How Alfa Romeo Dominated the First 1950 F1 Season (Season Review)

A video about the history of Alfa Romeo and their cars, the technology behind it, the history of Formula 1 and the 7 races of the 1950 season at Silverstone, Monaco, Indianapolis, Bremgarten (Switzerland), the old Spa, Reims-Gieux (France) and Monza.
Including: Fangio, Farina, Fagioli, Ascari, Rosier, Sommer, Chiron, Prince Bira and of course Claes!
Hope you enjoy it!
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[@KRNyt]

Apologies for any minor audio/video/delay issues Timeframes: 0:00 - Intro 0:36 - History of Alfa Romeo 4:44 - Technology behind Alfa Romeo's car 8:36 - Creation of F1 9:36 - Round 1: Britain 16:51 - Round 2: Monaco 21:09 - Round 3: USA 23:52 - Round 4: Switzerland 28:40 - Round 5: Belgium 33:03 - Round 6: France 37:29 - Round 7: Italy

[@KitKatastrophe]

Pretty underrated video, can't wait to see more!

[@KRNyt]

Thanks!

[@ashooaway]

Honestly what a great job, I'm surprised you are not a historical motor racing teacher 😇

[@markwhitmore4547]

What a fantastic video that is criminally underviewed!! A great look at the first F1 season with fun graphics and a wealth of information. Great job!!

[@Thegamingdino133]

Still on formula 1 season 1 so this helped alot

[@dinotrumic4253]

Thank you for this. I was looking for it for a long time.

[@KRNyt]

No problem!

[@pauloluciomachadodebrito8107]

What a great video!!! We NEED a 1951

[@KRNyt]

Thanks, I will have to make one somewhen!

[@19megamustaine85]

awesone video i think we need all the seasons from the 50's cheers !

[@kaiglembocki4601]

Makes me mad more people don’t get recommended this great stuff here thx!

[@KRNyt]

Historic content tends to get way less views

[@merrynsmith1751]

Loved the commentary, graphics and imformation. Great video.

[@KRNyt]

Thanks! Only just noticed your comment sorry!

[@robotlunchboxxx]

Wow! Great Video! I Learnt A Lot About The 1950 Season In This Vid.

[@KRNyt]

Thank you! Sorry for the poor audio and the couple of animation glitches :D

[@BramStolk]

Great video! Thanks for making it. A nail-biter, even in season 1.

[@KRNyt]

Thanks for watching! I reckon the finale would be remembered as a 'classic' if the season happened nowadays and there was footage.

[@bowelrupture]

Great way to cover the earliest season in F1.

[@KRNyt]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[@user-xn3vj4eu8l]

Hey KRN I hope u do every F1 season review, u doing great in this video except audio issue lol

[@KRNyt]

Thanks! Audio is much better now!

[@marinusvanzoggel6941]

Great video! Only 1 "minor" mistake at 10:30 British GP.... That's definitely not Queen Elizabeth 2... Elizabeth wasn't Queen yet in 1950 and 1951 ;)...

[@ChristopherWHerbert]

Queen Elizabeth, later to be known as the Queen Mother. She was Queen Elizabeth the Seconds mother, Wife of George VI How we both found this video and made the same observation is one of those mysteries. (if it did happen on the same day, Several years after the video was uploaded)

[@aunimjoarder]

This video is incredible! Defo subscribing haha

[@KRNyt]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@ducedevlstear2471]

Really appreciate the effort and energy you put into this. Sadly today rarely someone looks any further than Senna. But I personally love this era pretty much since I started following F1. Even the pre WW2 era was amazing. And just handful of people take interest there. You deserve lot more views than that. It might pick up once you go season after season, who knows. But please don't stop here.

[@KRNyt]

Thanks, I appreciate the comment. I think one of the reasons there's such a lack of interest is due to the quantity of footage there is from pre-1980s. There was a lot I learnt from making this which I would implement if I found the time to make a 1951 episode including using a better mic etc, which hopefully would boost the views up

[@AS19Motorsport]

33:10 ooh I’ve been there!

[@KRNyt]

Nice! Not been but I'd imagine it's probably one of the coolest 'old F1' places to visit

[@lautaross13]

I NEED THE OTHER SEASONS

[@master-kq3nw]

that drivers was heroes monaco without fence reims road circiut bremgarten and spa trees near circiut.. farina fangio ascari great drivers

[@damage98]

Well done! I like your production style and the clarity with which you break down the 1950 #formula1 season. The subject matter is not new to me, but details and factoids are a motorsports enthusiasts heroin 😊. While watching your video, I grabbed 2 books off my shelf .. The first was 'formula 1 car by car 1950-59 by Peter Higham, and the second was William Court's magnificent 'Grand Prix Requiem'. If you do not own a copy of the latter, treat yourself to some of the most poignant and pithy writing on the subject ever written. Be warned, Court writes in a classical style that can be deadly, you'll find yourself reading sentences aloud to yourself, marveling at the diction and complexity of his work. Definitely not for the faint of heart. Why that book? Because your mention of Achilles Varzi made me think of the chapter on his life and passing and how I should read it again. It's not a biography, it's a requiem, and as such it's far from a good way to learn of his career and life. But it is a good way to get a bit teary eyed... No, no, that's just something in my eye...😅 Keep up the great work!

[@wesleyamancio3686]

you will make pre war too ?

[@canismajoris6733]

Good vid apart from the stuff about the engine placements and it's effects on car handling. Should do some more research on that

[@ducedevlstear2471]

Could you help to explain ?

[@jcgabriel1569]

@@ducedevlstear2471 I have read the book about the Alfetta, and have read some more things about the car, and the most likely reasons why it is so successful, but it could be quite a long read.

[@jcgabriel1569]

@@ducedevlstear2471 The book includes some technical opinions from people who were lucky to work on these machines (one Alfetta managed to get out of the factory - Alfa Romeo never put any of the cars for sale- and the owners of the car proceeded to race it in historic racing. Actually, at this point, there were two Alfettas in private hands, one recently completed from parts discovered in Italy). Anyway. One major thing they noticed is, how the car was designed. In a way, they felt that Gioacchino Colombo over-engineered the Alfetta in the first place. There were several testaments for this. One is the fact that most components managed to survive mostly unmodified despite ever-increasing power output. The engine design managed to withstand ever increasing boost pressure from the two-stage supercharger (that was only implemented after the war) and ever increasing revs without a lot of modifications, hell, the gearbox remained the same, for instance! The other evidence for the "over-engineering" theory, is simply incredible. Most of the sources tend to agree that in the whole competitive history of the Alfetta, Alfa Romeo only made 9 engine monoblocks (the engine block and the head is cast in one piece), and all 9 were made back in 1937-38.

[@larsdegroot2979]

If you want, could you share your sources for the detailed race reports?

[@KRNyt]

I searched for a specific race on the internet, read reports on different websites talking about the races (taking note of their reliability) and merged the reports together in my word document. This included looking at archives of old motorsport magazines on the internet e.g. www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-1950/7/the-royal-silverstone-meeting

[@rohanjose4967]

When's the next season review comming?👉👈

[@KRNyt]

No plans in the immediate future unfortunately but make sure you're subscribed for when I get around to doing 1951! :D

[@rohanjose4967]

@@KRNyt ofc waiting for the next one

[@formularguments7335]

26:42 ("him and his mechanics were unfortunately not Injured?? 😳)

[@KRNyt]

*fortunately 😬

[@hammyshayaddy8330]

Very cool video and very nice effort trying to pronounce all those foreign names.

[@KRNyt]

Thanks I tried my best!

[@TuommoK]

🤘🤠👍

[@KRNyt]

👍👍👍

[@edvards7461]

We want a 1951 season (I get it it Takes a long Time to make these)

[@KRNyt]

Hopefully I can get around to making another one of these but unfortunately {shorter videos/more recent content} gets 200x more views with 200x less effort

[@squilldx5055]

@@KRNyt understandable. This was really helpful though so it’s greatly appreciated

[@KRNyt]

@@squilldx5055 Yeah it's a shame as I really enjoying researching the historic content

[@edvards7461]

@@squilldx5055 idk how he got this much information

[@KRNyt]

@@edvards7461 A lot of reading old articles...

[@safakbudak3489]

where is 1951? :)

[@Apocraphtica]

Ferrari domination -52 and on? is much worse. WC`s 1950 and 1951 was decided at the last race, much more better then what become "ferrari scurge"