On the third weekend of April 1950, it was the occasion of the annual Mille Miglia, one-thousand miles from Brescia to Rome and back over closed public roads, to include a ''Gran Turismo Internazionale'' category for the first time: twenty-four GT cars were entered, including [[Alfa Romeo 6C|Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Coupécoupé Touringtouring]], Cisitalia 202B ''berlinetta'' and [[Fiat 1100 (1937)|Fiat 1100 S]] coupé. The field was rounded out by a solitary Fiat-based [[Siata Daina]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.racingsportscars.com/entry/Mille_Miglia-1950-04-23.html|title=Mille Miglia 1950 Entry List |work=Racing Sports Cars |access-date=29 February 2016}}</ref> Alfa Romeo took first place in the ''Gran Turismo'' ''Internazionale'' category (a creditable tenth overall) and also second place in category, followed by three Cisitalias. The overall race winning [[Ferrari 195 S]] was also a ''gran turismo-''-style coupé, but in the over 20002,000 Sportssports car class—in fact a special 166MM/195S ''Berlinetta Le Mans,'', chassis #No. 0026MM, famously driven by [[Gianni Marzotto|Giannino Marzotto]] in a double-breasted suit, "a fitting advertisement for his family's textile business"''.''<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.barchetta.cc/english/All.Ferraris/Detail/0026M.166MM.htm |title=166 MM s/n 0026M |website=barchetta.cc |access-date=2017-05-04}}</ref><ref name=":26" /><ref name=":25">{{cite web|url= http://www.racingsportscars.com/results/Mille_Miglia-1950-04-23.html |title=Mille Miglia 1950 Results |work=Racing Sports Cars |access-date=29 February 2016}}</ref>
