1952 Formula One season

The **1952 Formula One** season was the third of the championship. The champion was Alberto Ascari in a close battle.

## World Championship season review

|Rnd|Race|Date|Location|Winning driver|Constructor|Tyres|Report|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Swiss Grand Prix|May 18|Bremgarten|Piero Taruffi|Ferrari||Report||
|Indianapolis 500|May 30|Indianapolis|Troy Ruttman|Kuzma-Offenhauser||Report||
|Belgian Grand Prix|June 22|Spa-Francorchamps|Alberto Ascari|Ferrari||Report||
|French Grand Prix|July 6|Rouen-Les-Essarts|Alberto Ascari|Ferrari||Report||
|British Grand Prix|July 19|Silverstone|Alberto Ascari|Ferrari||Report||
|German Grand Prix|August 3|Nürburgring|Alberto Ascari|Ferrari||Report||
|Dutch Grand Prix|August 17|Zandvoort|Alberto Ascari|Ferrari||Report||
|Italian Grand Prix|September 7|Monza|Alberto Ascari|Ferrari||Report||

## 1952 Drivers Championship final standings

|valign="middle"|Pos.|valign="middle"|Driver|SUI|500|BEL|FRA|GBR|GER|NED|ITA|valign="middle"|Pts.|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 85%"||||||||||||||||||
|Alberto Ascari||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1**|align="right"|**36 (53.5)**|
|Nino Farina|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret / Ret†||bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|align="right"|**24 (27)**|
|Piero Taruffi|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|align="right"|**22**||
|Rudi Fischer|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11†|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**10**|||
|Mike Hawthorn|||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**10**|||
|Robert Manzon|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14|align="right"|**9**|
|Troy Ruttman||bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|||||||align="right"|**8**|||||||
|Luigi Villoresi|||||||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|align="right"|**8**||||||
|José Froilán González||||||||bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2**|align="right"|**6.5**|||||||
|Jim Rathmann||bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|||||||align="right"|**6**|||||||
|Jean Behra|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**6**||
|Sam Hanks||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|||||||align="right"|**4**|||||||
|Ken Wharton|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|align="right"|**3**||||
|Dennis Poore|||||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|align="right"|**3**||||||
|Duane Carter||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|||||||align="right"|**3**|||||||
|Alan Brown|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|22|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|15|align="right"|**2**||||
|Maurice Trintignant||||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**2**|||
|Paul Frère|||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**2**|||||
|Felice Bonetto||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|align="right"|**2**||||||
|Art Cross||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|||||||align="right"|**2**|||||||
|Eric Thompson|||||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5||||align="right"|**2**|||||||
|Bill Vukovich||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|17*|||||||align="right"|**1**|||||||
|Roger Laurent|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Toulo de Graffenried|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|19|||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|align="right"|**0**||||
|Peter Collins|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|align="right"|**0**|||
|Andre Simon|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†|||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|align="right"|**0**||||||
|Jimmy Bryan||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Peter Hirt|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11†|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Charles de Tornaco|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|align="right"|**0**|||||
|Duncan Hamilton|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Jimmy Reece||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Reg Parnell|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Fritz Riess||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Lance Macklin|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|WD||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|15||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|align="right"|**0**||
|Eric Brandon|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|20|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13|align="right"|**0**||||
|Chico Landi|||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9†|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|align="right"|**0**||||||
|Johnny Claes|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|align="right"|**0**|||
|Toni Ulmen|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|||align="right"|**0**||||||
|George Connor||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Philippe Etancelin||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Roy Salvadori|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Ken Downing|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Cliff Griffith||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Helmut Niedermayr||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Jan Flinterman|||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9†||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Prince Bira|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11||||align="right"|**0**||||
|Louis Rosier|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|align="right"|**0**||||
|Peter Whitehead||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|align="right"|**0**|||||
|Johnnie Parsons||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Yves Giraud Cabantous||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Eitel Cantoni|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|align="right"|**0**|||||
|Jack McGrath||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Hans Klenk||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Jim Rigsby||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Franco Comotti||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Graham Whitehead|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Ernst Klodwig||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Joe James||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Bill Schindler||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Robert O'Brien|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Tony Gaze|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|15||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|align="right"|**0**||||
|George Fonder||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|15|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Kenneth McAlpine|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|16|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**||||||
|Eddie Johnson||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|16|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Harry Schell|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|17||||align="right"|**0**|||||
|Gino Bianco|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|18|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**||||
|Chuck Stevenson||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|18|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Henry Banks||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|19|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Manny Ayulo||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|20|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Johnny McDowell||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|21|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Tony Crook|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|21||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Stirling Moss|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|WD||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||
|Piero Carini||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Bill Aston|||||bgcolor="#ffffff"|DNS|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|align="right"|**0**|||||
|Hans Stuck|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|align="right"|**0**||||||
|George Abecassis|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Max de Terra|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Spider Webb||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Rodger Ward||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Tony Bettenhausen||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Duke Nalon||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Fred Agabashian||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Bob Sweikert||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Gene Hartley||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Bob Scott||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Chet Miller||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Bobby Ball||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Andy Linden||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Robin Montgomerie-Charrington|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|David Murray|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Willi Heeks||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Adolf Brudes||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Marcel Balsa||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Bernd Nacke||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Rudolf Krause||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Rudolf Schoeller||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Paul Pietsch||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Theo Helfrich||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Josef Peters||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Dries van der Lof|||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Franco Rol||||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Elie Bayol||||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Alberto Crespo||||||||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Piero Dusio||||||||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|align="right"|**0**|||||||
|}|valign="top"|||||||||||||||||
- Fastest lap (1 point awarded)
- Multiple drivers set equal fastest lap times, thus sharing the 1 point.
- † Position shared between more drivers of the same car
- Only the best 4 results counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.

## Non-Championship race results

Formula One/Two Grand Prix races, which did not count towards the World Championship, also held in 1952.

|Race Name|Circuit|Date|Winning driver|Constructor|Report|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|XI Grande Prêmio Cidade do Rio de Janeiro|Gávea|January 20|José Froilán González|Ferrari|Report|
|II Gran Premio di Siracusa|Syracuse|March 16|Alberto Ascari|Ferrari|Report|
|VI Gran Premio del Valentino|Valentino Park|April 6|Luigi Villoresi|Ferrari|Report|
|IV Richmond Trophy|Goodwood|April 14|José Froilán González|Ferrari|Report|
|IV Lavant Cup|Goodwood|April 14|Mike Hawthorn|Cooper-Bristol|Report|
|XIII Grand Prix de Pau|Pau|April 14|Alberto Ascari|Ferrari|Report|
|I Ibsley Grand Prix|Ringwood|April 19|Mike Hawthorn|Cooper-Bristol|Report|
|X Grand Prix de Marseille|Marseille|April 27|Alberto Ascari|Ferrari|Report|
|IV BRDC International Trophy|Silverstone|May 10|Lance Macklin|HWM-Alta|Report|
|XIV Eläintarhanajot|Eläintarha|May 11|Roger Laurent|Talbot-Lago|Report|
|V Gran Premio di Napoli|Posillipo|May 11|Giuseppe Farina|Ferrari|Report|
|XVI Internationales ADAC Eifelrennen|Nürburgring|May 25|Rudi Fischer|Ferrari|Report|
|VI Grand Prix de Paris|Montlhéry|May 25|Piero Taruffi|Ferrari|Report|
|XIV Grand Prix de l'Albigeois|Albi|June 1|Louis Rosier|Ferrari|Report|
|XXII Grand Prix des Frontières|Chimay|June 1|Paul Frère|HWM-Alta|Report|
|VI Ulster Trophy|Dundrod|June 7|Piero Taruffi|Ferrari|Report|
|V Gran Premio dell'Autodromo di Monza|Monza|June 8|Giuseppe Farina|Ferrari|Report|
|IV Circuit du Lac|Aix-les-Bains|June 8|Jean Behra|Gordini|Report|
|I West Essex CC Race|Boreham|June 21|Reg Parnell|Cooper-Bristol|Report|
|XX Grand Prix de la Marne|Reims|June 29|Jean Behra|Gordini|Report|
|II Grand Prix de Sables d'Olonne|Sables|July 13|Luigi Villoresi|Ferrari|Report|
|I Grand Prix de Caen|Caen|July 27|Maurice Trintignant|Gordini|Report|
|II Daily Mail Trophy|Boreham|August 2|Luigi Villoresi|Ferrari|Report|
|XVI Grand Prix de Comminges|Comminges|August 10|André Simon|Ferrari|Report|
|I National Trophy|Turnberry|August 23|Mike Hawthorn|Connaught|Report|
|XI Grand Prix de la Baule|La Baule|August 24|Alberto Ascari|Ferrari|Report|
|III Gran Premio di Modena|Modena|September 14|Luigi Villoresi|Ferrari|Report|
|IV Circuit de Cadours|Cadours|September 14|Louis Rosier|Ferrari|Report|
|V Madgwick Cup|Goodwood|September 27|Ken Downing|Connaught|Report|
|VIII Internationales Avusrennen|AVUS|September 28|Rudi Fischer|Ferrari|Report|
|Joe Fry Memorial Trophy|Castle Combe|October 4|Roy Salvadori|Ferrari|Report|
|I Newcastle Journal Trophy|Charterhall|October 11|Dennis Poore|Connaught|Report|
|XII Grande Prémio da Cidade de Rio de Janeiro|Gávea|December 14|Henrique Casini|Ferrari|Report|