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25px Belgium  1950 Belgian Grand Prix
Race details
Race 5 of 7 in the 1950 Formula One season
Spa 1950
Date 18 June 1950
Official name XII Grote Prijs Van Belgie
Location Spa-Francorchamps, Spa, Belgium
Course Permanent racing circuit
14.120 km (8.825 mi)
Distance 35 laps, 494.2 km (308.875 mi)
Weather Warm, dry and sunny
Pole position
Driver 25px Italy Nino Farina Alfa Romeo
Time 4:37:0
Fastest lap
Driver 25px Italy Nino Farina Alfa Romeo
Time 4:34:1
Podium
First 25px Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio Alfa Romeo
Second 25px Italy Luigi Fagioli Alfa Romeo
Third 25px France Louis Rosier Talbot-Lago-Talbot

The 1950 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on June 18, 1950 at Spa-Francorchamps. It was the fifth round of the 1950 World Drivers' Championship.

Report[]

By the time of the Belgian Grand Prix, the pace of the season was beginning to tell, with only 14 cars arriving at the Spa circuit. These included the dominant Alfa Romeos of Nino Farina, Juan Manuel Fangio and Luigi Fagioli. Ferrari was down to two 125s for Luigi Villoresi and Alberto Ascari, although Ascari had a new V12 engine to try out. The factory Talbot-Lago team had three cars for Louis Rosier, Yves Giraud-Cabantous and Philippe Étancelin (standing in for the injured Eugène Martin). The rest of the field was made up of Talbot-Lagos (notably one for Raymond Sommer), a single Alta and one Maserati for Toni Branca.

Farina and Fangio were fastest as usual in qualifying with Fagioli unable to match them. Sommer split the Ferraris in his old Talbot-Lago. The race would be a similar story. The Alfas went off on their own and Sommer battled with the two Ferraris. When the Alfa stopped for fuel, Sommer found himself in the unlikely position of being race leader. Unfortunately his engine blew up. Ascari took the lead but he had to stop for fuel and that meant that the Alfas went ahead again with Fangio leading Farina and Fagioli. Farina suffered transmission trouble in the closing laps and dropped to fourth behind the best of the surviving Talbot-Lagos being driven by Rosier. Ascari finished fifth.

Entries[]

No Driver Entrant Constructor Chassis Engine Tyre
2 25px Italy Luigi Villoresi Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari Ferrari 125 Ferrari V12s P
4 25px Italy Alberto Ascari Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari Ferrari 125 Ferrari V12s P
6 25px France Raymond Sommer Private Talbot-Lago Talbot-Lago T26C Talbot L6 D
8 25px Italy Nino Farina SA Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo 158 Alfa Romeo L8s P
10 25px Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio SA Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo 158 Alfa Romeo L8s P
12 25px Italy Luigi Fagioli SA Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo 158 Alfa Romeo L8s P
14 25px France Louis Rosier Automobiles Talbot
-Darracq SA
Talbot-Lago Talbot-Lago T26C-DA Talbot L6 D
16 25px France Philippe Étancelin Automobiles Talbot
-Darracq SA
Talbot-Lago Talbot-Lago T26C-DA Talbot L6 D
18 25px France Yves Giraud Cabantous Automobiles Talbot
-Darracq SA
Talbot-Lago Talbot-Lago T26C-DA Talbot L6 D
20 25px France Eugène Chaboud Ecurie Lutetia Talbot-Lago Talbot-Lago T26C Talbot L6 D
22 25px France Pierre Levegh Private Talbot-Lago Talbot-Lago T26C Talbot L6 D
24 25px Belgium Johnny Claes Ecurie Belge Talbot-Lago Talbot-Lago T26C Talbot L6 D
26 25px UK Geoff Crossley Private Alta Alta GP Alta L4s D
30 25px Switzerland Toni Branca Private Maserati Maserati 4CL Maserati L4s P

Classification[]

Qualifying[]

Pos No Driver Constructor Lap Gap
1 8 25px Italy Nino Farina Alfa Romeo 4:37 -
2 10 25px Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio Alfa Romeo 4:37 + 0
3 12 25px Italy Luigi Fagioli Alfa Romeo 4:41 + 4
4 2 25px Italy Luigi Villoresi Ferrari 4:47 + 10
5 6 25px France Raymond Sommer Talbot-Lago-Talbot 4:47 + 10
6 16 25px France Philippe Étancelin Talbot-Lago-Talbot 4:49 + 12
7 4 25px Italy Alberto Ascari Ferrari 4:52 + 15
8 14 25px France Louis Rosier Talbot-Lago-Talbot 4:53 + 16
9 18 25px France Yves Giraud Cabantous Talbot-Lago-Talbot 4:56 + 19
10 22 25px France Pierre Levegh Talbot-Lago-Talbot 5:01 + 24
11 20 25px France Eugène Chaboud Talbot-Lago-Talbot 5:13 + 36
12 26 25px UK Geoff Crossley Alta 5:44 + 1:07
13 30 25px Switzerland Toni Branca Maserati 5:45 + 1:08
14 24 25px Belgium Johnny Claes Talbot-Lago-Talbot No time -

Race[]

Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 10 25px Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio Alfa Romeo 35 2:47:26 2 8
2 12 25px Italy Luigi Fagioli Alfa Romeo 35 + 14 3 6
3 14 25px France Louis Rosier Talbot-Lago-Talbot 35 + 2:19 8 4
4 8 25px Italy Nino Farina Alfa Romeo 35 + 4:05 1 4
5 4 25px Italy Alberto Ascari Ferrari 34 + 1 Lap 7 2
6 2 25px Italy Luigi Villoresi Ferrari 33 + 2 Laps 4  
7 22 25px France Pierre Levegh Talbot-Lago-Talbot 33 + 2 Laps 10  
8 24 25px Belgium Johnny Claes Talbot-Lago-Talbot 32 + 3 Laps 14  
9 26 25px UK Geoff Crossley Alta 30 + 5 Laps 12  
10 30 25px Switzerland Toni Branca Maserati 29 + 6 Laps 11  
Ret 20 25px France Eugène Chaboud Talbot-Lago-Talbot 22 Oil Pipe 13  
Ret 6 25px France Raymond Sommer Talbot-Lago-Talbot 20 Oil Pressure 5  
Ret 16 25px France Philippe Étancelin Talbot-Lago-Talbot 15 Overheating 6  
Ret 18 25px France Yves Giraud Cabantous Talbot-Lago-Talbot 2 Oil Pipe 9  

Notes[]

  • Drivers: 14 competing, 14 qualified for race, 10 classified.
  • Numbers: 28 not assigned.
  • Leaders:

Drivers' Championship standings after the race[]

Pos Driver Points
1 25px Italy Nino Farina 22
2 25px Italy Luigi Fagioli 18
3 25px Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio 17
4 25px France Louis Rosier 10
5 25px United States Johnnie Parsons 9
  • Note: Only the top five positions are listed. Only the best 4 results counted towards the Championship.

References[]

Unless otherwise indicated, all race results are taken from "The Official Formula 1 website". http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1950/383/. Retrieved 2007-06-05. 


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