1950 Belgian Grand Prix

1950 Belgian Grand Prix
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Race details
Date 18 June 1950
Official name Grand Prix Automobile de Belgique
Location Spa-Francorchamps, Spa, Belgium
Course Permanent racing circuit
Course length 14.120 km (8.825 miles)
Distance 35 laps, 494.2 km (308.875 miles)
Weather Warm, dry and sunny
Pole position
Driver Alfa Romeo
Time 4:37.0
Fastest lap
Driver Italy Nino Farina Alfa Romeo
Time 4:34.1 on lap 18[1]
Podium
First Alfa Romeo
Second Alfa Romeo
Third Talbot-Lago-Talbot
Lap leaders

The 1950 Belgian Grand Prix, formally titled the Grand Prix Automobile de Belgique,[2] was a Formula One motor race held on 18 June 1950 at Spa-Francorchamps. It was race five of seven in the 1950 World Championship of Drivers. The 35-lap race was won by Alfa Romeo driver Juan Manuel Fangio after he started from second position. His teammate Luigi Fagioli finished second and Talbot-Lago driver Louis Rosier came in third.

  1. ^ "Belgium 1950 - Best Laps • STATS F1". STATS F1. Archived from the original on 14 August 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  2. ^ Grand Prix Automobile de Belgique. Royal Automobile Club of Belgium. 1950. Retrieved 16 January 2018.