As F1 celebrates 75 years of the World Championship, it’s the right time to take a look at the game’s all-time excellent automobiles. Under, our technical guru Mark Hughes presents the perfect performing machines from every decade, in addition to offering a number of honourable mentions…
Nineteen Fifties – Alfa Romeo Alfetta
The Alfetta was initially designed for the pre-war voiturette (F2) class and was very profitable there from its introduction in 1937. However it got here to full flower post-war as what had been the pre-war voiturette class turned the brand new F1, thereby immediately making the Alfetta a Grand Prix automotive, one which powered the game’s first two World Champion drivers to their titles in 1950 and ’51.
The person behind the creation of the automotive was Enzo Ferrari in his Nineteen Thirties capability as Alfa Romeo’s entrant and advisor. Alfa Romeo designer Gioacchino Colombo created a 1.5-litre supercharged straight-8 engine which was constructed by Alfa, however the automotive into which it was fitted was created at Ferrari’s workshop earlier than Ferrari was a constructor in his personal proper. So, it was ironic that post-war, Enzo Ferrari’s preliminary barrier to success as he tried to ascertain his personal race crew was the formidable Alfetta he’d helped create!
