Formula One, the highest class of single-seater motor racing, held its first official World Championship season in 1950. The first race took place at Silverstone in England in May, in front of King George VI, and was won by the Italian driver Nino Farina in an Alfa Romeo. Farina went on to become the first World Champion that year. The series grew from the Grand Prix racing of the 1920s and 1930s and from the pre-war Grand Prix formulas, and it is governed by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile. The sport has always been dominated by European teams and drivers, with Ferrari, founded in 1929, as the only team to compete in every season. Formula One has grown into a global spectacle.
Before and after
- from c. 1950s to 1970sDecolonisation of Africa
- c. 1950sInvention of Holter monitor
- c. 1950sRise of pop art
- 1950Discovery of californium
- 1950Origins of Formula One
- from 1950 to 1954McCarthyism
- 1950Fermi paradox
- 1950Publication of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- c. 1950sDuverger's law
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The era
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