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1951 Swiss Grand Prix

Switzerland  1951 Swiss Grand Prix
Race details
Circuit Bremgarten track layout
Circuit Bremgarten track layout
Date 27 May 1951
Official name XI 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 Overcast, rain
Pole position
Driver Alfa Romeo
Time 2:35.9
Fastest lap
Driver Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio Alfa Romeo
Time 2:51.1
Podium
First
  • Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio
Alfa Romeo
Second Ferrari
Third Alfa Romeo

The 1951 Swiss Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Bremgarten on 27 May 1951. It was race 1 of 8 in the 1951 World Championship of Drivers. The race saw the Formula One debut of British driver Stirling Moss.

The Swiss Grand Prix, the first event of the 1951 World Championship due to the absence of Monaco from the calendar, saw the Alfa Romeo team continue their dominance of the previous season. All four of their drivers occupied positions on the front two rows of the grid; the highest non-Alfa qualifier was Ferrari's Luigi Villoresi, who was alongside Fangio and Farina on the front row.

The race took place in the rain, with Fangio initially leading from Farina. Ferrari's Piero Taruffi also challenged for the lead, having started from sixth on the grid. Fangio pitted, handing Nino Farina the lead for the 24th lap of the race. However, Farina's decision not to make a pitstop did not pay off, as Fangio was able to retake the lead on lap 29. Fangio maintained the lead for the remainder of the race, eventually winning by nearly a minute from Taruffi, who had overtaken Farina on the penultimate lap. This was Taruffi's first podium in just his second championship race. The remaining Alfa drivers—Consalvo Sanesi and Toulo de Graffenried—completed the points paying positions, ahead of Ferrari's Alberto Ascari, who competed despite suffering from burns from the previous weekend's Formula 2 race in Genoa. Stirling Moss, driving for HWM, was in seventh, but ran out of fuel on the final lap, therefore yielding the position to Louis Chiron, who was driving a Maserati for Enrico Platé.


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