As F1 celebrates 75 years of the World Championship, it\u2019s the perfect time to look at the sport\u2019s all-time outstanding cars. Below, our technical guru Mark Hughes presents the best performing machines from each decade, as well as providing a few honourable mentions\u2026<\/p>\n
1950s \u2013 Alfa Romeo Alfetta<\/p>\n
The Alfetta was originally designed for the pre-war voiturette (F2) class and was very successful there from its introduction in 1937. But it came to full flower post-war as what had been the pre-war voiturette class became the new F1, thereby instantly making the Alfetta a Grand Prix car, one which powered the sport\u2019s first two World Champion drivers to their titles in 1950 and \u201951.<\/p>\n
The man behind the creation of the car was Enzo Ferrari<\/a> in his 1930s capacity as Alfa Romeo<\/a>\u2019s entrant and advisor. Alfa Romeo designer Gioacchino Colombo created a 1.5-litre supercharged straight-8 engine which was built by Alfa, but the car into which it was fitted was created at Ferrari\u2019s workshop before Ferrari was a constructor in his own right. So, it was ironic that post-war, Enzo Ferrari\u2019s initial barrier to success as he tried to establish his own race team was the formidable Alfetta he\u2019d helped create!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As F1 celebrates 75 years of the World Championship, it\u2019s the perfect time to look at the sport\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-86507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}