Giuseppe Farina
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| Born | Emilio Giuseppe Farina 30 October 1906 Turin, Piedmont, Italy |
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| Died | 30 June 1966 (aged 59) Aiguebelle, Savoie, France |
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| Formula One World Championship career | |
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| Active years | 1950–1957 |
| Teams | Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Lancia |
| Entries | 36 (33 starts) |
| Championships | 1 (1950) |
| Wins | 5 |
| Podiums | 20 |
| Career points | 115 1⁄3 (127 1⁄3) |
| Pole positions | 5 |
| Fastest laps | 5 |
| First entry | 1950 British Grand Prix |
| First win | 1950 British Grand Prix |
| Last win | 1953 German Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 1957 Indianapolis 500 |
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| Participating years | 1953 |
| Teams | Scuderia Ferrari |
| Best finish | DISQ |
Dottore Giuseppe Antonio “Nino” Farina (30 October 1906 – 30 June 1966), was an Italian racing driver and was the first official Formula One World Champion, gaining the title in 1950. He was also the Italian Champion in 1937, 1938 and 1939. During his thirty-year racing career he suffered a series of accidents.
Born in Turin, Farina was the son of Giovanni Carlo Farina (1884–1957) who founded the Stabilimenti Farina coachbuilder. Giuseppe began driving a two-cylinder Temperino, at the age of just nine. He became a Doctor of Political Science (although some source say engineering), he also excelled at skiing, football and athletic. He cut short a career as a cavalry officer with the Italian army to fulfil a different ambition: motor racing.
While still a university Farina purchased his first car, a second-hand Alfa Romeo, and ran it in the 1925 Aosta-Gran San Bernardo Hillclimb. While trying to beat his father, he crashed, breaking his shoulder and receiving facial cuts, establishing a trend that continued throughout his crash-prone career. His father finished fourth.
During the 1933 and 1934 seasons Farina returned to the sport, racing Maseratis and Alfa Romeos for Gino Rovere and Scuderia Subalpina, and began a friendship with Italian racing legend Tazio Nuvolari. It was Nuvolari who to some extent, guided Farina’s early career. In 1935, he raced for the factory Maserati team, showing enough promise to impress Enzo Ferrari, who recruited him to drive for Scuderia Ferrari, the team that ran the works-supported Alfa Romeos. It was in an Alfa Romeo 8C that he finished second in the Mille Miglia, after driving through the night without lights. He made mistakes aplenty, but kept coming back for more and became a Grand Prix winner, when he won the 1937 Grand Prix of Naples.
Although he was noted for his driving style and intelligence, he had a petulant streak and disregard for his fellow competitors whilst on the race track. He was involved in two fatal accidents. The first was during the 1936 Grand Prix de Deauville, when he tried to pass Marcel Lehoux for second. Farina’s Alfa Romeo 8C collided with Lehoux’s ERA, causing the ERA to overturn and catch fire. Lehoux was thrown out, received a fractured skull and died in hospital, while Farina escaped with minor injuries. Two seasons later, during the 1938 Gran Premio di Tripoli, László Hartmann's Maserati 4CM cut a corner in front of Farina. The cars to collided and overturned. Farina survived without major injuries, but Hartmann died the following day.
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