Ferrari 166 Uovo – Car Profiles
Horribly Beautiful – the Ferrari 166/212 Uovo At the Mille Miglia
The story of the Mille Miglia begins in 1921 when the Auto Club di Brescia organized the first Italian Grand Prix. Seeing the success of this race the much larger Automobile Club of Milan built the Autodromo Nazionale Monza and had the 1922 Italian Grand Prix held on their new course. This outraged the people of Brescia but it was not until 1926 when Aymo Maggi conceived the idea of a road race for sports cars that they were able to exact some measure of revenge.
This race run over a 1000-mile course of closed public roads traveled from Brescia to Rome and back again. These were one thousand sometimes desperate miles lined with cheering crowds just inches from the cars such that horns would blare, lights would flash and even an occasional twitch of the car’s rear end was required to convince the gathered throng to make way.
