Stirling Moss took his famous 1957 Pescara GP victory on this day. Reckon Nürburgring's Nordschleife was the longest track to host a world championship grand prix? Wrong, as David Malsher explains in today's Great Read
Shielding my eyes against the sun, I gaze back along the straight. Stretching to the horizon is a silver-black band of Tarmac spray-gunned with can and shrouded by converging lines of lamp-posts. I do an about-turn and, with the buildings much closer to the road in this direction, I can make out, but only just, the first turn. By some margin, this four-mile haul is the longest straight piece of road I have ever seen.
All round me is traffic bedlam, but it is of a kind one doesn't encounter in a British city, for it is free-flowing. Pescara is inhabited by people who go for gaps. The welcome result? No traffic jams. Drop into their mode of driving and you'll find forward progress inhibited only by traffic-fights. Drive like a Briton and you can guarantee you'll be in someone's way...
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