1950 French Grand Prix

The Grand Prix of France 1950 took place on July 2 on the course of Reims, was the sixth race of the Formula 1 season 1950.

Background

For race received 19 nominations. Ferrari did not come with the factory team but was represented only by the privateer Peter Whitehead.

Training

The training on the fast course was dominated by the factory Alfa Romeo. Fangio secured the pole position in front of Farina and Fagioli. The best non- Alfa was almost five seconds slower than the third-placed Alfa of Fagioli.

Race

As had already indicated in training, the Alfa Romeo the top favorites were on the fast track. So they led after the start the box with Farina at the top. However, in the 18th round, he had to drive to get there repair his defective fuel pump the boxes. This cost him about seven minutes. Nevertheless, he managed to push forward again halfway through the race in third place. Shortly after, he again had bad luck and he had to pit again, came back up to third place and had his car finally finally defective fuel pump nine laps to go off on the track. This Peter Whitehead inherited the third place, what should be his only podium in his Formula 1 career. From the defect Farinas benefited primarily Fangio, who won the race unchallenged and also took the lead in the drivers' championship. Due to the high temperatures, the engines were heavily loaded. This meant that all started Maseratis were forced to retire with engine failure and also the Talbots had to constantly refill the cooling water.

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Classification

Line-up

Race results

Standings after the race

The first five were 8, 6, 4, 3, 2 ​​points; one point there was for the fastest lap. There are only the four best results from seven races. *) Contains the point for the fastest lap, the same color marked fields represent vehicle acquisition ( split points) and values ​​in parentheses are void results.