1951 Swiss Grand Prix

Entrants

The Swiss Grand Prix opens the 1951 World Championship in place of Monaco, which is absent from the calendar. Alfa Romeo field four cars — Fangio, Farina, Consalvo Sanesi and Toulo de Graffenried — occupying all four spots on the front two rows of the grid. The highest non-Alfa qualifier is Ferrari’s Luigi Villoresi, who lines up alongside Fangio and Farina on the front row. Ferrari’s Alberto Ascari enters despite suffering burns sustained at a Formula 2 race in Genoa the previous weekend.

HWM make their World Championship debut with Stirling Moss and George Abecassis. Piero Taruffi, starting from sixth on the grid, contests only his second World Championship race for Ferrari.

Weather

Rain falls for the race at the tree-lined Bremgarten public road circuit near Bern.