SIXTY YEARS ON: Iconic Alfa 158 with Alfa MiTo Cloverleaf outside the British Racing Drivers' Club, Silverstone Motor Racing Circuit. Photo supplied / Mike Jiggle.
Italian driver, Giuseppe Farina, dominated the race, bringing home his 300bhp Alfa Romeo 158 race car – also known as the Alfetta – ahead of fellow Alfa drivers Luigi Fagioli and Britain’s Reg Parnell.
All three finished two laps ahead of the 21-strong field.
To celebrate, one of the rare 158s which competed in this historic race has revisited Silverstone.
It was joined by the latest Alfa Romeo to bear the famous motorsport inspired Cloverleaf badge, the Alfa MiTo, for inclusion in the company’s commemorative Mosaic digital art project.
Having made their motor racing debut in 1937, the 158s spent the war years dismantled and hidden in various inconspicuous places including, legend has it, an Italian cheese factory.
In total, the Alfa 158 and its derivative, the 159, dominated the Formula One calendar over the next few years, with 47 wins from 54 Grand Prix entered, and thus secured Alfa Romeo’s revered place in Formula One motor racing history.
