# 1952 Formula 1 season

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World Champion: **Alberto Ascari** (Ferrari, Italy).

## Specs and regulations
- Engine: 4.5 L naturally aspirated or 1.5 L supercharged
- Points: 8 points for a win (8-6-4-3-2), plus one for the fastest lap until 1958
- Races: 8

## Calendar and winners
| Round | Grand Prix | Date | Circuit | Winner | Team |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Swiss Grand Prix | 1952-05-18 | Circuit Bremgarten | Piero Taruffi | Ferrari |
| 2 | Indianapolis 500 | 1952-05-30 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway | Troy Ruttman | Kuzma |
| 3 | Belgian Grand Prix | 1952-06-22 | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari |
| 4 | French Grand Prix | 1952-07-06 | Rouen-Les-Essarts | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari |
| 5 | British Grand Prix | 1952-07-19 | Silverstone Circuit | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari |
| 6 | German Grand Prix | 1952-08-03 | Nürburgring | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari |
| 7 | Dutch Grand Prix | 1952-08-17 | Circuit Park Zandvoort | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari |
| 8 | Italian Grand Prix | 1952-09-07 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari |

## Drivers' standings (final)
| Pos | Driver | Team | Points | Wins |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Alberto Ascari](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/ascari.md) | Ferrari | 36 | 6 |
| 2 | [Nino Farina](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/farina.md) | Ferrari | 24 | 0 |
| 3 | [Piero Taruffi](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/taruffi.md) | Ferrari | 22 | 1 |
| 4 | [Rudi Fischer](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/fischer.md) | Ferrari | 10 | 0 |
| 5 | [Mike Hawthorn](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/hawthorn.md) | Cooper | 10 | 0 |
| 6 | [Robert Manzon](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/manzon.md) | Gordini | 9 | 0 |
| 7 | [Troy Ruttman](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/ruttman.md) | Kuzma | 8 | 1 |
| 8 | [Luigi Villoresi](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/villoresi.md) | Ferrari | 8 | 0 |
| 9 | [José Froilán González](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/gonzalez.md) | Maserati | 6.5 | 0 |
| 10 | [Jim Rathmann](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/rathmann.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 6 | 0 |
| 11 | [Jean Behra](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/behra.md) | Gordini | 6 | 0 |
| 12 | [Sam Hanks](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/hanks.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 4 | 0 |
| 13 | [Ken Wharton](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/wharton.md) | Cooper | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | [Dennis Poore](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/poore.md) | Connaught | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | [Duane Carter](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/darter.md) | Lesovsky | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | [Alan Brown](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/alan-brown.md) | Cooper | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | [Maurice Trintignant](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/trintignant.md) | Gordini | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | [Paul Frère](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/frere.md) | Simca | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | [Felice Bonetto](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bonetto.md) | Maserati | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | [Art Cross](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/cross.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | [Eric Thompson](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/thompson.md) | Connaught | 2 | 0 |
| 22 | [Bill Vukovich](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/vukovich.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 1 | 0 |
| - | [Roger Laurent](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/laurent.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Toulo de Graffenried](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/graffenried.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [André Simon](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/simon.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Peter Collins](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/collins.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jimmy Bryan](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bryan.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Peter Hirt](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/hirt.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Charles de Tornaco](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/tornaco.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Duncan Hamilton](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/duncan-hamilton.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jimmy Reece](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/reece.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Reg Parnell](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/reg-parnell.md) | Cooper | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Fritz Riess](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/riess.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Lance Macklin](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/macklin.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Eric Brandon](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/brandon.md) | Cooper | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Chico Landi](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/landi.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Johnny Claes](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/claes.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Toni Ulmen](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/ulmen.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [George Connor](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/george-connor.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Philippe Étancelin](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/etancelin.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Roy Salvadori](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/salvadori.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Ken Downing](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/downing.md) | Connaught | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Cliff Griffith](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/griffith.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Helmut Niedermayr](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/niedermayr.md) | AFM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jan Flinterman](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/flinterman.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Prince Bira](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bira.md) | Gordini | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Peter Whitehead](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/whitehead.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Louis Rosier](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/rosier.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Johnnie Parsons](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/parsons.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Yves Cabantous](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/cabantous.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Eitel Cantoni](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/cantoni.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jack McGrath](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/mcgrath.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Hans Klenk](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/klenk.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jim Rigsby](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/rigsby.md) | Watson | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Franco Comotti](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/comotti.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Graham Whitehead](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/graham-whitehead.md) | Alta | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Ernst Klodwig](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/klodwig.md) | BMW | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Joe James](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/james.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Arthur Legat](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/legat.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Bill Schindler](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/schindler.md) | Stevens | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Robert O'Brien](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/obrien.md) | Simca | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Tony Gaze](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/gaze.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [George Fonder](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/fonder.md) | Sherman | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Kenneth McAlpine](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/mcalpine.md) | Connaught | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Eddie Johnson](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/johnson.md) | Trevis | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Harry Schell](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/schell.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Gino Bianco](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bianco.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Chuck Stevenson](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/stevenson.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Henry Banks](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/banks.md) | Lesovsky | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Manny Ayulo](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/ayulo.md) | Lesovsky | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Johnny McDowell](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/mcdowell.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Tony Crook](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/crook.md) | Frazer Nash | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Stirling Moss](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/moss.md) | Connaught | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Dries van der Lof](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/lof.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Willi Heeks](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/heeks.md) | AFM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Robin Montgomerie-Charrington](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/charrington.md) | Aston Butterworth | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Adolf Brudes](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/brudes.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [George Abecassis](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/abecassis.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Marcel Balsa](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/balsa.md) | BMW | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Hans von Stuck](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/hans-stuck.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Günther Bechem](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bechem.md) | BMW | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Piero Carini](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/carini.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Rudolf Krause](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/krause.md) | BMW | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Franco Rol](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/rol.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Max de Terra](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/terra.md) | Simca | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Rudolf Schoeller](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/schoeller.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Bill Aston](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/aston.md) | Aston Butterworth | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Travis Webb](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/webb.md) | Bromme | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Rodger Ward](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/ward.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Tony Bettenhausen](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bettenhausen.md) | Deidt | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Paul Pietsch](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/pietsch.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Élie Bayol](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bayol.md) | OSCA | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Duke Nalon](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/nalon.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Bob Sweikert](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/sweikert.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Fred Agabashian](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/agabashian.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Theo Helfrich](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/helfrich.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Gene Hartley](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/hartley.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [David Murray](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/murray.md) | Cooper | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Josef Peters](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/peters.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Bob Scott](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bob-scott.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Chet Miller](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/miller.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Bobby Ball](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/ball.md) | Stevens | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Andy Linden](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/linden.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |

## Constructors' standings (final)
The Constructors' Championship started in 1958.

[1951 season](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/1951.md) · [1953 season](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/1953.md)