French Grand Prix

Date
Sun 1st July 1951 (UTC)
Sun 1st July 1951 (Local)

Timestamp
1951-07-01T13:00:00

Time

13:00:00 UTC

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League
Formula 1

Season
1951

Round
4

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Location
Reims-Gueux

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Description

The 1951 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Reims-Gueux on 1 July 1951. It was race 4 of 8 in the 1951 World Championship of Drivers and was won by Juan Manuel Fangio and Luigi Fagioli driving an Alfa Romeo. It was the first of three occasions where two drivers would be credited with a Grand Prix win after sharing a car.
The race, which also carried the honorific title of European Grand Prix, saw the World Championship debuts of Aldo Gordini, André Simon and Onofre Marimón. Fagioli's victory, his first in a World Championship race, made him the oldest driver to win a World Championship Grand Prix, a record he still holds. This race also holds the record for the longest Formula One Grand Prix in terms of total distance needed to cover. 77 laps of the 4.856 mile Reims-Gueux circuit totaled to 373.961 miles.

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Result List

Result Description

1 /Luigi Fagioli-Juan Manuel Fangio (shared car) /Alfa Romeo /3:22:11.0
2 /José Froilán González - Alberto Ascari (shared car) /Ferrari /+ 58.2
3 /Luigi Villoresi /Ferrari /+ 3 Laps
4 /Reg Parnell /Ferrari /+ 4 Laps
5 /Nino Farina /Alfa Romeo /+ 4 Laps
6 /Louis Chiron /Talbot-Lago-Talbot /+ 6 Laps
7 /Yves Giraud-Cabantous /Talbot-Lago-Talbot /+ 6 Laps
8 /Eugène Chaboud /Talbot-Lago-Talbot /+ 8 Laps
9 /Guy Mairesse /Talbot-Lago-Talbot /+ 11 Laps
10 /Consalvo Sanesi /Alfa Romeo /+ 19 Laps

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