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To celebrate the victory of the first GP in the history of F1, which ran at Silverstone on May 13th, 1950, Alfa Romeo brings on the English racetrack the GP Tipo 159 "Alfetta", the evolution of the 158 that Nino Farina drove to win the first race.The car will lead the drivers' parade before the race. Alfa Romeo Racing Team driver Kimi Räikkönen will be at the wheel.The Alfetta, designed in 1938 and equipped with a 1.5-litre straight-8 supercharged engine, won in 1950 11 out of 11 races and Nino Farina become the first F1 World Champion. Even in 1951 Alfa Romeo won the F1 World Championship, with the Alfetta 159 driven by Juan Manuel Fangio.The Alfetta 159 belongs to the FCA Heritage collection and comes from the Museo Storico Alfa Romeo in Arese (Milan, Italy), where is permanently exposed.
The Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN has officially presented the racing car for the 2022 Formula 1 season. After the week-long test drives in camouflage colors on the Grand Prix circuit in Barcelona, the Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42 appeared in the official livery for the first time.The Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42 was developed at the Hinwil team location under the new rules of budget limitation and the new technical regulations. Designed by a team led by Technical Director Jan Monchaux, the race car represents a radical departure from previous design principles. The Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42 pushes the boundaries of the car's new ground-effect underbody, updated aerodynamic package and now 18 inches large low-profile tires. The Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42 is powered by an optimized Ferrari engine.
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 ChinaThe 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 Alfa Romeo on the starting line of the first and of the one-thousandth Grand Prix alike. The Alfa Romeo 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, Alfa Romeo 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 Alfa Romeo 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.
Formula 1 returns to the Nürburgring after an absence of seven years as part of this unusual 2020 calendar. The Eifel Grand Prix is the eleventh round of the season, named after the mountainous region between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, close to the Belgium-Luxembourg border. The Eifel is home to the track which hosted the German GP up to 1976 on the long version of the circuit. At almost 23 kilometres long, the hellish Nordschleife was abandoned after Niki Lauda’s accident on 1 August 1976 on lap 2 when his Ferrari 312 T2 hit an earth bank after Bergwerk corner. The Austrian was trapped in his car that then caught fire. The Austrian was saved by the prompt intervention of fellow drivers Guy Edwards, Harald Ertl, Brett Lunger and Arturo Merzario who braved the flames to pull the driver out of the cockpit and drag him to safety.GP-Strecke. Racing returned to the Nürburgring in 1984, but at the new track known as GP-Strecke. It is definitely less spectacular than its predecessor and today it is 5.148 km long. It is popular with the drivers and has produced some very exciting racing. Scuderia Ferrari has won here six times, to add to the eight wins on the long track. The current layout features several medium speed turns and long straights which is why the aero level tends to be medium. The track rises and falls in several places, following the undulations of the Eifel region. For example, the first braking point is downhill with a very tight and difficult corner. The track continues downhill to turn 8 when it begins to climb back up, culminating at turn 12. From here it is downhill again for a long semicircular section where it is possible to use the DRS. It then climbs to a chicane before the final corner which has often seen some spectacular passing moves, with the other DRS zone being down the start-finish straight.
Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc talks about the key sections of the Circuit of the Americas, ahead of the 2019 United States Grand Prix: “I really like being in the United States and the city of Austin is amazing. It is just a great location and the atmosphere around the whole event is special, different to what we usually have. The circuit itself is also quite unique. Inspired by parts of some of the most iconic race tracks around the world, it gives us drivers a really nice challenge. With a long straight and a lot of different types of corners, you have to make sure to find the right balance for the car. It is also one of the few tracks to run counter-clockwise, so that mixes things up for us in the cockpit, too.” – Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc said.
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