Nationality: Italy
Date of Birth: 1906
Drivers championships: 1966
Grand Prix victories: 5
TeamsFerrari 1952 - 1955
Alfa Romeo 1950 - 1951
Giuseppe Farina won both the first Formula One World Championship and it first race. He had success pre-war driving Alfa Romeos. He drove a privately entered Maserarti in races after the war, before getting a drive with Alfa Romeo in the inaugaral 1950 world championship. In 1951 he was outraced 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 Results
Year Team PointsPosition
1955 Ferrari 5
1954 Ferrari 8
1953 Ferrari 3
1952 Ferrari 2
1951 Alfa Romeo 4
1950 Alfa Romeo 30 1