F1/Seasons/1950/Round 4
1950 · Round 4 of 7

Swiss Grand Prix

June 4, 1950 · Circuit Bremgarten · Bern · Switzerland
Farina
WINNER
Nino Farina · Alfa Romeo · from grid 2
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+10
MOST PLACES GAINED
Harry Schell · grid 18 to P8
11 of 18
CLASSIFIED
7 retired

01/Classification

18 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Nino FarinaAlfa Romeo2+1422:02:53.7009
2Luigi FagioliAlfa Romeo3+142+0.4006
3Louis RosierTalbot-Lago10+741+1 Lap4
4Prince BiraMaserati8+440+2 Laps3
5Felice BonettoMaserati12+740+2 Laps2
6Toulo de GraffenriedMaserati11+540+2 Laps0
7Nello PaganiMaserati15+839+3 Laps0
8Harry SchellTalbot-Lago18+1039+3 Laps0
9Louis ChironMaserati16+739+3 Laps0
10Johnny ClaesTalbot-Lago14+438+4 Laps0
11Toni BrancaMaserati17+635+7 Laps0
RJuan FangioAlfa Romeo132Engine0
RPhilippe ÉtancelinTalbot-Lago625Gearbox0
REugène MartinTalbot-Lago919Accident0
RRaymond SommerFerrari1319Suspension0
RLuigi VilloresiFerrari49Engine0
RAlberto AscariFerrari54Oil pump0
RYves CabantousTalbot-Lago70Accident0

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. 7 of 18 cars here were not classified (7 retired). 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

11 of 18 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Harry SchellTalbot-Lago188+10
Nello PaganiMaserati157+8
Louis RosierTalbot-Lago103+7
Felice BonettoMaserati125+7
Louis ChironMaserati169+7
PLACES LOST

No classified car finished behind its grid slot.

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 11 of the 18 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 7: 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.