F1: from Fangio to Hamilton, a 70-year race

His first 70 years of triumphs, dramas and timeless passions. The queen of speed celebrates an important age that perhaps does not demonstrate, in a year, that of Coronavirus, in which she has not yet managed to turn on the green light. A glorious and fortunate history that Formula 1 celebrates by looking with respect at the famous past that now knows of amarcord, but pushing the accelerator on the present and above all on the future designed by the new star and stripes property. Americans celebrating the anniversary of 13 May 1950 when the first F1 Grand Prix of the Silverstone World Championship took off in England and which was won by the Italian driver Nino Farina, then graduated with the world champion Alfa Romeo.
    In the following years the Circus was above all a private affair by Juan Manuel Fangio and Alberto Ascari's Ferrari, with the Argentine who won the challenge with the Italian by ringing six titles and remaining the largest of all until the advent of Michael Schumacher reached seven. A record that could be equaled this year by the current world champion, the Englishman Lewis Hamilton.
    In 70 years of racing and pole positions, 33 drivers have been in total, 108 have won Grand Prix races while 764 drivers and over 150 teams have taken part in the World Championship. Stables, which in addition to the drivers, have made the fortune of this sport: first of all Ferrari, born from the Drake's motoring instinct and gradually become a symbol of Italy that started and learned to race at the end of the war. After the Prancing Horse, all the others came from Alfa Romeo to Mercedes, from McLaren to Williams, to Lotus. An epic that of Formula 1 that came alive at the turn of the 70s, when the single-seaters became more and more performing and the drivers risked their lives caressing the dream of becoming a myth for fans of the time. Here then are the challenges between Jackie Stewart and Emerson Fittipaldi and then the even more famous one, relaunched today by the Rush film, with the 'battles' on and off the track between Niki Lauda and James Hunt. And then the advent of the Brazilians Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna, whose tragic death in Imola on May 1, 1994, as also happened for the unforgettable Ferrari driver Gilles Villeneuve on May 8, 1982 in the frightening accident at Zolder in Belgium, in addition to making it a legend marked the beginning of modern Formula 1 in the name of Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley, where the stables had to be able to make the cars not only faster, but also safer. To dominate, in this phase, the kaiser Schumacher will soon be enough to make people forget the now 'old' Alain Prost and Nigel Mansell. Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve's children will remain brackets. To break the dominance of Schumi's Rossa, Jean Todt (now FIA president) and Luca di Montezemolo, the Spanish Fernando Alonso will take care of him, raised by the Italian manager Flavio Briatore.
    Once landed in Ferrari, the Asturian will stop winning, leaving room for another German, Sebastian Vettel, so good as to arrive after four titles in Red Bull in Maranello where he has not yet managed to bring back the World Drivers' championship which is missing from the joy of hearts red since 2007 by Kimi Raikkonen. To take everything in recent years, thanks also to a super Mercedes, and except for the interlude of the other son of, Nico Riosberg, will be the English colored Lewis Hamilton, able to win six times as Fangio and one step from the primacy of Schumi. To stop him for now, the Coronavirus thought that, in the year in which Formula 1 turns 70, he managed to delay his departure ruining for now a season that he could not wait to amaze with yet another son of, Max Verstappen, and the rising star in Ferrari Charles Leclerc. (HANDLE).