1950 Swiss Grand Prix
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Circuit Bremgarten track layout
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| Date | 4 June 1950 | ||
| Official name | X Großer Preis der Schweiz | ||
| Location | Bremgarten, Bern, Switzerland | ||
| Course | Motorcycle track | ||
| Course length | 7.28 km (4.524 mi) | ||
| Distance | 42 laps, 305.760 km (190.008 mi) | ||
| Weather | Warm, dry and sunny | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Alfa Romeo | ||
| Time | 2:42.1 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nino Farina
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Alfa Romeo | |
| Time | 2:41.6 on lap 8 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |
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Alfa Romeo | |
| Second | Alfa Romeo | ||
| Third | Talbot-Lago-Talbot | ||
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The 1950 Swiss Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 4 June 1950 at Bremgarten. It was race 4 of 7 in the 1950 World Championship of Drivers. The 42-lap race was won by Alfa Romeo driver Nino Farina after he started from second position. His teammate Luigi Fagioli finished second and Talbot-Lago driver Louis Rosier came in third.
The fourth round of the Championship took place just three weeks after the series began at Silverstone (with Monaco and Indianapolis having taken place on consecutive weekends). Once again the event proved to be a battle between the Alfa Romeo factory 158s of Giuseppe Farina, Juan Manuel Fangio and Luigi Fagioli and the Scuderia Ferraris of Alberto Ascari, Luigi Villoresi (who had the latest model with de Dion rear suspension, twin overhead camshaft engine and 4-speed gearbox), Raymond Sommer and Peter Whitehead. There were a number of uncompetitive Talbot-Lagos and Maseratis as usual. José Froilán González was out of action as a result of burns he had received after the first lap accident at Monaco Grand Prix. Also out of action as a result of the crash was Maserati factory driver Franco Rol. This was the last race to be entered by pre-war racer Eugène Martin. It was also the first and only World Championship Grand Prix for Nello Pagani, better known for his exploits in Grand Prix motorcycle racing.
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