| Type: | F1 |
| Country: | Italy |
| Grand Prix: | Italian |
| Official Name: | XXI GRAN PREMIO D'ITALIA |
| Date: | 3 September |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Previous Round: | 1950 French Grand Prix |
| Next Round: | 1951 Swiss Grand Prix |
| Location: | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy |
| Course: | Permanent racing facility |
| Course Mi: | 3.915 |
| Course Km: | 6.300 |
| Distance Laps: | 80 |
| Distance Mi: | 313.171 |
| Distance Km: | 504.000 |
| Weather: | Warm, hot and sunny |
| Pole Driver: | Juan Manuel Fangio[1] |
| Pole Team: | Alfa Romeo |
| Pole Time: | 1:58.6 |
| Pole Country: | Argentina |
| Fast Driver: | Juan Manuel Fangio[2] |
| Fast Team: | Alfa Romeo |
| Fast Time: | 2:00.0 |
| Fast Lap: | 7[3] |
| Fast Country: | Argentina |
| First Driver: | Nino Farina |
| First Team: | Alfa Romeo |
| First Country: | Italy |
| Second Driver: | Dorino Serafini |
| Second Team: | Ferrari |
| Second Country: | Italy |
| Second Driver2: | Alberto Ascari |
| Second Country2: | Italy |
| Third Driver: | Luigi Fagioli |
| Third Team: | Alfa Romeo |
| Third Country: | Italy |
The 1950 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 3 September 1950 at Autodromo Nazionale di Monza. It was race 7 of 7 in the 1950 World Championship of Drivers. In this race, Nino Farina became the first World Drivers' Champion, and the only driver to win the title in his home country.
After Juan Manuel Fangio's win at the, Fangio had obtained 26 points, two ahead of teammate Luigi Fagioli and four ahead of another teammate, Giuseppe Farina. Having already finished four times in the points (all second places), Fagioli would only be able to drop six points or not gain at all, while Fangio and Farina had only finished three times. All three of Fangio's finishes were wins.
To win the championship,
— Giovanni Bracco, Luigi de Filippis, Reg Parnell, Luigi Platé and Franco Bordoni all withdrew from the event prior to practice.[7]
— Dorino Serafini qualified and drove 47 laps of the race in the #48 Ferrari. Alberto Ascari, whose own vehicle had already retired, took over Serafini's car for the remaining 33 laps of the race.[8]
— Piero Taruffi qualified and drove 25 laps of the race in the #60 Alfa Romeo. Juan Manuel Fangio, whose own Alfa had already retired, took over Taruffi's car for a further 9 laps before again being forced to retire.[8]
Ferrari pulled out all the stops to impress at their home circuit, producing a new unsupercharged 4½ litre engine to try to end the Alfa Romeo monopoly. Alberto Ascari used it to achieve second place on the grid to Juan Manuel Fangio's Alfa Romeo 158 and then in the race behind the fast starting Nino Farina (Alfa Romeo 158) before briefly leading. The pace was too punishing for the new car and a porous block broke on lap 20 and the battle returned as usual to the Alfas. Fangio retired twice; once in his own Alfa Romeo 158 and a second time after taking over Piero Taruffi's. Farina led to the finish from Ascari who was now in teammate Dorino Serafini's Ferrari 375 with Luigi Fagioli finishing third in his Alfa Romeo 158. Louis Rosier finish fourth in his Talbot-Lago T26C with Philippe Étancelin fifth in his Lago-Talbot. Étancelin would become the oldest driver to ever score a world championship point with that finish. Only seven cars finished out of the 27 starters and with Farina's win and Fangio's failure to score and Fagioli's third place points removed as his worst scoring finish, Farina became the first recipient of the World Driver's Championship crown.
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Time | Gap | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | data-sort-value="FAN" |  Juan Manuel Fangio | Alfa Romeo | 1:58.6 | – | ||
| 2 | 16 | data-sort-value="ASC" |  Alberto Ascari | Ferrari | 1:58.8 | + 0.2 | ||
| 3 | 10 | data-sort-value="FAR" | Nino Farina | Alfa Romeo | 2:00.2 | + 1.6 | ||
| 4 | 46 | data-sort-value="SAN" | Consalvo Sanesi | Alfa Romeo | 2:00.4 | + 1.8 | ||
| 5 | 36 | data-sort-value="FAG" | Luigi Fagioli | Alfa Romeo | 2:04.0 | + 5.4 | ||
| 6 | 48 | data-sort-value="SER" | Dorino Serafini | Ferrari | 2:05.6 | + 7.0 | ||
| 7 | 60 | data-sort-value="TAR" | Piero Taruffi | Alfa Romeo | 2:05.8 | + 7.2 | ||
| 8 | 12 | data-sort-value="SOM" |  Raymond Sommer | Talbot-Lago-Talbot | 2:08.6 | + 10.0 | ||
| 9 | 4 | data-sort-value="ROL" | Franco Rol | Maserati | 2:10.0 | + 11.4 | ||
| 10 | 44 | data-sort-value="MAN" | Robert Manzon | Simca-Gordini | 2:12.4 | + 13.8 | ||
| 11 | 40 | data-sort-value="MAI" | Guy Mairesse | Talbot-Lago-Talbot | 2:13.2 | + 14.6 | ||
| 12 | 42 | data-sort-value="TRI" | Maurice Trintignant | Simca-Gordini | 2:13.4 | + 14.8 | ||
| 13 | 58 | data-sort-value="ROS" | Louis Rosier | Talbot-Lago-Talbot | 2:13.4 | + 14.8 | ||
| 14 | 64 | data-sort-value="LOU" | Henri Louveau | Talbot-Lago-Talbot | 2:13.8 | + 15.2 | ||
| 15 | 30 | data-sort-value="BIR" |  Prince Bira | Maserati | 2:14.0 | + 15.4 | ||
| 16 | 24 | data-sort-value="ETA" | Philippe Étancelin | Talbot-Lago-Talbot | 2:14.4 | + 15.8 | ||
| 17 | 38 | data-sort-value="GRA" |  Toulo de Graffenried | Maserati | 2:14.4 | + 15.8 | ||
| 18 | 8 | data-sort-value="WHI" | Peter Whitehead | Ferrari | 2:16.2 | + 17.6 | ||
| 19 | 6 | data-sort-value="CHI" |  Louis Chiron | Maserati | 2:17.2 | + 18.6 | ||
| 20 | 56 | data-sort-value="LEV" | Pierre Levegh | Talbot-Lago-Talbot | 2:17.2 | + 18.6 | ||
| 21 | 32 | data-sort-value="HAR" | Cuth Harrison | ERA | 2:18.4 | + 19.8 | ||
| 22 | 2 | data-sort-value="CLA" |  Johnny Claes | Talbot-Lago-Talbot | 2:18.6 | + 20.0 | ||
| 23 | 52 | data-sort-value="BON" | Felice Bonetto | Milano-Speluzzi | 2:19.8 | + 21.2 | ||
| 24 | 50 | data-sort-value="MUR" | David Murray | Maserati | 2:22.0 | + 23.4 | ||
| 25 | 22 | data-sort-value="BIO" | Clemente Biondetti | Ferrari-Jaguar | 2:30.6 | + 32.0 | ||
| 26 | 62 | data-sort-value="COM" | Franco Comotti | Maserati-Milano | 2:33.6 | + 35.0 | ||
| 27 | 28 | data-sort-value="PIE" |  Paul Pietsch | Maserati | 3:00.2 | + 61.9 | ||
| data-sort-value="28" | DNA | 14 | data-sort-value="BRA" | Giovanni Bracco | Ferrari | data-sort-value="27" | – | – |
| data-sort-value="28" | DNA | 26 | data-sort-value="PAR" | Reg Parnell | Maserati | data-sort-value="27" | – | – |
| data-sort-value="28" | DNA | 34 | data-sort-value="PLA" | Luigi Platé | Talbot | data-sort-value="28" | – | – |
| Pos | Driver | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | Nino Farina | 30 | |
| 1 | 2 | Juan Manuel Fangio | 27 | |
| 1 | 3 | Luigi Fagioli | 24 (28) | |
| 4 | Louis Rosier | 13 | ||
| 1 | 5 | Alberto Ascari | 11 | |
| Source: [9] | ||||