News Details

Alfa Romeo celebrates history with help from Fangio's sons

Twitter.com / SauberF1Team Silverstone is never short of a sweeping sense of history. After all, it was the place where the very first Formula 1 Grand Prix was held on May 13, 1950. That auspicious event was won by Giuseppe Farina for Alfa Romeo. After a long absence the marque is back in Formula 1 in 2018 as a title sponsor to the Sauber F1 team, and so it was only fitting that they would want to commemorate that moment this weekend. And they did so in style with special guests Oscar and Rubén Fangio, the sons of five-time F1 world champion Juan Manuel Fangio who was Farina's team mate driving a GP Tipo 158 "Alfetta" in that first Grand Prix. They're pictured above in the...
Full Story »
6y ago from F1i.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Sauber Launches Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 eSports Ahead of...

Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team have launched their own eSports team ahead of...

Qualifying 9th was a strong team effort – Leclerc

Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 duo Charles Leclerc and Marcus Ericsson made a...
6y ago from ThisIsF1.com

British Grand Prix: Can the Silverstone crowd restore...

Can the roar of a crowd carry a competitor over the finish line to...
6y ago from BBC.co.uk

Ocon excited to race at "legendary"...

Silverstone is one of the centrepieces of the F1 calendar, there is so...
6y ago from GPBlog.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

'When there's nothing to lose, he's cash money' - Fans...

Arsenal fans via social media have expressed mixed feelings after Martin...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Mikel Arteta makes stance clear on Arsenal transfers...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta pays tribute to Kieran Tierney and discusses...
1h ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Arsenal make 'direct contact' for £146.9m winger as...

Arsenal reportedly add two new wingers to their transfer shortlist for the...
5h ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk joins elite list: Can you...

To mark Liverpool centre-back Virgil van Dijk lifting the Premier League...
2h ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.