Race · Round 6 of 7 · 2 July 1950

1950 French Grand Prix

Juan Manuel Fangio won for Alfa Romeo from pole at Reims-Gueux. It was the first championship podium for Peter Whitehead. With this win, Juan Manuel Fangio set a new record of 3 championship Grand Prix wins.

Dry · High of 26 °C, 0.1 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Reims-GueuxGueux, France
Winner: Juan Manuel FangioAlfa Romeo
Pole: Juan Manuel Fangio
Fastest lap: Juan Manuel Fangio
Entries: 1910 classified

This race includes a shared drive. Two drivers took turns in one car and both are classified in the same position, so a position below appears twice. That is correct, not a duplicated row.

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Juan Manuel Fangio	Alfa Romeo	158	1	64	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Luigi Fagioli	Alfa Romeo	158	3	64	Finished	6
3	Peter Whitehead	Ferrari	125	19	61	Finished	4
4	Robert Manzon	Simca-Gordini	T15	13	61	Finished	3
5	Philippe Étancelin shared	Talbot-Lago	—	4	59	Finished	1
5	Eugène Chaboud shared	Talbot-Lago	—	—	—	Practice only	1
6	Charles Pozzi shared	Talbot-Lago	T26C	16	56	Finished	0
6	Louis Rosier shared	Talbot-Lago	—	6	11	Overheating	0
7	Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	Alfa Romeo	158	2	55	Fuel pump	0
8	Yves Giraud-Cabantous	Talbot-Lago	—	5	52	Finished	0
DNF	Pierre Levegh	Talbot-Lago	T26C	9	37	Engine	0
DNF	Felice Bonetto	Maserati	4CLT/50	11	15	Engine	0
DNF	Johnny Claes	Talbot-Lago	T26C	15	12	Overheating	0
DNF	Reg Parnell	Maserati	4CLT/48	12	10	Engine	0
DNF	Franco Rol	Maserati	4CLT/48	7	7	Engine	0
DNF	Louis Chiron	Maserati	4CLT/48	14	7	Engine	0
DNF	David Hampshire	Maserati	4CLT/48	18	6	Engine	0
DNF	Raymond Sommer	Talbot-Lago	—	17	5	Overheating	0
DNF	Jose Froilan Gonzalez	Maserati	—	8	4	Engine	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout reims-1 · 7.815 km · 5 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap. Drivers who shared a car have a line each.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Juan Manuel Fangio	1	1	64
Luigi Fagioli	3	2	64
Peter Whitehead	19	3	61
Robert Manzon	13	4	61
Philippe Étancelin shared	4	5	59
Charles Pozzi shared	16	6	56
Louis Rosier shared	6	6	11
Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	2	7	55
Yves Giraud-Cabantous	5	8	52
Pierre Levegh	9	DNF	37
Felice Bonetto	11	DNF	15
Johnny Claes	15	DNF	12
Reg Parnell	12	DNF	10
Franco Rol	7	DNF	7
Louis Chiron	14	DNF	7
David Hampshire	18	DNF	6
Raymond Sommer	17	DNF	5
Jose Froilan Gonzalez	8	DNF	4

1 entry with no recorded grid slot or lap count is in the classification and not drawn.

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Juan Manuel Fangio	Alfa Romeo	6	2:30.600	—	0 m	—
2	Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	Alfa Romeo	2	2:32.500	+1.900	99 m	+1.900
3	Luigi Fagioli	Alfa Romeo	4	2:34.700	+4.100	213 m	+2.200
4	Philippe Étancelin	Talbot-Lago	16	2:39.000	+8.400	436 m	+4.300
5	Yves Giraud-Cabantous	Talbot-Lago	18	2:42.700	+12.100	628 m	+3.700
6	Louis Rosier	Talbot-Lago	20	2:46.000	+15.400	799 m	+3.300
7	Franco Rol	Maserati	28	2:46.700	+16.100	835 m	+0.700
8	Jose Froilan Gonzalez	Maserati	36	2:48.000	+17.400	903 m	+1.300
9	Pierre Levegh	Talbot-Lago	22	2:49.000	+18.400	955 m	+1.000
10	Eugène Chaboud	Talbot-Lago	16	—	—	—	—
11	Felice Bonetto	Maserati	40	2:51.000	+20.400	1,059 m	—
12	Reg Parnell	Maserati	32	2:54.000	+23.400	1,214 m	+3.000
13	Robert Manzon	Simca-Gordini	44	2:55.500	+24.900	1,292 m	+1.500
14	Louis Chiron	Maserati	30	2:55.900	+25.300	1,313 m	+0.400
15	Johnny Claes	Talbot-Lago	42	2:57.400	+26.800	1,391 m	+1.500
16	Charles Pozzi	Talbot-Lago	26	2:58.000	+27.400	1,422 m	+0.600
17	Raymond Sommer	Talbot-Lago	12	2:59.300	+28.700	1,489 m	+1.300
18	David Hampshire	Maserati	34	2:59.500	+28.900	1,500 m	+0.200
19	Peter Whitehead	Ferrari	14	3:01.000	+30.400	1,578 m	+1.500

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Alfa Romeo 158/159 Alfetta
Alfa-Romeo-159-(1951) · Lennart Coopmans · CC BY-SA 2.5

Where this comes from

Round: 6 of 1950
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 2 Jul 1950
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Alfa Romeo
Entrant: Alfa Romeo
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.