Alfa In Formula 1, The early days of racing history
Many of you might know of this. The Alfa Romeo car company has been involved in Motorsports for decades. In the inaugural 1950 Formula 1 race, Alfa Romeo using a model 158 car with a supercharger driven by Nino Farina took the chequred flag. The next year, in 1951, racing legend Juan Manual Fangio won the race using a Alfetta 159 which was an evolution of the Alfa 158 with a two-stages compressor.
The Alfetta’s engines were extremely powerful for their capacity: in 1951 the 159 engine was producing around 420 bhp (310 kW). Surprisingly, Alfa Romeo involvement in racing was made with a very thin budget, using mostly pre-war technology and material during the two seasons. For instance the team won two championships using only nine pre-war built engine blocks.
After a few years, Alfa moved back into Formula 1, but now as an engine supplier. In 1961 when V8 engines were being used in Formula 1, Alfa was supplying engines to a few teams. Then at the end of the 1960s Alfa developed a new V8 engine and it was tested in a F1 Cooper race car, the T86C F1-3-68 by Lucien Bianchi. Then in 1970 and 1971 Alfa returned to Formula 1 with a V8 race car driven by Alfas long time driver, Andrea de Adamich.
In 1976 Alfa returned to Formula 1 as the engine supplier for the Brabham Formula 1 team. This was Alfa’s all new flat-12 engine designed by Carlo Chiti. The engine produced 510bhp. More was to come from Alfa in the coming years of Formula 1.
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