The end of an era in Formula OneThe last surviving driver of F1's inaugural World Championship Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1950 has died.
Switzerland's 'Toulo' Emmanuel de Graffenried, who was most successful in the early post-war period and won the 1949 British
Grand Prix, was 92.
He raced in F1 until 1956 but returned to the paddocks in the 1970s as an ambassador for Philip Morris' cigarette brand Marlboro.
Source GMM CAPSIS International
