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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.
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 will embrace history and give the GP Tipo 159 “Alfetta” pole position around the iconic English racetrack to celebrate the first Grand Prix victory in the history of Formula 1 back in 1950. The legendary and splendid looking 159 is an evolution of the 158 that Nino Farina drove to win the first race. The car will lead the drivers’ parade before the British Grand Prix with Alfa Romeo Racing Team driver Kimi Räikkönen at the wheel.
Alfa Romeo won its first Formula 1 race in Silverstone on 13 May 1950. The finish line was crossed by Nino Farina, who would go on to win the world championship in an Alfa Romeo Gran Premio Tipo158. Today, another world champion, Kimi Räikkönen, stars in a video that draws an exciting parallel to celebrate that feat.
2019 1000 Miglia - this year’s edition will be remembered as having further consolidated the historic bond between Alfa Romeo and the “Freccia Rossa” or Red Arrow Race: the highest podium step in Brescia was occupied by the Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 SS from 1928, driven by Giovanni Moceri and Daniele Bonetti, while the Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 SS Zagato driven by the Vesco-Guerini duo came a valiant second. Moceri is the current Italian Champion of Grandi Eventi ACI Sport, and in recent years has won all the major Italian historical regularity competitions: the Mille Miglia, the Targa Florio, the Nuvolari Gran Premio and the Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomite. The car he drove in this year’s competition, with bodywork by Farina, is part of the official FCA Heritage collection, normally on display in the Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese… the same car that won the re-enactment event in 2005, 2007 and 2008. Alfa Romeo was also awarded the Sponsor Team Trophy, thanks to Moceri’s win and the fifth place of the 6C 1750 SS Young driven by Cavalli and Gamberini.
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