Vídeo: Dueto: Ferrari 166MM e Ferrari 195 Inter

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Tiago, it’s very special to be able to gather here these two examples which are, essentially, representative of the beginning of Ferrari’s history, because essentially Ferrari began 75 years ago, but we can say that the 166 is, truly, the first well-structured car in which aesthetics also play a role and the physical aspect of the car starts being valued, not just the mechanics, as Enzo preferred. And these two bodyworks represent an interesting phase, because on one hand we have Touring creating an emblematic body for the race car and then the 195, a much more civilian version albeit quite raw, I believe, with a Vignale body. I think tat question of both the race and the civilian car is a very important issue, because Ferrari’s DNA is racing. And this was a competition car and as you were saying, it is truly the most important as well, because it won the most races, it was the most developed, most powerful. And this one is truly Ferrari doing something, which it still does today, which is taking its first step into selling private cars to the public, road cars, to then finance their competition efforts. And here we have one of the first, closed, model. I would say the first closed coupé model appeared in ’50, this car is sold in ’51, built in ’50. Here are these two competition milestones, road use, and civilian use. One of the interesting things about this 195 is that it was built by Vignale, and Vignale no longer has the records from that time so in reality, we don’t have any about what the car’s color was, but the gauges have this blue and gray. Which is why recently, we repainted the car in these colors. It’s a car that would be considered a more refined version at the time, but for you, who are familiar with the car, it’s still very raw, very much a race car. Yes, it has a short gearbox, very quick, you have to shift gears well. They’re still very primitive cars, very raw, with short gearboxes, you have to know how to do double clutching well, how to adapt the engine speed to avoid grinding the gears, weak brakes, and a lousy chassis. A chassis, as they say, in an H shape, doesn’t handle curves very well, doesn’t have a very efficient suspension, but these are cars that really, because of all that challenge, provide immense driving pleasure. That’s what I felt with the 166 MM, given that the MM, as we know, stands for Mille Miglia, because of the victories Ferrari achieved before the 166. All of that gives a very special meaning to the machine. Of course, we feel that it’s very raw, even as a race car it’s a challenging car, with its added fragilities from the 70 years of existence of this machine, but just for the historical significance it holds and for being the first to arrive in Portugal of the two first examples, it is indeed a very special sensation and all the atmosphere of the cockpit and all the feeling that we receive from a car that is necessarily very physical. I don’t know if you also had that sensation, but when I drove that car the thing that impressed me the most was the power of the engine. I wasn’t expecting it to respond so much and have so much force, so much output. We also have the reality that this car, part of its history, received the engine from the 225 S. I believe that may make some difference in that response, the car has a lot of torque, we climbed the whole mountain always in third gear quite easily and the throttle response almost becomes violent for what we can expect from a machine of this era, but that makes it very fun, of course we’re not even close to the limits of the capability of a machine from the 40s, because fundamentally it’s a car designed in the 40s, but the little it allows us to feel is fantastic. But those who pushed it to the limits had courage. Courage, physical endurance, without a doubt a number of qualities that nowadays we have to admire. Not just today, in fact we push much more to the limits with a modern car, but the feeling of imprecision, of lack of confidence that a car like this transmits, which for the time was "State of the Art", but nowadays it’s impressive how someone could push to the limits for hours and hours with a machine like this.