1951 Swiss Grand Prix

The 1951 Swiss Grand Prix more commonly known as the XI Großer Preis der Schweiz was a Formula One race that was held in Switzerland on the 27 May 1951. It was the first round of the 1951 Formula One season with it being the eleventh edition of the Swiss Grand Prix.

Background
After the first season of the World Championship was held which saw a complete Alfa Romeo domination, talks about how to bring them back to the fold started. For Ferrari, they brought the Ferrari 375 with the biggest name being Juan Manuel Fangio who after the terrible luck, the previous season moved to Ferrari. This meant for Alfa Romeo, they would only have three drivers compete in the opening round. Fagioli had retired from Formula One which meant that Swiss driver, Toulo de Graffenried would join the Alfa Romeo squad as he joined Consalvo Sanesi and Farina.

Two big teams that wasn't competing in the 1951 season was Maserati and Talbot-Logo with the reasoning being that the domination of the Alfa Romeo especially with the Ferrari being a closed second. For the Maserati cars, Louis Chiron and rookie driver Peter Hirt would line-up in the Maserati's with Harry Schell being a late out due to competing at the 1951 Indianapolis 500 that was occurring on the same weekend. For Talbot-Logo, they would still have private drivers that were mainly French with the lone Belgian in Johnny Claes and Argentinean driver José Froilán González.