Nationality: Italy
Date of Birth-Death: 30 October 1906 - 30 June 1966
Drivers championships:
1950
Grand Prix victories: 5
Races started: 33
Pole positions: 5
Teams:
Ferrari 1952 - 1955,
Alfa Romeo 1950 - 1951
Giuseppe Farina career
Giuseppe Farina won both the first Formula One World Championship and its first race. He had success pre-war driving Alfa Romeos. He drove a privately entered Maserati in races after the war, before getting a drive with Alfa Romeo in the inaugural 1950 world championship. In 1951 he was out raced by his team mate Juan Manuel Fangio, and after his move to Ferrari in 1952 he was second to Alberto Ascari. He had a reputation for being arrogant and also for having lots of accidents, and ironically having survived numerous accidents on the race track he was killed in a road accident.
Previous seasons
1955
Team: Ferrari
Position: 5
Points: 10
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 0 He competed in three races in his final season in F1.
1954
Team: Ferrari
Position: 8
Points: 6
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 1 He finished second in the only race he completed, having retired from the other race he started.
1953
Team: Ferrari
Position: 3
Points: 26
Race wins: 1
Pole positions: 0 This was another good season with one race win and three 2nd places.
1952
Team: Ferrari
Position: 2
Points: 24
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 2 A move to Ferrari this season gave him four 2nd places and second in the championship.
1951
Team: Alfa Romeo
Position: 4
Points: 19
Race wins: 1
Pole positions: 0 His second season was less successful with only 1 race win and three 3rd places.
1950
Team: Alfa Romeo
Position: 1
Points: 30
Race wins: 3
Pole positions: 2 Giuseppe Farina won the first race of the the first world championship and also won the first world championship. He won three of the six races.
