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Six issues in regards to the first F1 world championship of 1950
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Six issues in regards to the first F1 world championship of 1950

Motorsports March 10, 2025
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This 12 months marks the seventy fifth anniversary of the very first Components One world championship in 1950 which featured seven races and was gained by the Italian Giuseppe Farina.

AFP Sport picks out six issues to find out about that first summer time of pace.

– Origins –

Grand Prix racing dates again a lot additional than 1950, nearly to the second that the primary vehicles appeared on the street. In reality the primary recorded race passed off in 1894 when Rely Jules-Albert de Dion gained the 126km Paris–Rouen rally at a median pace of 19kph (12mph).

The primary closed-circuit race got here in 1903 in Athy, Eire and the primary race to hold the label of Grand Prix is assumed to have been at Le Mans in 1906 – though some vouch for Pau in 1901.

A producers’ championship passed off within the Nineteen Twenties nevertheless it was solely after World Battle Two and the emergence of the FIA as the brand new governing physique that the brand new competitors would start.

– Programme –

The earlier three years had seen quite a lot of one-off Components One races with no total competitors. That modified with the 1950 championship which comprised six races in Europe – Britain, Monaco, Switzerland, Belgium, France and Italy – and one within the US.

The Indianapolis race was successfully a stand-alone because it passed off one week after Monaco and not one of the European racers took half.

The European races concerned 4 works groups – Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati, and Talbot-Lago – and 26 privateers. Mercedes solely joined the championship in 1954.

– Champion Farina –

Historical past remembers properly the exploits of Juan Manuel Fangio for his 5 world titles however this inaugural season belonged to his Alfa Romeo teammate, the Italian Giuseppe ‘Nino’ Farina.

They gained three races every however Turin-born Farina’s fourth place in Belgium gave him the championship with 30 factors to Fangio’s 27.

He gained the primary race in entrance of an estimated 200,000 spectators at Silverstone on Might 13 and secured the title with victory in Monza on September 3.

At 43 he stays the second-oldest champion, behind solely Fangio who was 47 when he took his ultimate title in 1957.

Farina was additionally the primary champion to die when he was killed in a street accident on his approach to the 1966 French Grand Prix the place he was as a consequence of carry out as driving double for Yves Montand within the movie ‘Grand Prix’.

– Monaco pile-up –

Though not as quick as in the present day, the early vehicles have been way more harmful, the primary severe pile-up occurring on the opening lap within the second race at Monaco, when a wave flooded the monitor at Tabac Nook.

Farina, who was second on the time, spun and crashed. Chief Fangio drove clear however eight extra drivers crashed and retired, albeit unharmed.

On the second lap, Jose Froilan Gonzalez crashed his already-damaged Maserati which caught hearth. Solely seven of the 19 starters accomplished the race.

Gonzalez recovered from his burns, happening to win the 1951 British Grand Prix and the 1954 Le Mans, however others competing within the 1950 season weren’t as lucky because the ‘Pampas Bull’.

– Harmful video games –

Lower than two months after driving a Maserati 4CL at Silverstone, Joe Fry was killed on the Blandford hill climb whereas Raymond Sommer, who was fourth in Monaco, died when his automobile overturned throughout a race on the Circuit de Cadours – only one week after he positioned eighth within the Components One season-closer in Monza.

One other 5 of the category of 1950 – Alberto Ascari, Louis Rosier, Man Mairesse, Peter Whitehead and Harry Schell –  would lose their lives in racing accidents whereas David Murray perished in a street accident within the Canary Isles in 1973.

Ascari is the one Italian to win the title for Ferrari and he stays the one driver together with Michael Schumacher to ship back-to-back world titles for ‘Il Cavallino’.

– The Prince –

Components One has attracted its share of wealth and glamour, corresponding to Johnny (the Earl of) Dumfries however few can match the royal bloodline of His Highness Prince Birabongse Bhanudej who completed eighth within the 1950 championship after participating in 4 races.

B. Bira, as he was recognized on the monitor, began auto racing in a Riley Imp in England in 1935, adoping the pale blue and yellow racing colors of Siam.

That is proper, Siam. His paternal grandfather was King Mongkut, loosely portrayed by Yul Brunner within the film ‘The King and I’.

Aged 36 and driving a robust Maserati 4CLT/48, he completed fifth in Monaco and fourth at Bremgarten in Switzerland.

Different characters in that first season included Belgian Jazz trumpeter Jonny Claes and Monegasque Louis Chiron, who was a driver for Marshals Petain and Foch of the French military in the course of the First World Battle.

Born in 1899, Chiron would grow to be the oldest driver ever to have began an F1 race when he got here sixth in Monaco in 1955 on the age of 55.

Luigi Fagiola, in the meantime, was the one driver born within the nineteenth century to win a Grand Prix when he took the chequered flag in France in 1951 on the age of 53.

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