes towards a close, we are about 100 km from Rome.
I'm getting a small taste of what it's like to drive at Mille Miglia, here.
Blasting and pushing the 300 SL.
This is the sheer heaven.
This is the area called Villa Borghese in Roma. The cars are all lining up to go across the finish line of today's stage.
We are running dangerously close to overheating, so I'm actually gonna kill our engine for the moment,
because otherwise this this could go very wrong, very quickly.
Let's switch everything off, sit here and wait and then push the car down the hill.
The stage is set for the finale of Day Two. Up we go.
This is fun.
Shmee150, what do you think of the Mille Miglia? – We're here to see passion and this impulse is so fantastic.
Good morning to you. It's Day Three.
We're departing Rome. I've got the road book to show you through any moment.
Team, how you're doing? – Well. – Not tired at all. – Not tired at all. I think that probably summarizes this.
Because today, Day Three, is even longer than the last ones. So, we have an awfully long stretch,
about 15 hours, but a quick glimpse:
so you can see what exactly the road book looks like and how we're following this.
The distance we've travelled, the distance between each direction, total distance remaining,
and then the various instructions – the tulip graphics that show you where you're heading.
Here we have the timing card, you can see the PCs, the PMs, the CTs, all the different timings.
We work out our own timings as we go through this, just to make sure we get there.
But the good news is... I don't know if all you know this actually... we are ranked number 109.
So far.
Which is not bad. As we started, we got to 125 on Day One, 109 yesterday
out of 440-something actual entrances, which is not bad for first-timers.
So let's see how we can continue this in the next two days.
It's the start. We get our road book. – Thank you. – And away we go. The... oh wait... 28th group.
Cars in theory separated by 20 seconds. Three going per minute.
A warm start on an Italian morning,
There is the GT R, ready to join us.
And off we go.
Where does the path go? It's not a road. I was going to say: Where does the road go?
This must be Viterbo.
Look at this!
I wonder if the GT R can come through that.
Oh my God! – Oh, goodness me!
Even for us it's… it's a squeeze. – Wow! Ok, we're going to have to stop for a second and look backwards.
Not too bad. Then we're going right here.
Oh my God!
It's so amazing that at least a thousand years ago they decided to make the road wide
enough for an AMG GT R. Then we go left.
Oh, heavy steering…
Hello.
How are you? Buongiorno. – Buongiorno, grazie.
Grazie.
You know what I find amazing? – Yeah? – It's how many cameras come out for the GT R behind us.
You see them, we see them coming running, ready to get the shot as Ben goes past.
I'm going to ask you: How was that?
Tight. Just a little scary.
You managed it.
Welcome to Siena. This piazza, this square, is just breathtaking. This is incredible. What a crowd as well.
All the cars rolling through here, the kids. My goodness. What a day this is.
We've got our stamp and how did we go. What a crowd here. Oh, we've got the Mercedes-Benz Mille team.
Ok, this… oh… what does that mean?
Our car was being a little bit jumpy, but fortunately we're right alongside one of the Mercedes-Benz checkpoints.
We stopped here, had some ice cream and we're going to jump in now. Fingers crossed it's good to go.
After another little scare with not quite the right power from the car we think we're back up and running,
but I'm going to let Marc explain what happened.
In Siena, really hot, a lot of hot air. Mixture not being quite well, so the car was just not running fine,
it wasn't a happy bunny. So now with new cold air coming in and being on the move, this really helps.
The car is much better now, but whoo…
We find ourselves in this pickle again. We're in Lucca and we got about 11 minutes to get to our time control.
And before then, we got a PC regularity of six stages. Six very short ones.
Let's see what happens.
Go left. Go, go, go, go, go, go.
That is a massive jam. – Can you get down there? – No, I can't get down there.
Go, go, go.
15.
And we got 3 minutes to spare to get to the CT.
We need to check.
And we have done it. Marc is there. We did it.
This is... really... getting crazy.
What do we have now? The race is the next one. – Yes.
The night has started to fall, but we still got about 2 hours of it to go. Sun disappearing behind the hills.
Since we make our way... oh, a 300 SL going by.
I let him do it, just because it sounds so good. That by the way is Adrian Sutil – legend.
But we've been driving a fair bit together.
Good news: With the results that we have so far, we've improved our ranking
and we're now number 100, which is not all that bad for some first-timers on this rally.
We're actually the second highest 300 SL. The one that is ahead of us is during his 11th Mille Miglia,
so a little bit of experience there.
Our two cars are actually parked side by side
just over there behind me, the red one is the car that is ahead of us.
But let's just take a moment to look around, we're in the Mercedes-Benz garage here in Parma.
So the last night's stop of this event before we get back to Brescia. But just to talk you a little bit through this,
part of the event, Mercedes-Benz, the Mercedes-Benz Classic Collection, the Mercedes-Benz Museum,
owned cars, and also some customer cars that take part with them get serviced, get looked after
and get a little bit of love and attention each evening to make sure that they are all in perfect running order.
So we get back, we have a debrief with our engineer
just to talk about the status of the car and how the day's gone.
You can see all the 300 SLs but also the SSKs and the other cars that are entered.
As part of the team and setup
and then they all get set and ready for the morning when they are out warmed up
and ready to go again which is absolutely brilliant. Anyway, we're number 100 for the moment,
it could go either way but let's attack tomorrow and see what we can do.
It's Day Four. And that means today we're going to be returning back towards Brescia, the last stage.
I've enjoyed doing this every morning but it's time to get back on the roads again.
Today is the final leg – 10 hours back to Brescia but this is going to include going around the Monza F1 circuit,
also the Alfa Romeo test track – two very special places.
The sun is out, let's go, get our route card, and off we go.
Another day, another check point.
We are in Piacenza. This morning is blasting by, thank you very much.
More random things we get at every stop. Support car is cruising through and we will go get our stamp.
Okay then let's get this stamped. Grazie, ciao.
Welcome back, efficiently arranged. – As always. – I love going down these tiny streets.
Yeah, it's amazing. – And the arches. Places where cars are normally bad.
But today the entire country of Italy gets behind this event and turns up to come watch it.
I didn't actually realize it but we're driving through the centre of Milan.
We've got a police escort that is bringing us across every traffic light.
There is a huge line of Mille cars as we go past the trams,
we cause an intense amount of chaos but this is kind of fun.
They wave us on through every junction. The cyclist is making the most of it as well.
Thank you very much, officers.
This is Piazza del Duomo. A famous square in Milan.
Although I don't know if you can see that much of it over to the right past the crowds of people.
Alrighty, time to get the next CT.
Hello. Grazie. – Grazie mille. Arrivederci. – Ciao.
And off we go again just like that.
Massive crowd here coming out at the Piazza. Look at this, this is like tens of thousands.
The crowd is a few people deep.
Endless lines of people. Look at this, this is cool.
The car is again very much at the warm end. It's showing just over 100 degrees on the dial here.
On 15 or so is where it's a problem. So we're a long way short of that. On we go!
We're arriving at the Alfa Romeo museum and this just gives you an idea
of quite how many people come to watch the Mille Miglia.
And how many cars you have around. See, you have the normal Mille cars
but then there's random Porsches, Ferraris, tons of Alfas.
Now we're going through the gate into the track.
... the carabinieri there. Very nice.
Okay, here we go.
Late apex, late apex, late apex.
Now we go: 15.
20.
24.9 km.
Done. – Okay, that was pretty good and quite fun to go around a little part of Alfa's test track.
Super cool. So back out we go.
We're arriving at our final regularity stage. We're at the Monza F1 circuit.
You got the numbers? – Yup. – We do go through the tunnel though.
This is the very famous tunnel entrance to Monza.
I'm kind of sad this is going to be the end but let's nail it, get this one completely correct.
There's a long one and it's normal speed. It's 1 minute, 37 seconds, and 43 seconds, and 9 seconds, a short one.
9 seconds? – 28 seconds, 42 seconds, a 1:01 minute and 26 seconds, a 1:08 and a 48 seconds.
So the 9 second one is going to be fascinating
because that means that I have to be rolling across the line quite fast going into it.
Come on little car, stay alive.
We are literally driving around the Monza... the current Formula 1 track.
It will be really special.
Okay, there we go.
1 minute 25.
27 km/h, 20.
That's it. The end of the regularities.
So the 9 second one I'm afraid I completely messed up.
The others were pretty good. And that was a lap of the Monza Formula 1 track.
It's just town after town after town everywhere you go.
All the pros get out, by the way, he knows what's what.
If you get out you make sure you get the stamp and nothing goes wrong.
So Mark, are you going to get out? – No, I'm not going to get out. – Are you too tired? – I'm too tired.
Here we come.
Hand over the paper. Get the stamp. – Grazie.
Check it. – Ciao. – Grazie. And off we go, camera to you, under the flags.
These towns just keep on giving. And the sunshine here.
I love this. It's so cool.
Fun vibes.
You're completely destroyed, aren't you? – I'm done, I'm dead. – Let's drive back to Rome!
No.
Amazing. Line dancing.
We arrived at the very last CT.
And they are lively in this part of the country. This is great.
Grazie. Ciao.
And we're off.
That's it. The last bit of regularity ever and the final... oh big bump... final sign-off at the very end.
We're rolling in to the final holding area of this 1,000-mile adventure. In fact: It's not that precise.
They take a specific route to bring in nice roads, specific places.
We've driven 1,849 kilometres by the book.
But here we are. Back in Brescia. After an adventure of monumental proportions.
Yeah. – In a nutshell.
I'm completely lively and ready to go again. You're completely wiped out. – I'm wiped out.
I'm sure when the adrenaline is gone from the driving, it will sink in a little bit more.
Driving this car: It's weighty, it's heavy, it's been a complete workout.
The steering, the gearbox. There are things that I've had to be conscious of.
Like the brake feel, the temperature, the car was almost overheating. We had some fuel pump things to play with.
But it's so connected and real. You have to watch for the swing axle, when it pivots up forwards.
But when will I ever get an opportunity again in my life to drive a 1,000 miles with the 300 SL.
Not any time soon. – Not any time too soon.
A huge thanks. To Mercedes-Benz, to the Museum. To the Classic team who've looked after us so long.
Let's go hit the finish line.
What a journey.
What an epic journey! There's no dignified way to get out. Especially when it's been a journey this long.
Look at my shorts – even the steering wheel is making a mark on my shorts. My gloves are completely worn out.
Good. So good. So, so, so good.
This is officially the final moment of the Mille Miglia.
Up we come on to the stage.
And there we have it. We are off.
The end of the Mille Miglia 2018.
Well, there we go. The adventure is over.
A 1,000 miles... just over 1,000 miles driving in the 300 SL.
This has been the trip of a lifetime. The final rankings – well not quite final – but at this stage
proposed final rankings are that we finished 97th, which is really quite exiting.
Better that we could ever have imagined.
So… I think I should wrap it up there. What a trip! I hope you've enjoyed this video.
A huge thanks to everybody who has been involved in making it possible for me
to be able to join this and take part. I'm never going to forget my first full Mille Miglia driving in a car like this.
The 300 SL, the "Gullwing", the iconic car, that I think almost
inspired me to go on to buy the Mercedes-AMG GT R, now that I'm enjoying driving so much.
So farewell for now, car. I should shut it up.
For the last time. We are complete, as the sun sets here in Brescia.
So thanks again, guys, I'll be sure to see you again very soon. Cheers.
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