{"id":109668,"date":"2017-12-09T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:54:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:54:11","slug":"first-formula-one-championship-race-1950_9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/first-formula-one-championship-race-1950_9\/","title":{"rendered":"First Formula One Championship race, 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/SgmfFB3Tu_I\/AAAAAAAABbo\/I-x4LDvUZWI\/s1600-h\/farina.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"144\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334970142345640946\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/farina.png\" class=\"wp-image-109669\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 144px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px;\" \/><\/a>Following  the conclusion of hostilities in Europe in 1946, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration  Internationale de l&#8217;Automobile (FIA) standardised the rules of  automobile racing. The FIA tasked their Commission Sportive  Internationale (CSI) with defining Formula A, the premier single-seater  category. By the time of the first drivers championship in 1950, the  name of the category had become Formula One.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the six  European stages of the inaugural Formula One Championship took the title  of Grand Prix, the name used to describe the blue-ribbon motor races  before the Second World war; the Indianapolis 500 was included as a  stage but only U.S. teams and drivers competed there. The first stage  was the British Grand Prix held on 13th May 1950, which involved seventy  laps of the Silverstone Circuit, on the  Northamptonshire\/Buckinghamshire border. The spectators, including King  George VI, watched the Italian Nino Farina win in an Alfa Romeo 158,  known as the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Alfetta<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Farina  went on to win the Drivers Championship after having won three races.  His Argentinian teammate, the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio, came second  having also won three races. Another Alfa Romeo driver, Luigi Fagioli,  came third after finishing in second place in four Grands Prix,  including the British Grand Prix.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the conclusion of hostilities in Europe in 1946, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l&#8217;Automobile (FIA) standardised the rules of automobile racing. The FIA tasked their Commission Sportive Internationale (CSI) with defining Formula A, the premier single-seater category. By the time of the first drivers championship in 1950, the name of the category had become Formula [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}