Fashionable System 1 Followers Would Have Hated The Sport’s First Season 75 Years In the past

The primary race to be run beneath the FIA’s new System 1 World Championship occurred on Could 13, all the best way again in 1950. Whereas the thought of a top-flight formulation for world racing automobiles itself had already existed for years, this was the primary time a proper championship had been assembled for the world’s finest drivers and constructors. The collection consisted of six races in Europe—Silverstone, Monaco, Bremgarten, Spa-Francorchamps, Reims, and Monza—plus the Indianapolis 500. Each championship race (bar Indy, which drew no European entrants) run in 1950 was gained by the Alfa Romeo workforce, with both Nino Farina or Juan Manuel Fangio taking the checkered flag. Maserati, Talbot-Lago, Ferrari, and ERA did not stand an opportunity.

Any time a single workforce manages to win greater than half of the races, F1 followers will write it off because the automobile being a rocket ship and name the season boring. This is not distinctive to F1 both, as the present dominant runs in IndyCar, FIA WEC, and IMSA have followers of these collection saying the racing is washed. No one hates racing greater than race followers, proper? 

On Tuesday, to rejoice the seventy fifth anniversary of the collection, F1 posted a brand new colorized highlights reel of the inaugural 1950 British Grand Prix to its YouTube channel. F1 will not permit me to embed the video right here, so you may need to click on the hyperlink to see it, nevertheless it’s undoubtedly price watching. 

Farina and Fangio gained three rounds every, however by dint of Fangio struggling extra retirements than Farina had, the Drivers standings noticed Farina forward by three factors (due to a fourth-placed end at Spa) at season’s finish. The factors battle got here all the way down to the ultimate spherical at Monza, as Fangio had pole and quickest lap earlier than his gearbox grenaded. 

Whereas the season has gotten for much longer lately, the automobiles are actually quicker, the tracks are safer, and the whole lot in regards to the sport right now prices orders of multitude extra {dollars}, it is good to see that not a lot has modified from 1950 to 2025. It is nonetheless doable for a workforce and driver to execute to the next degree than everybody else, and it is nonetheless doable for F1 followers to decry a dominant constructor. Possible, even.