Silverstone Hosts First F1 Championship Grand Prix

The first race of the newly formed Formula 1 World Championship was staged at the Silverstone airfield circuit in England on May 13th, 1950. The British King and Queen were both present for the momentous occasion, as was a crowd of over 100,000 eager spectators. The two previous Grands Prix held at Silverstone in 1948 and 1949 had been won by Maserati, but Alfa Romeo were the team to beat in 1950. Rodney Walkerley described the inaugural World Championship meeting in The Motor magazine;

"Motor racing in the grand manner came to Britain on Saturday. The long line of pits, the beflagged stands, the blue and gold of the royal box where the Royal Standard floated in the wind, was a spectacle of colour and movement which I found strangely stirring and heartwarming."

Alfa were running their type 158, a pre-war design utilising a 1,500cc twin-supercharged engine. Four examples lined up on the Silverstone grid. Dr Giuseppe Farina was on pole with the other three Alfas alongside. They were driven by Luigi Fagioli, Juan-Manuel Fangio and, for this race, the English driver Reg Parnell.

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