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Ferrari loop the loop ...

July 14, 1951. There just sixty years, Argentine Jose Froilan Gonzalez, gave Ferrari has its very first victory in the World Championship Formula 1, created the previous season. Last Sunday, on the same site Silverstone, Fernando Alonso Ferrari won the Grand Prix of Great Britain, the 215th win for the Scuderia.

Before the race, the Scuderia Ferrari had commemorates this first F1 victory in the 375 car was protruding V12 engine with which Gonzalez imposed in 1951 for a lap at the hands of Alonso. Win it a few hours later is obviously coming put the icing on the cake for this sixtieth anniversary festivities!

Jose Froilan Gonzalez, now age 88, was not a Silverstone too tired he seems to make the displacement from Argentina. But he did not fail to emphasize the event giving several interviews in his country. One nicknamed "Pepe" Gonzalez picked up two wins in F1 and piloted in the field until 1960.

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