Defunct entry · Debut 1950

Alfa Romeo SpAF1 team history & lineage

The marque that won the first two World Championships with the pre-war Alfetta, then returned twice as an engine supplier and a works team.

Base
Milan, Italy
Founded
1910 as A.L.F.A., racing department from 1938
Constructors' titles
0
Drivers' titles
2
Race wins
10
Identities
2

Lineage

50
1950 — 1951

Alfa Romeo SpA

Two drivers' titles with the Alfetta 158/159.

79
1979 — 1985

Autodelta / Alfa Romeo

Works return with flat-12 then turbo V8 power.

The Long Version

The supercharged 158/159 Alfetta was already a decade old in 1950 and still beat everything on the grid.

Giuseppe Farina took the inaugural 1950 title and Juan Manuel Fangio the 1951 crown before Alfa withdrew.

Autodelta ran a works return from 1979 to 1985 with turbo V8s that were fast but fragile.

The name later reappeared as a Sauber title sponsorship from 2019 rather than a separate entry.

Drivers of Note