1940 FERRARI 815    


 

      Specifications    

Car type    Race Body design    
Year    1940 Engine design    Alberto Massimino
Make    Auto Avio Engine type    
Model    815 Built by    
Colour ext/int    red Total built    2
Serial number    020 Built in period    xx/xxx/1940

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  xx/xxx/1940
Launch date  
and place   		 xx/xxx/xxxx at .......... Price    
Building date    xx/xxx/xxxx Version    Europe
 Engine  Dimensions
Nr. of cylinders    8 Length    mm
Arrangement    V in .. degrees, Boxer, Line Width    mm
Bore    mm Height    mm
Stroke    mm Wheelbase    mm
Unitary and  
total capacity   		 187.5 cc
 1500 cc		 Track front  
Track rear   		 mm
 mm
Position     Wheels make  
and type   		 
Cilinder block   and head     Wheel size front  
Wheel size rear   		 
 
Compression   ratio    ... : 1 Tyres make  
and type   		 
Max power   output    75 bhp at 5500 rpm Tyre size front  
Tyre size rear   		 
 
Spec. power  
per liter   		 50 bhp/liter Empty weight  
Kerb weight   		 652.5 kg
 kg
Spec. weight  
per bhp   		 8.7 kg/bhp Maximum  
weight   		 kg
Max torque    Nm at ... rpm Engine weight    kg
Max revs  
(red  line)   		 ... rpm Fuel tank    liters
Timing gear    ... valves per cilinder
 SOHC		 Fuel tank   placement    
Fuel feed     Weight distr.  
front / rear   		 ... % / ... %
Lubrication        
Ignition        
Electrical  
system   		     
Cooling system        
Sparkplugs        
Transmission Body and chassis
Wheeldrive     Body frame    
Clutch     Chassis type    
Gearbox     Number of seats    2
Differential     Suspension front    
1st gear ratio    ... : 1 Suspension rear    
2nd gear ratio    ... : 1 Brakes front    
3rd gear ratio    ... : 1 Brake size front    mm
4th gear ratio    ... : 1 Brakes rear    
5th gear ratio    ... : 1 Brake size rear    mm
6th gear ratio    ... : 1 Steering    
7th gear ratio    ... : 1 Hand drive    l
Reverse gear   ratio    ... : 1    
Final drive  
ratio   		 ... : 1    
     Performance    
0-60 mph    ... seconds 0-100 kph    ... seconds
0-100 mph    ... seconds 0-200 kph    ... seconds
1/4 mile    ... seconds 0-1000m    ... seconds
1 mile    ... seconds Fuel   consumption   overall    ... liters/100km
top speed    kph    
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     Race history    
1940 MILLE MIGLIA


 
Type of   championship     Driver(s)    Rangoni/Nardi
Event    Mille Miglia Car number    65
Date(s) event    xx/xxx/1940

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  xx/xxx/1940 Previous races  
& results   		 
Circuit     Sponsors    
Race result    DNF Other suppliers    
     Comments    

This car had no Ferrari logo. It was made by the in 1940 founded the Societa Auto Avio Construzione. Because Enzo wasn't allowed to make cars under his own name for 4 years he couldn't give them the name Ferrari.
2 cars were actually built, a shorttail version and a longtail version. This car is the longtail version.
Enzo ordered Touring to design a berlinetta version also, but that car never became reality.

The 815 is based on the Fiat 1100, built since 1932. Not only the chassis but also the gear box, the rear axle, the wheel suspension and the brakes came from Torino. The body was designed by "La Carrozzeria Touring" in Milano, that had also made one year before the design of the marvellous Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Sport, and was produced in a special alloy of aluminium and magnesium. So it only had a weight of 54 kg. The heart of the 815 is his engine. It's an 8-cylinder with 1.496 ccm and two valves to each cylinder, that Enrico Nardi had developed out of two 4-cylinder-engines by Fiat. 72 HP at 5.000 r.p.m. brought these cars to a maximum speed of 170 km/h.
 
 Both cars took part in the Mille Miglia of the year 1940. The long-back 815 with the chassis number 020 was prepared for the earl Lotario Rangoni Machiavelli, who started with Enrico Nardi. But unfortunatelly this car with start number 65 never saw the finish line. Also the 815/201, driven by Alberto Ascari and his navigator Giovanni Minozzi, was out of the race too early. There were two reasons for the participation in the Mille Miglia: first the special prize of 5.000 Lire (much more worth than today) for the class winner in a Fiat car, and second the sales promotion for the planed production of the 815.
 
 The participation of Italy in the second world war nearly two month after the Mille set an end to the development of the 815 - but these cars were the base of the world-famous "Ferrari" of the Commendatore, which are not only a dream of every school boy.
 
 The car of Machiavelli was destroyed completely in the fifties. But the other one fortunatelly has survived until today. In 1943 Ascari sold this car to EnricoBeltrachini from Milano. The new possessor has had more luck - in 11 races in 1946/47 he reached the second position in the "Coppa Andrea Brezzi" in Torino and five times he was found under the first six ones. On the 7th of november 1947 Alessandro Casiraghi bought this car. He did'nt use the car for competitions and sold it on the 11th of january 1951 to Luciano Rossi for 68.637 Lire. The 815 was in very bad conditions, so Rossi withdrawed the car from circulation. In the sixties Emilio Storchi Fermi, lover of historical cars, discovered this 815. He restored the car for 4 years and saved this rarity from dilapidation.
 
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