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1949 British Grand Prix
Race details
Date 14 May 1949 (1949-05-14)
Official name RAC British Grand Prix
Location Silverstone Circuit
Silverstone, England
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 4.828 km (3.000 miles)
Distance 100 laps, 482.8 km (300.0 miles)
Attendance 120,000[1]
Pole position
Driver
  • Italy Luigi Villoresi
Maserati
Time 2:09.8
Fastest lap
Driver Thailand B. Bira Maserati
Time 2:10.4
Podium
First
  • Switzerland Emmanuel de Graffenried
Maserati
Second
  • United Kingdom Bob Gerard
ERA
Third
  • France Louis Rosier
Talbot-Lago-Talbot

The 1949 British Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race which was held at Silverstone on 14 May 1949. The race was won by Emmanuel de Graffenried driving a Maserati 4CLT.[2][3]

  1. ^ "British Grand Prix". Belfast Telegraph. 14 May 1949. Retrieved 9 July 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ "II British Grand Prix • STATS F1".
  3. ^ "1949 British Grand Prix".

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