When was the first F1 race?

1950 The launchLaunch - dual terms...  F1 teams lunch their challenger at the beginning of each season, and drivers launch the car... There's more... of the drivers’ world championship with the first race at the British Grand PrixA Grand Prix is a motorsport series sanctioned by the FIA and held in various countries for a world title.... There's more... at SilverstoneHome of the British Grand Prix having debuted in 1948. In 2022 there are seven teams and three drivers for... There's more... on May 13. It was won by Guiseppe ‘Nino’ Farina.

The first official F1F1 is the pinnacle of open wheel,  single seater car racing and arguably the highest level of any motorsport globally.... There's more... race, a non-championship event at Pau, was held the previous month.

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The ‘Three Fs’ were pre-race favourites

Alfa Romeo’s 158 may have been 13 years old by the time of the first world championship race, but the 1.5-litre supercharged machine was still the car to beat, and that helped the Italian manufacturer sign three of the era’s biggest names: Guiseppe ‘Nino’ Farina, Luigi Fagioli and Juan Manuel Fangio, affectionately known as the ‘Three Fs’.

The trio duly qualified their scarlet cars in the top three gridThe grid is a reference to the starting order of the race is typically determined by qualifying, however, with the... There's more... slots, with British driverOK, so we all know what the driver is, right. I've always liked the description that F1 drivers are like... There's more... Reg Parnell a second down the road in fourth in the final Alfa Romeo'Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN' is the sponsored name of the Sauber Motorsport F1 team. Sauber Motorsport AG is a... There's more... entry. In the race Farina, Fagioli and Fangio predictably ran away from the rest of the fieldThe field is a reference to the full grid of cars, from pole to the backmarkers. Consider it in the... There's more..., which was otherwise made up of a mixture of ageing Maserati’s, ERAs, Talbots and Altas.

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[if IE 9]><![endif] The Alfa Romeos of Luigi Fagioli,'Nino' Farina, and Juan Manuel Fangio at Silverstone for the very first World Championship Grand Prix After 70 laps and nearly two and a quarter hours of racing – during which the leading trio had traded places several times – it was Farina who triumphed, leading fellow Italian Fagioli across the line by 2.6s. But it was Parnell and not Fangio who completed Alfa’s clean sweep of the podiumPodium is the name of the platform that is used for the prizegiving ceremony following the race. Prizes are awarded... There's more... places after the Argentine had been forced into retirement with a broken oil pipe – possibly as a result of clipping a straw bale at Stowe.