# 1953 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: 9

## Calendar and winners
| Round | Grand Prix | Date | Circuit | Winner | Team |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Argentine Grand Prix | 1953-01-18 | Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari |
| 2 | Indianapolis 500 | 1953-05-30 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway | Bill Vukovich | Kurtis Kraft |
| 3 | Dutch Grand Prix | 1953-06-07 | Circuit Park Zandvoort | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari |
| 4 | Belgian Grand Prix | 1953-06-21 | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari |
| 5 | French Grand Prix | 1953-07-05 | Reims-Gueux | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari |
| 6 | British Grand Prix | 1953-07-18 | Silverstone Circuit | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari |
| 7 | German Grand Prix | 1953-08-02 | Nürburgring | Nino Farina | Ferrari |
| 8 | Swiss Grand Prix | 1953-08-23 | Circuit Bremgarten | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari |
| 9 | Italian Grand Prix | 1953-09-13 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | Juan Fangio | Maserati |

## Drivers' standings (final)
| Pos | Driver | Team | Points | Wins |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Alberto Ascari](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/ascari.md) | Ferrari | 34.5 | 5 |
| 2 | [Juan Fangio](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/fangio.md) | Maserati | 28 | 1 |
| 3 | [Nino Farina](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/farina.md) | Ferrari | 26 | 1 |
| 4 | [Mike Hawthorn](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/hawthorn.md) | Ferrari | 19 | 1 |
| 5 | [Luigi Villoresi](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/villoresi.md) | Ferrari | 17 | 0 |
| 6 | [José Froilán González](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/gonzalez.md) | Maserati | 13.5 | 0 |
| 7 | [Bill Vukovich](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/vukovich.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 9 | 1 |
| 8 | [Toulo de Graffenried](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/graffenried.md) | Maserati | 7 | 0 |
| 9 | [Felice Bonetto](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bonetto.md) | Maserati | 6.5 | 0 |
| 10 | [Art Cross](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/cross.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 6 | 0 |
| 11 | [Onofre Marimón](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/marimon.md) | Maserati | 4 | 0 |
| 12 | [Maurice Trintignant](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/trintignant.md) | Gordini | 4 | 0 |
| 13 | [Duane Carter](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/darter.md) | Lesovsky | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | [Sam Hanks](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/hanks.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | [Oscar Gálvez](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/galvez.md) | Maserati | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | [Jack McGrath](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/mcgrath.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | [Hermann Lang](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/lang.md) | Maserati | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | [Paul Russo](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/paul-russo.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 1.5 | 0 |
| 19 | [Fred Agabashian](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/agabashian.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 1.5 | 0 |
| - | [Stirling Moss](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/moss.md) | Cooper | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jean Behra](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/behra.md) | Gordini | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Roberto Mieres](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/mieres.md) | Gordini | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jimmy Daywalt](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/daywalt.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Harry Schell](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/schell.md) | Gordini | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Louis Rosier](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/rosier.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Ken Wharton](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/wharton.md) | Cooper | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Prince Bira](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bira.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jacques Swaters](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/swaters.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Eddie Johnson](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/johnson.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jim Rathmann](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/rathmann.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Luigi Musso](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/musso.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Sergio Mantovani](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/mantovani.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Peter Collins](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/collins.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [John Barber](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/john-barber.md) | Cooper | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Ernie McCoy](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/mccoy.md) | Stevens | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Max de Terra](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/terra.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Umberto Maglioli](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/maglioli.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Alan Brown](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/alan-brown.md) | Cooper | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Tony Bettenhausen](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bettenhausen.md) | Kuzma | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Gene Hartley](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/hartley.md) | Kuzma | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Chuck Stevenson](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/stevenson.md) | Kuzma | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Fred Wacker](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/wacker.md) | Gordini | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Peter Whitehead](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/whitehead.md) | Cooper | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Hans Herrmann](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/herrmann.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Albert Scherrer](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/scherrer.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Louis Chiron](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/chiron.md) | OSCA | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Paul Frère](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/frere.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jimmy Davies](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/davies.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Duke Nalon](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/nalon.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [André Pilette](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/andre-pilette.md) | Connaught | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Bob Gerard](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/gerard.md) | Cooper | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Rodney Nuckey](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/nuckey.md) | Cooper | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Johnny Claes](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/claes.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Bob Scott](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bob-scott.md) | Bromme | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Carl Scarborough](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/scarborough.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Theo Helfrich](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/helfrich.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Kenneth McAlpine](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/mcalpine.md) | Connaught | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Manny Ayulo](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/ayulo.md) | Kuzma | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Yves Cabantous](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/cabantous.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Hans von Stuck](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/hans-stuck.md) | AFM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jimmy Bryan](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bryan.md) | Schroeder | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Rudolf Krause](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/krause.md) | BMW | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Bill Holland](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/holland.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Ernst Klodwig](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/klodwig.md) | BMW | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Duke Dinsmore](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/dinsmore.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Andy Linden](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/linden.md) | Stevens | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Rodger Ward](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/ward.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Wolfgang Seidel](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/seidel.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Walt Faulkner](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/faulkner.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Johnny Mantz](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/mantz.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Chico Landi](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/landi.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Robert Manzon](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/manzon.md) | Gordini | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jimmy Stewart](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/jimmy-stewart.md) | Cooper | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Tony Rolt](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/rolt.md) | Connaught | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Lance Macklin](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/macklin.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Carlos Menditeguy](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/menditeguy.md) | Gordini | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Pablo Birger](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/birger.md) | Simca | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Adolfo Cruz](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/cruz.md) | Cooper | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jack Fairman](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/fairman.md) | Connaught | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Peter Hirt](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/hirt.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Roy Salvadori](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/salvadori.md) | Connaught | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Marshall Teague](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/teague.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Élie Bayol](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bayol.md) | OSCA | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Johnny Thomson](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/thomson.md) | Del Roy | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Travis Webb](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/webb.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jackie Holmes](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/holmes.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Georges Berger](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/georges-berger.md) | Simca | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Bob Sweikert](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/sweikert.md) | Kuzma | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Arthur Legat](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/legat.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Edgar Barth](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/barth.md) | EMW | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Mike Nazaruk](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/nazaruk.md) | Turner | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Pat Flaherty](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/flaherty.md) | Kuzma | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Ian Stewart](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/ian-stewart.md) | Connaught | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Oswald Karch](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/karch.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jerry Hoyt](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/hoyt.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Willi Heeks](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/heeks.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Duncan Hamilton](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/duncan-hamilton.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Piero Carini](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/carini.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Johnnie Parsons](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/parsons.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Don Freeland](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/freeland.md) | Watson | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Tony Crook](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/crook.md) | Cooper | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Theo Fitzau](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/fitzau.md) | AFM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Kurt Adolff](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/adolff.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [John Fitch](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/fitch.md) | HWM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Günther Bechem](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bechem.md) | AFM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Cal Niday](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/niday.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Erwin Bauer](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bauer.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Ernst Loof](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/loof.md) | Veritas | 0 | 0 |

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

[1952 season](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/1952.md) · [1954 season](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/1954.md)