28 April 1940
Two Auto Avio Costruzioni 815 barchettas start the 1940 Mille Miglia, one for Alberto Ascari and Giovanni Minozzi and the other for Lotario Rangoni Machiavelli and Enrico Nardi. Neither finishes.
Arnaud 25 — Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 3.0Automotive significance
The 815 was not a Ferrari-badged automobile. Its designation referred to an eight-cylinder engine of roughly 1.5 litres, and Touring created the two-seat bodywork. Only two examples were built. Historically, it is best understood as Enzo Ferrari’s pre-marque competition project: an important engineering bridge between his Alfa Romeo years and the first car that would officially carry the Ferrari name in 1947.
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