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THE F1
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CHAMPIONSHIP
RACES
This book focuses on the history of Ferrari’s
involvement in the F1 World Championship.
However, from the 1950s to the 1970s,
many F1 races took place outside the
World Championship. There were also local
championships organized according to
F1 regulations that did not count towards
the official championship. These F1 non-
championship races were mostly held at
non-homologated circuits, and often with
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very few teams entered. In 1950, for example,
out of a total of twenty-two Formula 1 Grand
Prix races held that season, only six officially
counted towards the championship: these
were the European Grand Prix, Monaco,
Swiss, Belgian, French Automobile Club de
France, and Italy.
Ferrari took part in many non-championship
races during this time. At the Grand Prix of
Syracuse, Sicily, Scuderia Ferrari won the
event no less than twelve times in the 1950s
and 1960s.
In 1956, Juan Manuel Fangio, shown here
in his Lancia D50 single-seater entered
by Ferrari scored two non-championship
Grand Prix victories in Syracuse, Sicily, and
Mendoza, Argentina.
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