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Ferrari’s first 125 ran under its own power on March 12, 1947. In early May, it raced in Piacenza, where it did not finish. Two weeks later in Rome, Franco Cortese’s win started the legend that became Ferrari.“I had to be ruthless in order to pull the 125 through its childhood illnesses, which were neither few, nor insignificant,” wrote Giuseppe Busso in Ferrari Tipo 166. Busso was a talented technician who took over briefly for Colombo in early 1946.The road to making his first cars was not an easy one for Enzo Ferrari. World War II had devastated Italy’s infrastructure, material shortages were the rule, and political turmoil kept much of the country on edge.(read more....)