The was a
Formula One race held on
June 18 , 1950 at
Spa-Francorchamps . It was the fifth round of the
1950 Formula One Season .
The 1950 Belgian Grand Prix was beginning to tell with only 14 cars arriving at Spa circuit. These included the dominant
Alfa Romeo 's of
Nino Farina ,
Juan Manuel Fangio and
Luigi Fagioli .
Ferrari was down to two 125's for
Luigi Villoresi and
Alberto Ascari , although Ascari had a new V12 engine to try out. The factory
Talbot-Lago team had three cars for
Louis Rosier ,
Yves Giraud-Cabantous and
Philippe Étancelin (standing in for the injured
Eugène Martin ). The rest of the field was made up of Talbot-Lagos (notably one for
Raymond Sommer ), a single
Alta and one
Maserati for
Toni Branca .
Farina and Fangio were fastest as usual in qualifying with Fagioli unable to match them. Sommer split the Ferraris in his old Talbot-Lago. The race would be a similar story. The Alfa's went off on their own and Sommer battled with the two Ferrari's. When the Alfa stopped for fuel Sommer found himself in the unlikely position of being race leader. Unfortunately his engine blew up. Ascari took the lead but he had to stop for fuel and that meant that the Alfas went ahead again with Fangio leading farina and Fagioli. Farina suffered transmission trouble in the closing laps and dropped to fourth behind the best of the surviving Talbot-Lagos being driven by Rosier. Ascari finished fifth.
- 14 competing, 14 qualified for race, 10 classified.
- 28 not assigned.
- ''' – 4'37.0
- Nino Farina – 4'34.1
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- --- Juan Manuel Fangio (laps 1-6, 20-35)
- --- Nino Farina (laps 7-11, 18-19)
- --- Luigi Fagioli (lap 12)
- --- Raymond Sommer (laps 13-17)
