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Alfa Romeo celebrates history with help from Fangio's sons

Twitter.com / SauberF1Team Silverstone is never short of a sweeping sense of history. After all, it was the place where the very first Formula 1 Grand Prix was held on May 13, 1950. That auspicious event was won by Giuseppe Farina for Alfa Romeo. After a long absence the marque is back in Formula 1 in 2018 as a title sponsor to the Sauber F1 team, and so it was only fitting that they would want to commemorate that moment this weekend. And they did so in style with special guests Oscar and Rubén Fangio, the sons of five-time F1 world champion Juan Manuel Fangio who was Farina's team mate driving a GP Tipo 158 "Alfetta" in that first Grand Prix. They're pictured above in the...
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