Automobile World Championship 1950
World Champion | |
Driver: | Giuseppe Farina |
Season dates | |
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Number of races: | 7th |
The automobile world championship in 1950 was the 1st season of the automobile world championship, which today is called the Formula 1 world championship . The drivers' world championship was held within seven races from May 13, 1950 to September 3, 1950. Giuseppe Farina from Team Alfa Romeo became the first Formula 1 world champion ahead of his teammates Juan Manuel Fangio and Luigi Fagioli . A total of 24 races took place worldwide, of which only seven counted for the drivers' world championship. A constructors' world championship was not held until 1958.
The FIA -Ehrentitel Grand Prix of Europe was at the 1950 Grand Prix of Great Britain awarded.
background
In 1947 the FIA developed the new regulations for the highest motor sport class from the technical regulations for pre-war Grand Prix vehicles, and referred to these regulations for the first time as " Formula 1 ". These building regulations defined, among other things, the maximum engine displacement; Engines with a compressor should have 1.5 liters, without a compressor ( naturally aspirated engines ) a maximum of 4.5 liters. Based on these regulations, the FIA started the drivers' world championship in 1950, for the first time with Formula 1 vehicles.
Teams and drivers
In 1950, a total of 49 drivers, divided into eight teams, took part in the races for the world championship. Many private drivers also bought or rented racing cars to take part in races.
Race results
Great Britain / Europe Grand Prix
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Giuseppe Farina | Alfa Romeo | 2: 13: 23.6 |
2 | Luigi Fagioli | Alfa Romeo | + 2.6 |
3 | Reg Parnell | Alfa Romeo | + 52.0 |
PP | Giuseppe Farina | Alfa Romeo | 1: 50.8 |
SR | Giuseppe Farina | Alfa Romeo | 1: 50.6 |
The British Grand Prix (then known as the European Grand Prix ) took place on May 13, 1950 at the Silverstone Circuit and covered a distance of 70 laps (325.430 km).
As is customary in Great Britain, the first race in World Cup history took place on a Saturday, under the eyes of the British King George VI. so as not to disturb the traditional Sunday quiet of the British. The Ferraris had not come and so the superior Alfa Romeos made the race among themselves. Farina and Fangio fought for the lead until the latter was eliminated due to an oil leak. Giuseppe Farina won the first Formula 1 world championship run.
Monaco Grand Prix
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo | 3: 13: 18.7 |
2 | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari | + 1 lap |
3 | Louis Chiron | Maserati | + 2 rounds |
PP | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo | 1: 50.2 |
SR | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo | 1: 51.0 |
The Monaco Grand Prix took place on May 21, 1950 at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo and covered 100 laps (318 km).
Seawater spilled into the tobacco bend led to a mass collision after the first lap in which ten of the 19 cars were eliminated, including Farina . Fangio achieved an undisputed victory, one lap ahead of Alberto Ascari's Ferrari .
Indianapolis 500
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Johnnie Parsons | Kurtis Offenhauser | 2: 46: 55.97 |
2 | Bill Holland | Deidt-Offenhauser | + 1 lap |
3 | Mauri Rose | Deidt-Offenhauser | + 1 lap |
PP | Walt Faulkner | Kurtis Offenhauser | 4: 27.97 (4 rounds) |
SR | Johnnie Parsons | Kurtis Offenhauser | 1: 09.77 |
In the Indianapolis 500 , the US drivers stayed largely to themselves. The European teams saw the race as a deletion. The winner of the race, which was canceled after 138 of 200 laps due to rain, was Johnnie Parsons .
Swiss Grand Prix
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Giuseppe Farina | Alfa Romeo | 2: 02: 53.7 |
2 | Luigi Fagioli | Alfa Romeo | + 0.4 |
3 | Louis Rosier | Talbot-Lago | + 1 lap |
PP | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo | 2: 42.1 |
SR | Giuseppe Farina | Alfa Romeo | 2: 41.6 |
The Swiss Grand Prix took place on June 4, 1950 and went over 42 laps (305.76 km).
In Switzerland, too, nobody could keep up with the Alfa Romeos , and after Fangio was eliminated due to problems with the electrical system, Farina celebrated his second win of the season.
Belgian Grand Prix
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo | 2: 47: 26.0 |
2 | Luigi Fagioli | Alfa Romeo | + 14.0 |
3 | Louis Rosier | Talbot-Lago | + 2: 19.0 |
PP | Giuseppe Farina | Alfa Romeo | 4: 37.0 |
SR | Giuseppe Farina | Alfa Romeo | 4: 34.1 |
The Belgian Grand Prix took place on June 18, 1950 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps and covered 35 laps (494.2 km).
Once again, the Alfa Romeos dominated the action, but during the refueling phase, Raymond Sommer took the lead in the inferior Talbot-Lago . The Italian cars soon caught up with him, but he drove with them before his car suffered an engine failure. Problems with his car pushed Farina back to fourth place and Fangio won.
French Grand Prix
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo | 2: 57: 26.0 |
2 | Luigi Fagioli | Alfa Romeo | + 25.7 |
3 | Peter Whitehead | Ferrari | + 3 rounds |
PP | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo | 2: 30.6 |
SR | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo | 2: 35.6 |
The French Grand Prix took place on July 2, 1950 on the Circuit de Reims-Gueux racing circuit and covered 64 laps (500.16 km).
The Ferrari factory team withdrew its entry and the race was once again a safe affair for Alfa Romeo . After Giuseppe Farina retired with a broken fuel pump, Fangio celebrated his third win of the season ahead of team-mate Luigi Fagioli . The third, Peter Whitehead in a private Ferrari, was already three laps behind.
Italian Grand Prix
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Giuseppe Farina | Alfa Romeo | 2: 15: 17.4 |
2 |
Dorino Serafini Alberto Ascari |
Ferrari | +1: 18.6 |
3 | Luigi Fagioli | Alfa Romeo | +1: 35.6 |
PP | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo | 1: 58.6 |
SR | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo | 2: 00.0 |
The Italian Grand Prix took place on September 3, 1950 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza and covered 80 laps (504 km).
Ferrari appeared with the new 375 V12 and stood up to the Alfa Romeos . Alberto Ascari took over the car of his team-mate Dorino Serafini after a defect , but continued to fight for the lead with Farina . Juan Manuel Fangio was unlucky : his car had a gearbox damage, so he took it over from Piero Taruffi , but after 34 laps he retired again - due to an engine failure. He watched as Giuseppe Farina won the race and thus the world title.
Driver ranking
The following rules for the distribution of points applied to the 1950 World Drivers Championship:
1st place | 8 points |
place 2 | 6 points |
place 3 | 4 points |
4th place | 3 points |
5th place | 2 points |
fastest lap | 1 point |
- Only the best four results from the seven races were counted. Nevertheless, there was only one deletion result ( Fagioli in Monza ).
- It was allowed to change drivers. If this was done, each driver received half the number of points for the place achieved with the vehicle, regardless of how large his share of the total distance was.
Item | driver | constructor | Points | |||||||
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1. | Giuseppe Farina | Alfa Romeo | 1 | DNF | 1 | 4th | 7th | 1 | 30th | |
2. | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo | DNF | 1 | DNF | 1 | 1 | DNF | 27 | |
3. | Luigi Fagioli | Alfa Romeo | 2 | DNF | 2 | 2 | 2 | (3) | 24 (30) | |
4th | Louis Rosier | Lago Talbot | 5 | DNF | 3 | 3 | 6th | 4th | 13 | |
5. | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari | 2 | DNF | 5 | DNF / 2 | 11 | |||
6th | Johnnie Parsons | Kurti's power | 1 | 9 | ||||||
7th | Bill Holland | Deidt | 2 | 6th | ||||||
8th. | B. Bira | Maserati | DNF | 5 | 4th | DNF | 5 | |||
9. | Reg Parnell | Alfa Romeo | 3 | 4th | ||||||
Maserati | DNF | |||||||||
Louis Chiron | Maserati | DNF | 3 | 9 | DNF | DNF | 4th | |||
Mauri Rose | Deidt | 3 | 4th | |||||||
Peter Whitehead | Ferrari | 3 | 4th | |||||||
13. | Yves Giraud-Cabantous | Lago Talbot | 4th | DNF | DNF | 8th | 3 | |||
Raymond Summers | Ferrari | 4th | DNF | 3 | ||||||
Lago Talbot | DNF | DNF | DNF | |||||||
Cecil Green | Kurti's power | 4th | 3 | |||||||
Robert Manzon | Simca-Gordini | DNF | 4th | DNF | 3 | |||||
Dorino Serafini | Ferrari | 2 | 3 | |||||||
Philippe Étancelin | Lago Talbot | 8th | DNF | DNF | DNF | 5 | 5 | 3 | ||
19th | Felice Bonetto | Maserati | 5 | DNF | DNS | 2 | ||||
20th | Joie Chitwood | Kurti's power | 31/5 | 1 | ||||||
Tony Bettenhausen | Kurti's power | 5 | 1 | |||||||
Eugène Chaboud | Lago Talbot | DNF | 5 | 1 | ||||||
- | Frederic Roberts-Gerard | ERA | 6th | 6th | 0 | |||||
- | Toulo de Graffenried | Maserati | DNF | DNF | 6th | 6th | 0 | |||
- | Charles Pozzi | Lago Talbot | 6th | 0 | ||||||
- | Lee Wallard | Moors | 6th | 0 | ||||||
- | Luigi Villoresi | Ferrari | DNF | DNF | 6th | 0 | ||||
- | Cuth Harrison | ERA | 7th | DNF | DNF | 0 | ||||
- | Johnny Claes | Lago Talbot | 11 | 7th | 10 | 8th | DNF | DNF | 0 | |
- | Nello Pagani | Maserati | 7th | 0 | ||||||
- | Pierre Levegh | Lago Talbot | 7th | DNF | DNF | 0 | ||||
- | Walt Faulkner | Kurti's power | 7th | 0 | ||||||
- | George Connor | Lesovsky | 8th | 0 | ||||||
- | Harry Schell | Lago Talbot | 8th | 0 | ||||||
cooper | DNF | |||||||||
- | David Hampshire | Maserati | 9 | DNF | 0 | |||||
- | Geoffrey Crossley | Alta | NC | 9 | 0 | |||||
- | Paul Russo | Nichels | 9 | 0 | ||||||
- | Antonio Branca | Maserati | 11 | 10 | 0 | |||||
- | Brian Shawe-Taylor | Maserati | 10 | 0 | ||||||
- | Joe Fry | Maserati | 10 | 0 | ||||||
- | Pat Flaherty | Kurti's power | 10 | 0 | ||||||
- | Myron Fohr | Marchese | 11 | 0 | ||||||
- | Duane Carter | Stevens | 12 | 0 | ||||||
- | Mack Hellings | Kurti's power | 13 | 0 | ||||||
- | Jack McGrath | Kurti's power | 14th | 0 | ||||||
- | Troy Ruttman | Lesovsky | 15th | 0 | ||||||
- | Gene Hartley | Langley | 16 | 0 | ||||||
- | Jimmy Davies | Ewing | 17th | 0 | ||||||
- | Johnny McDowell | Kurti's power | 18th | 0 | ||||||
- | Walt Brown | Kurti's power | 19th | 0 | ||||||
- | Travis Webb | Maserati | 20th | 0 | ||||||
- | Jerry Hoyt | Kurti's power | 21st | 0 | ||||||
- | Walt Ader | Rae | 22nd | 0 | ||||||
- | United States | Olson | 23 | 0 | ||||||
- | Richard Rathmann | Wetteroth | 24 | 0 | ||||||
- | Henry Banks | Maserati | 25th | 0 | ||||||
- | Bill Schindler | Snowberger | 26th | 0 | ||||||
- | Bayliss Levrett | Adams | 27 | 0 | ||||||
- | Bill Cantrell | Adams | 27 | 0 | ||||||
Kurti's power | DNQ | |||||||||
- | Fred Agabashian | Maserati | 25th | 0 | ||||||
Kurti's power | 28 | |||||||||
- | Jimmy Jackson | Kurti's power | 29 | 0 | ||||||
- | Sam Hanks | Kurti's power | 30th | 0 | ||||||
- | Tony Bettenhausen | Deidt Tuffanelli Derrico | 31 | 0 | ||||||
- | Dick Rathmann | Watson | 32 | 0 | ||||||
- | Duke Dinsmore | Kurti's power | 33 | 0 | ||||||
- | Joe Kelly | Alta | NC | 0 | ||||||
- | Alfredo Piàn | Maserati | DNS | 0 | ||||||
- | Franco Rol | Maserati | DNF | DNF | DNF | 0 | ||||
- | David Murray | Maserati | DNF | DNF | 0 | |||||
- | Eugène Martin | Lago Talbot | DNF | DNF | 0 | |||||
- | José Froilán González | Maserati | DNF | DNF | 0 | |||||
- | Maurice Trintignant | Simca-Gordini | DNF | DNF | 0 | |||||
- | Leslie Johnson | ERA | DNF | 0 | ||||||
- | Peter Walker | ERA | DNF | 0 | ||||||
- | Tony Rolt | ERA | DNF | 0 | ||||||
- | Clemente Biondetti | Ferrari | DNF | 0 | ||||||
- | Consalvo Sanesi | Alfa Romeo | DNF | 0 | ||||||
- | Gianfranco Comotti | Maserati | DNF | 0 | ||||||
- | Guy Mairesse | Lago Talbot | DNF | 0 | ||||||
- | Henri Louveau | Lago Talbot | DNF | 0 | ||||||
- | Paul Pietsch | Maserati | DNF | 0 | ||||||
- | Piero Taruffi | Alfa Romeo | DNF | 0 | ||||||
- | Al Miller | Miller | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Andy Linden | Bromme | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Bill Vukovich | Maserati | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
Rounds | DNQ | |||||||||
- | Billy DeVore | Scopa | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Bob Gregg | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Bob Sweikert | Wetteroth | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Bud rose | Bromme | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Carl Forberg | Miller | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Charles van Acker | Stevens | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Chet Miller | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Chuck Leighton | Cantarano | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Cliff Griffith | Miller | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Cy Marshall | Miller | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Danny Kladis | Maserati | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Dick Frazier | Meyer | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Duke Nalon | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Emil Andres | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | George Fonder | Deidt Tuffanelli Derrico | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | George Lynch | Snowberger | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Hal Cole | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Jim Rigsby | Maserati | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Joe James | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
Willow | DNQ | |||||||||
- | Joel Thorne | Thorne | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | John Fedricks | Kupiec | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Johnny Mauro | Alfa Romeo | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Kenny Eaton | Bardazon | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
Kurti's power | DNQ | |||||||||
- | Manuel Ayulo | Maserati | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Mark Light | Meyer | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
Stevens | DNQ | |||||||||
- | Mike Burch | Maserati | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Milt Fankhouser | Stevens | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Norm Houser | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
- | Ralph Pratt | Bardazon | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
Gdula | DNQ | |||||||||
- | Ted Duncan | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 |
Legend | ||
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colour | abbreviation | meaning |
gold | - | victory |
silver | - | 2nd place |
bronze | - | 3rd place |
green | - | Placement in the points |
blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
NC | not classified | |
red | DNQ | did not qualify |
DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
black | DSQ | disqualified |
White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
WD | withdrawn | |
Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
TD | Friday test driver | |
without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
INJ | injured or sick | |
EX | excluded | |
DNA | did not arrive | |
C. | Race canceled | |
no participation in the World Cup | ||
other | P / bold | Pole position |
SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
* | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
|
() | Streak results | |
underlined | Leader in the overall standings |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner J. Haller, Christian Eichenberger, Leopold Wieland: Major rule changes and their consequences, Motorsport aktuell , issue MSA 4/2014, page 4.
- Jump up to the limit - The Formula 1 Chronicle . 2000, p. 17.