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GPBlog's Top 50 drivers in 50 days - #28 - Giuseppe Farina

Welcome back to GPBlog.com and our countdown to the Australian Grand Prix. It’s just four weeks until the F1 season gets underway in Melbourne, so it’s time for number 28 on our countdown of the best F1 drivers of all time. Yesterday was all about John Surtees, but today we’re looking at F1’s first race winner and first champion, Giuseppe ‘Nino’ Farina. Farina is perhaps a driver who had his best years as a driver taken away from him due to the second world war. He was 44 when F1 began in 1950, but made the perfect start, taking pole and victory in the very first race at Silverstone after battling Luigi Fagioli and Juan Manuel Fangio. He won the fourth...
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