1950 Italian Grand Prix
Racing data | ||
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7th of 7 races in the 1950 World Automobile Championship | ||
Surname: | XXI Gran Premio d'Italia | |
Date: | 3rd September 1950 | |
Place: | Monza | |
Course: | Monza | |
Length: | 504 km in 80 laps of 6.3 km
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Weather: | warm, sunny | |
Pole position | ||
Driver: | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo |
Time: | 1: 58.6 min | |
Fastest lap | ||
Driver: | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo |
Time: | 2: 00.0 min (lap 7) | |
Podium | ||
First: | Giuseppe Farina | Alfa Romeo |
Second: |
Dorino Serafini / Alberto Ascari |
Ferrari |
Third: | Luigi Fagioli | Alfa Romeo |
The 1950 Italian Grand Prix took place on the Monza circuit on September 3rd and was the seventh and final race of the 1950 World Automobile Championship .
background
In the two months between the French and the Italian Grand Prix, Ferrari was able to almost reach the level of the Alfa Romeo with its new model, which had a non-supercharged engine, in Formula 1 races that were not part of the World Cup . However, Villoresi was injured in such a race and was not yet in full force when he was out in Italy. Alfa Romeo entered with two new Tipo 159s for Fangio and Farina .
Before the race, all three Alfa Romeo drivers had the chance to become the first Formula 1 world champion. Since only the four best results of the seven races were counted, Fagioli, who was second before the race, had the worst chances. Since the 24 points he had reached up to then resulted from 4 second places with 6 points each, he could have made up a maximum of 3 points and reached 27 points with a win and the fastest lap. In addition, Fangio should not have achieved any and Farina only a maximum of 4 points (3rd place).
In the event of a win (with the fastest race lap), Farina had to hope that Fangio would be third at most, then he would be world champion. Fangio had to make sure to finish at least second (or third with the fastest race lap) if Farina managed to win, otherwise every result in front of his teammates was enough for him.
training
As had already become apparent in the previous races, Ferrari was almost on par with the Alfa Romeo. Fangio achieved pole position with 1: 58.6 minutes, but Ascari in the Ferrari was only 2 tenths slower. These two were the only ones to break the 2 minute wall. Farina and Sanesi completed the front row.
run
The three Alfa Romeos in row 1 had the best start, but Ascari managed to move up to second place at the end of the first lap. Up to the 14th lap he followed Farina closely, then pushed him out of the lead for two laps. Farina managed to take the lead again, but he was never able to shake off Ascari until his engine failed on lap 22. Fangio, on the other hand, was robbed of almost all title chances by a gearbox damage on lap 24. Although he was able to take over Taruffi's car two laps later and was thus in second place, he also had to retire with Taruffi's car on the 35th lap. In the meantime Ascari had taken over Serafini's car and was able to fight his way back to second place, but this did not change the victory of 45-year-old Farina, who thus became the first world champion in Formula 1 history.
For Raymond Sommer it was the last Grand Prix. A week later he had a fatal accident in a Formula 2 race in France due to a steering defect.
Registration list
classification
Starting grid
Race result
Item | driver | constructor | Round | time | km / h | s. Rd. | guide |
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1. | Giuseppe Farina | Alfa Romeo | 80 | 2: 51: 17.4 | 176.55 | 78 | |
2. | Dorino Serafini | Ferrari | 47 | 2: 52: 36.0 | 175.20 | ||
Alberto Ascari | 33 | ||||||
3. | Luigi Fagioli | Alfa Romeo | 80 | 2: 52: 36.0 | 175.20 | ||
4th | Louis Rosier | Talbot-Lago | 75 | 2: 52: 33.0 | 164.30 | 2: 13.1 | |
5. | Philippe Étancelin | Talbot-Lago | 75 | 2: 53: 00.0 | 163.87 | 2: 13.3 | |
6th | Emmanuel de Graffenried | Maserati | 72 | 2: 51: 53.2 | 158.34 | ||
7th | Peter Whitehead | Ferrari | 72 | 2: 53: 02.8 | 157.29 | ||
DNF | David Murray | Maserati | 56 | transmission | |||
DNF | Cuthbert Harrison | ERA | 51 | engine | |||
DNF | Raymond Summers | Talbot-Lago | 48 | transmission | 2: 10.2 | ||
DNF | Guy Mairesse | Talbot-Lago | 42 | Oil pipe | 2: 22.0 | ||
DNF | Franco Rol | Maserati | 39 | engine | |||
DNF | Pierre Levegh | Talbot-Lago | 29 | transmission | 2: 15.3 | ||
DNF | Piero Taruffi | Alfa Romeo | 25th | handing over | |||
Juan Manuel Fangio | 9 | engine | |||||
DNF | Johnny Claes | Talbot-Lago | 22nd | engine | 2: 19.0 | ||
DNF | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo | 23 | transmission | 2: 00.0 | ||
DNF | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari | 21st | engine | 2 | ||
DNF | Clemente Biondetti | Ferrari | 17th | engine | |||
DNF | Henri Louveau | Talbot-Lago | 16 | Brakes | |||
DNF | Gianfranco Comotti | Maserati | 15th | engine | |||
DNF | Maurice Trintignant | Simca-Gordini | 13 | cooling | |||
DNF | Louis Chiron | Maserati | 13 | handing over | |||
DNF | Consalvo Sanesi | Alfa Romeo | 11 | engine | |||
DNF | Robert Manzon | Simca-Gordini | 7th | transmission | |||
DNF | B. Bira | Maserati | 1 | engine | |||
DNF | Paul Pietsch | Maserati | 0 | engine |
World Cup stand after the race
The first five got 8, 6, 4, 3 and 2 points respectively; there was a point for the fastest lap. Only the four best results from seven races count. *) contains the point for the fastest lap, fields marked in the same color represent pick-up of the vehicle (divided points) and values in brackets are deleted results.
Item | driver | constructor | Points | |||||||
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1. | Giuseppe Farina | Alfa Romeo | 9 * | 9 * | 4 * | 8th | 30th | |||
2. | Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo | 9 * | 8th | 9 * | 1* | 27 | |||
3. | Luigi Fagioli | Alfa Romeo | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | (4) | 24 (30) | ||
4th | Louis Rosier | Talbot | 2 | 4th | 4th | 3 | 13 | |||
5. | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari | 6th | 2 | 3 | 11 | ||||
6th | Johnnie Parsons | Kurti's power | 9 * | 9 | ||||||
7th | Bill Holland | Deidt | 6th | 6th | ||||||
8th. | B.Bira | Maserati | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||||
9. | Reg Parnell | Alfa Romeo | 4th | 4th | ||||||
Louis Chiron | Maserati | 4th | 4th | |||||||
Mauri Rose | Deidt | 4th | 4th | |||||||
Peter Whitehead | Ferrari | 4th | 4th | |||||||
13. | Yves Giraud-Cabantous | Talbot | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Raymond Summers | Ferrari | 3 | 3 | |||||||
Cecil Green | Kurti's power | 3 | 3 | |||||||
Robert Manzon | Gordini | 3 | 3 | |||||||
Dorino Serafini | Ferrari | 3 | 3 | |||||||
19th | Felice Bonetto | Maserati | 2 | 2 | ||||||
20th | Joie Chitwood | Kurti's power | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Tony Bettenhausen | Kurti's power | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Philippe Étancelin | Talbot | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Eugène Chaboud | Talbot | 1 | 1 |
literature
- Lang, Mike; Grand Prix 1950-1965; Haynes Publishing Group, Sparkford Sommerset 1981 (English)