Ferrari 125

The Ferrari 125 F1 was Scuderia Ferrari's first Formula One car. It was used by the Italian team during the 1950 and 1951 seasons in a total of eight World Championship Grands Prix, having previously been used in Grands Prix in 1948 and 1949.

Ferrari 125 in Action Edit

For 1950, the first year of World Championship racing Ferrari used the Ferrari 125 and had three factory drivers, Italians Alberto Ascari & Luigi Villoresi and Frenchman Raymond Sommer.

The team were not present at Silverstone for the first round of the championship but figured well at Monaco where many of the drivers were involved in the first lap accident that claimed 10 of the cars.

Ascari and Sommer escaped the drama and Villoresi survived but stalled, after he got going again he charged through the field, overtaking his teammate and friend Ascari for second before retiring with a damaged rear axel. Ascari would finish second with Sommer 4th.

The next race they entered was round 4, the Swiss GP at Bremgarten but all Ferrari's retired early on with mechanical problems. Sommer only managed to qualify thirteenth in Switzerland and was dropped by the team for round 5 at Spa-Francochamps.

At Spa Sommer was on fire, passing the Ferrari's in his ageing Talbot-Lago and became the first driver none Alfa 

Romeo driver to lead a race but blew his engine in the process. Sommer had starred whilst the Ferrari's of Ascari and Villoresi had snook home and disappointing 5th and 6th.

The team moved onto to France but Enzo Ferrari was not satsified with the pace of his cars and pulled them out of the race whilst privateer Peter Whitehead brough his Ferrari 125 home 3rd after starting from the back.

Ferrari spent time testing a new car at Geneva, the Ferrari 375 which would be the factory car from this point onwards.

Complete Formula One ResultsEdit

Year	Driver	Tyre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1950
	Peter Whitehead	D		DNS				3	7
	Luigi Villoresi	P		Ret		Ret	6
	Alberto Ascari			2		Ret
	Raymond Sommer			4
1951
	Peter Whitehead	D	Ret			Ret
		P							Ret
1952
	Peter Whitehead	D					10			DNQ

VictoriesEdit

Non-Championship Events

Date	Location	Driver
October 24, 1948	Garda Circuit, Salo	Giussepe Farina
July 3, 1949	Switzerland Grand Prix, Bern	Alberto Ascari
July 31, 1949	Zandvoort Grand Prix	Luigi Villoresi
August 20, 1949	Daily Express Trophy, Silverstone	Alberto Ascari
September 11, 1949	Italian Grand Prix, Monza	Alberto Ascari
September 25, 1949	Masaryk Circuit, Brno	Peter Whitehead
July 13, 1950	Jersey Road Race	Peter Whitehead
August 12, 1950	Ulster Trophy, Dundrod	Peter Whitehead
October 1, 1950	Interstate Race, Interlagos	Chico Landi
January 25, 1951	Sao Paulo Grand Prix	Chico Landi
May 20, 1951	Governador Noguera Garcez Race, Interlagos	Chico Landi
June 28, 1951	Boa Vista Grand Prix, Rio de Janiero	Chico Landi

NotesEdit

1. ↑ Scored 12 non-championship victories

Succession Ferrari cars Predecessor Ferrari 125 Successor Ferrari 275