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april 12, 2019 - Alfa Romeo Racing
"Alfa Romeo Racing" celebrates Grand Prix Number 1000 in the History of F1
Alfa Romeo, the winners the first Grand Prix and of the first championship in the history of Formula 1, pays homage to the most important motorsport competition that counts millions of enthusiastic fans worldwide. Race number one thousand will be held on Sunday, April 14 in China
The long and exciting history of Formula 1 began in 1950, when the sport went global with the first "Formula 1 World Championship", which actually was almost exclusively staged on European circuits. The first race was on the bends of Silverstone, the time-honoured location of the Grand Prix of Great Britain and still one of the more important tracks of the circus. It was May 13 sixty-nine years ago and the #automotive world has changed radically since then. Only two factors are the same. The enthusiasm of the public and the presence of #alfaromeo on the starting line of the first and of the one-thousandth Grand Prix alike.
The #alfaromeo #racing team presented four 158 single-seaters driven by Giuseppe "Nino" Farina, Juan Manuel Fangio, Luigi Fagioli and Reg Parnell, the latter as a token of respect towards the host country. The cars won the first four places in the qualifiers and took the entire front row of the grid.
Looking back at those days, #alfaromeo engineer Giuseppe Busso once declared that the real problem for the team of the three "F"s - Farina, Fangio and Fagioli - was to establish the order of the podium. The #alfaromeo 158 delivered a power of 350 hp and touched a top speed of 290 km/h. Nino Farina on that momentous May 13 won the pole position, the fastest lap and the race.
By the end of the championship, the 158 had won six of the seven races valid for the ranking, having deserted the Indianapolis 500 as all of the European manufacturers. #alfaromeo remained undefeated after the first race in the Silverstone GP, winning the first three places in the ranking. Nino Farina was the first champion of the newly formed Formula 1. A success was repeated in following year, when the 159 single-seater won the world title again, this time thanks to champion driver Juan Manuel Fangio.
Since then, the sporting legend of #alfaromeo has been a string of victories and top-three finishes in many international championships, including Formula 1. For the past two seasons, the "biscione" emblem is back and waving on world circuits. After continuous progress and eighth place in the past season that marked the comeback to #racing, this year the new "Alfa Romeo Racing" team will continue bringing the tradition of technical excellence and Italian style, characteristic of the #alfaromeo brand, to the pinnacles of motorsport competitions.
The "Alfa Romeo Racing" team will be lining up Giovinazzi Antonio, eight years since an Italian driver regularly appeared at the wheel of a Formula 1, and 2007 World Champion Kimi Räikkönen, who scored points in the first two races. So continues the legend of the Quadrifoglio, the green cloverleaf emblem that since 1923 has identified the highest performing #alfaromeo models.
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