F1/Seasons/1951/Round 8
1951 · Round 8 of 8

Spanish Grand Prix

October 28, 1951 · Circuit de Pedralbes · Barcelona · Spain
Fangio
WINNER
Juan Fangio · Alfa Romeo · from grid 2
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+13
MOST PLACES GAINED
Louis Rosier · grid 20 to P7
10 of 20
CLASSIFIED
9 retired · 1 withdrew

01/Classification

20 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Juan FangioAlfa Romeo2+1702:46:54.1009
2José Froilán GonzálezFerrari3+170+54.2806
3Nino FarinaAlfa Romeo4+170+1:45.5404
4Alberto AscariFerrari1-368+2 Laps3
5Felice BonettoAlfa Romeo8+368+2 Laps2
6Toulo de GraffenriedAlfa Romeo6066+4 Laps0
7Louis RosierTalbot-Lago20+1364+6 Laps0
8Philippe ÉtancelinTalbot-Lago13+563+7 Laps0
9Robert ManzonSimca9063+7 Laps0
10Paco GodiaMaserati17+760+10 Laps0
RLuigi VilloresiFerrari548Ignition0
RAndré SimonSimca1048Engine0
RJohnny ClaesTalbot-Lago1537Accident0
RPiero TaruffiFerrari730Wheel0
RMaurice TrintignantSimca1125Engine0
RGeorges GrignardTalbot-Lago1623Engine0
RYves CabantousTalbot-Lago147Accident0
RLouis ChironTalbot-Lago124Ignition0
RPrince BiraMaserati191Engine0
WJuan JoverMaserati180Engine0

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. 10 of 20 cars here were not classified (9 retired, 1 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

10 of 20 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Louis RosierTalbot-Lago207+13
Paco GodiaMaserati1710+7
Philippe ÉtancelinTalbot-Lago138+5
Felice BonettoAlfa Romeo85+3
Juan FangioAlfa Romeo21+1
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Alberto AscariFerrari14-3

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 10 of the 20 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 10: 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 1951 season

8 rounds
MAY 27 to OCT 28
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1MAY 27Swiss Grand PrixCircuit BremgartenJuan FangioAlfa Romeo21
2MAY 30Indianapolis 500Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayLee WallardKurtis Kraft34
3JUN 17Belgian Grand PrixCircuit de Spa-FrancorchampsNino FarinaAlfa Romeo13
4JUL 1French Grand PrixReims-GueuxLuigi FagioliAlfa Romeo23
5JUL 14British Grand PrixSilverstone CircuitJosé Froilán GonzálezFerrari20
6JUL 29German Grand PrixNürburgringAlberto AscariFerrari22
7SEP 16Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaAlberto AscariFerrari22
8OCT 28Spanish Grand PrixCircuit de PedralbesJuan FangioAlfa Romeo20

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 1951 season is complete at 8 rounds.