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Circuit Bremgarten track layout
Circuit Bremgarten track layout
Race details
Date 27 May 1951
Official name XI Großer Preis der Schweiz
Location Bremgarten, Bern, Switzerland
Course Temporary street/road circuit
Course length 7.28 km (4.524 miles)
Distance 42 laps, 305.760 km (190.008 miles)
Weather Overcast, rain
Pole position
Driver
  • Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio
Alfa Romeo
Time 2:35.9
Fastest lap
Driver Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio Alfa Romeo
Time 2:51.1
Podium
First
  • Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio
Alfa Romeo
Second
  • Italy Piero Taruffi
Ferrari
Third
  • Italy Nino Farina
Alfa Romeo
Lap leaders

The 1951 Swiss Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 27 May 1951 in Bern. The race was contested over 42 laps of the Bremgarten Circuit with it also being the opening race of the 1951 World Championship of Drivers. The race was the eleventh time that the Swiss Grand Prix was held with all of the races being held at Bremgarten.

After claiming pole position for the race, Argentine driver, Juan Manuel Fangio would go on win the race by 55 seconds over Italian driver, Piero Taruffi who drove for Ferrari. Fellow Italian driver, Nino Farina rounded out the podium in the second Alfa Romeo car.

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