75 years in the past – Watch F1’s new colorized footage of the 1950 British GP

Method 1 has launched colorized footage of its very first world championship race, which befell 75 years in the past at Silverstone.

On 13 Might 1950, 21 automobiles had been on the grid for the British Grand Prix – additionally named European Grand Prix – together with the dominant Alfa Romeos in addition to Maseratis, Talbot Lago automobiles from France, with Alta and ERA representing the UK.

Ferrari didn’t attend, with some reviews claiming that Enzo Ferrari was sad with the cash on supply from race organizers whereas one other principle is that the Italian didn’t reckon his automobiles had been going to be aggressive sufficient in comparison with the almighty Alfas. The prancing horse centered on the Monaco race the next weekend.

Pit Lane (Color)

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Grid (Color)

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Alfa achieved a 1-2-3-4 in qualifying, locking out the four-car entrance row with Giuseppe Farina, Luigi Fagioli, Juan Manuel Fangio (referred to as Juan Fangio within the broadcast) and Reg Parnell – with their common age a whopping 43 years outdated.

The Italian producer dominated the race too, with Farina, Fagioli and Parnell taking all three steps on the rostrum whereas the Talbot-Lagos of Yves Giraud-Cantabous and Louis Rosier had been two laps down in fourth and fifth however nonetheless scored factors. Fangio retired as a result of a damaged oil pipe.

The brand new footage has been restored and colorized utilizing “superior AI software program, reference imagery, and guide portray methods”, with “particular parts such because the sky, grass, automobiles, and faces are electronically painted manually to really deliver the scene to life”, as per F1’s press launch relating to the video.