F1/Seasons/1950/Round 2
1950 · Round 2 of 7

Monaco Grand Prix

May 21, 1950 · Circuit de Monaco · Monte Carlo · Monaco
Fangio
WINNER
Juan Fangio · Alfa Romeo · from grid 1
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+12
MOST PLACES GAINED
Johnny Claes · grid 19 to P7
7 of 21
CLASSIFIED
12 retired · 2 withdrew

01/Classification

21 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Juan FangioAlfa Romeo101003:13:18.7009
2Alberto AscariFerrari7+599+1 Lap6
3Louis ChironMaserati8+598+2 Laps4
4Raymond SommerFerrari9+597+3 Laps3
5Prince BiraMaserati15+1095+5 Laps2
6Bob GerardERA16+1094+6 Laps0
7Johnny ClaesTalbot-Lago19+1294+6 Laps0
RLuigi VilloresiFerrari663Axle0
RPhilippe ÉtancelinTalbot-Lago438Oil leak0
RJosé Froilán GonzálezMaserati31Accident0
RNino FarinaAlfa Romeo20Accident0
RLuigi FagioliAlfa Romeo50Accident0
RLouis RosierTalbot-Lago100Accident0
RRobert ManzonSimca110Accident0
RToulo de GraffenriedMaserati120Accident0
RMaurice TrintignantSimca130Accident0
RCuth HarrisonERA140Accident0
RFranco RolMaserati170Accident0
RHarry SchellCooper200Collision0
WPeter WhiteheadFerrari210Engine0
WAlfredo PiánMaserati180Accident0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 14 of 21 cars here were not classified (12 retired, 2 withdrew). Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

7 of 21 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Johnny ClaesTalbot-Lago197+12
Prince BiraMaserati155+10
Bob GerardERA166+10
Alberto AscariFerrari72+5
Louis ChironMaserati83+5
PLACES LOST

No classified car finished behind its grid slot.

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 7 of the 21 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 14: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and no car here carries grid 0, the value the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1950 season

7 rounds
MAY 13 to SEP 3
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1MAY 13British Grand PrixSilverstone CircuitNino FarinaAlfa Romeo23
2MAY 21Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoJuan FangioAlfa Romeo21
3MAY 30Indianapolis 500Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayJohnnie ParsonsKurtis Kraft34
4JUN 4Swiss Grand PrixCircuit BremgartenNino FarinaAlfa Romeo18
5JUN 18Belgian Grand PrixCircuit de Spa-FrancorchampsJuan FangioAlfa Romeo14
6JUL 2French Grand PrixReims-GueuxJuan FangioAlfa Romeo19
7SEP 3Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaNino FarinaAlfa Romeo27

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1950 season is complete at 7 rounds.