1950s F1 star Peter Collins took his debut championship race win at the 1956 Belgian GP on this day, driving the Ferrari-Lancia D50. That car struck fear into the leading lights of Mercedes, but it helped ruin its makers and gifted a later world title to the Scuderia, says Doug Nye
Rudi Uhlenhaut, the engineer behind the stupendous W196 Mercedes, described the Lancia D50 Formula 1 machine as "the only car we really feared". Although the W196 and Maserati 250F were the highlights of the 1954-55 F1 campaigns, it was the stubby, compact, pannier-tanked D50s that would go on to have a lasting legacy.
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