F1's debut king, Giancarlo Baghetti, died on this day in 1995. No one is ever likely to match his record as the man who won his first world championship grand prix – and his first three F1 races, too. In today's Great Read, Nigel Roebuck recalls meeting this humble Italian at Monza in the 1980s
On May 13, 1950 Giuseppe Farina took the chequered flag at Silverstone, and thus by definition won a world championship race at his first attempt, for this was the first such to be run. If you want to be similarly pedantic, you can say that 17 days later Johnnie Parsons did the same – unfathomably, for the first 10 years of the world championship, the Indianapolis 500 was a point-scoring round.
Contrary to what some appear to believe, though, motor racing did not begin in 1950. By the time he arrived at Silverstone, Farina had already driven many a grand prix – indeed had won at Monaco – and Parsons' victory was his third shot at the 500...
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