1950MotorsportVERIFIED

Scuderia Ferrari Enters the Formula 1 World Championship

21 May 1950

Scuderia Ferrari makes its Formula 1 World Championship debut at Monaco with three supercharged 125 F1 cars for Alberto Ascari, Luigi Villoresi and Raymond Sommer.

A Ferrari 125 Grand Prix car from the marque’s early Formula 1 era.

Unknown author Unknown author — Wikimedia Commons — Public domain

Ferrari 125 Grand Prix machinery from the period in which Scuderia Ferrari entered the Formula 1 World Championship. · Unknown author Unknown author — Wikimedia Commons — Public domain

Automotive significance

Ferrari had skipped the championship’s opening round at Silverstone and entered at Monaco instead. Ascari finished second and Sommer fourth, while Villoresi retired. The result exposed the limits of the supercharged 1.5-litre 125 F1 against Alfa Romeo and accelerated Ferrari’s development of larger naturally aspirated V12 single-seaters during the 1950 season.

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