Giuseppe Farina and Alfa Romeo French Grand Prix Rheims A qualified doctor of engineering Farina won the first official Formula World Drivers Championship in winning three Grands Prix in the process driving for Alfa Romeo His career began in and he notched up a number of victories in Grands Prix either side of WWII He switched to Ferrari in where he remained until the end of his career which came in after he had suffered bad crashes at Monza and in the Mille Miglia In Farina was killed in a road accident in the Alps while driving to the French Grand Prix