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Alberto Ascari
Formula One World Championship career

Born	(1918-07-13)13 July 1918
Died	26 May 1955(1955-05-26) (aged 36)
Nationality	Italian
Active years	1950 – 1955
Teams	Ferrari, Maserati, Lancia
Races	33 (32 starts)
Championships	2 (1952, 1953)
Wins	13
Podiums	17
Career points	107 ⁹⁄₁₄ (140 ¹⁄₇)^[1]
Pole positions	14
Fastest laps	12
First race	1950 Monaco Grand Prix
First win	1951 German Grand Prix
Last win	1953 Swiss Grand Prix
Last race	1955 Monaco Grand Prix

Alberto Ascari (13 July 1918 – 26 May 1955) was an Italian racing driver and twice Formula One World Champion. He is one of only two Italian Formula One World Champions in the history of the sport, and the only one to win his two championships in a Ferrari.

1 Early life
2 Formula One/World Championship career
3 Death
4 Legacy
5 Complete World Championship results
- 5.1 Formula One records
6 Indy 500 results
7 References
8 Other references
9 External links

Early life [link]

Born in Milan, Ascari was the son of Antonio Ascari, a talented Grand Prix motor racing star in the 1920s, racing Alfa Romeos. Antonio was killed while leading the French Grand Prix in 1925 but the younger Ascari had an interest in racing in spite of it. He raced motorcycles in his earlier years; it was after he entered the prestigious Mille Miglia in a Ferrari sports car that he eventually started racing on four wheels regularly.

Formula One/World Championship career [link]

Following the end of World War II Alberto Ascari began racing in Grands Prix with Maserati. His team-mate was Luigi Villoresi, who would become a mentor and friend to Ascari. Formula One regulations were introduced by the FIA in 1946, with the aim of eventually replacing the pre-war Grand Prix structure. During the next four transitional years, Ascari was at the top of his game, winning numerous events around Europe. He won his first Grand Prix race in Sanremo, Italy in 1948 and took second place in the British Grand Prix the same year. Ascari won another race with the team the following year. His biggest success came after he joined Villoresi on the Ferrari team; he won three more races that year with them. The first Formula One World Championship season took place in 1950, and the Ferrari team made its World Championship debut at Monte Carlo with Ascari, Villoresi, and the popular French driver Raymond Sommer on the team. Ascari finished 2nd in the race and later in the year shared a 2nd place at the first World Championship race at Monza. He was only 5th in the championship standings however. He won his first World Championship F1 race the following season on the Nürburgring circuit and added a win at Monza, finishing runner up in the championship to Juan Manuel Fangio.

With success in Europe, Enzo Ferrari supplied a car for Ascari in the Indianapolis 500, at the time a World Championship event, in 1952. He was the only European driver to race at Indy in its 11 years on the World Championship schedule, but his day ended after 40 laps. That was the only World Championship event in which he competed that season that he didn't win. Ascari's Ferrari Tipo 500 dominated 1952, winning all six races in Europe that season and recording the fastest lap in each race. He scored the maximum amount of points a driver could earn, since only the best four of eight scores counted towards the world championship.

He won three more consecutive races to start the 1953 season, giving him nine straight wins (not counting Indy) before his streak ended when he finished 4th in France, although it was a close 4th as the race was highly competitive. He earned two more wins later in the year to give himself a second consecutive World Championship. Ascari switched to Maserati and Lancia in 1954 but did not continue his dominance as he failed to finish a race in his four attempts at F1, although he made up for it by winning the Mille Miglia.

Death [link]

His 1955 season started similarly, retiring twice more, the latter of which was an incident in Monaco where he crashed into the harbour after missing a chicane. Four days later, on 26 May, he went to Monza to watch his friend Eugenio Castellotti test a Ferrari 750 Monza sports car, which they were to co-race in the Supercortemaggiore 1000 km race (having been given special dispensation by Lancia). Just before going home to have lunch with his wife Mietta, he decided to try a few laps with the Ferrari. In shirt sleeves, ordinary trousers and Castellotti’s helmet he set off. As he emerged from a fast curve on the third lap the car unaccountably skidded, turned on its nose and somersaulted twice. Thrown out on the track, Ascari suffered multiple injuries and died a few minutes later.

The crash occurred on the Curva di Vialone, one of the track's challenging high-speed corners. The corner where the accident happened, renamed in his honour, no longer exists, having been replaced with a chicane, the Variante Ascari.

Legend has it that Ascari was a very superstitious man and would always insist on using his distinct pale blue crash helmet. On the day he died, his helmet wasn't available, so he borrowed Castellotti's white one. The helmet was at the repair shop, having a new chin strap fitted after the incident in Monte Carlo which saw Ascari's Lancia take a dip in the Monaco harbour.

The eerie similarities between the deaths of Alberto and his father still haunt his fans to this day. Alberto Ascari died on 26 May 1955, at the age of 36. Antonio Ascari was also 36 when he died, on 26 July 1925 (Alberto was only 4 days older). Both father and son had won 13 championship Grand Prix and drove car number 26. Both were killed four days after surviving serious accidents and on the 26th day of the month. Both had crashed fatally at the exit of fast left-hand corners and both left behind a wife and two children. Fans from all across the globe mourned as Alberto Ascari was laid to rest next to the grave of his father in the Cimitero Monumentale cemetery in Milan, to be forever remembered as one of the greatest racers of all time.

A distraught Mietta Ascari told Enzo Ferrari that "were it not for their children she would gladly have joined her beloved Alberto in heaven".

Another curiosity is that the only other driver to crash into the harbour at Monaco in the circuit's history, Paul Hawkins, also died on 26 May. Hawkins crashed into the harbour 10 years after Ascari, before dying when his Lola crashed into a tree at a Tourist Trophy race at Oulton Park in 1969.

Legacy [link]

The British manufacturer, Ascari Cars of the Ascari KZ1 supercar is named in his honour.

In 1992, he was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.

There is a street in Rome (in the EUR region) named in his honour.

The Ascari Chicane at Autodromo Nazionale Monza is named after him.

Italian-born American racing legend Mario Andretti counts Ascari as one of his racing heroes, having watched him at the Monza circuit in his youth.

Complete World Championship results [link]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	WDC	Points^[1]
1950	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 125	Ferrari V12	GBR	MON 2	500	SUI Ret		FRA DNS				5th	11
		Ferrari 125/275						BEL 5
		Ferrari 375								ITA 2 *
1951	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 375	Ferrari V12	SUI 6	500	BEL 2	FRA 2 †	GBR Ret	GER 1	ITA 1	ESP 4		2nd	25 (28)
1952	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 375	Ferrari V12		500 Ret								1st	36 (53 ¹⁄₂)
1952	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 500	Ferrari Straight-4	SUI		BEL 1	FRA 1	GBR 1	GER 1	NED 1	ITA 1		1st	36 (53 ¹⁄₂)
1953	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 500	Ferrari Straight-4	ARG 1	500	NED 1	BEL 1	FRA 4	GBR 1	GER 8 ‡	SUI 1	ITA Ret	1st	34 ¹⁄₂ (46 ¹⁄₂)
1954	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati Straight-6	ARG	500	BEL	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER	SUI			25th	1 ¹⁄₇
	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 625	Ferrari Straight-4								ITA Ret
	Scuderia Lancia	Lancia D50	Lancia V8									ESP Ret
1955	Scuderia Lancia	Lancia D50	Lancia V8	ARG Ret	MON Ret	500	BEL	NED	GBR	ITA			NC	0

* Indicates shared drive with Dorino Serafini

† Indicates shared drive with José Froilán González

‡ Indicates shared drive with Luigi Villoresi

Formula One records [link]

Ascari holds the following Formula One records:

Record	Achieved
Highest percentage of wins in a season	75% race wins in 1952, winning 6 out of 8 races
Most consecutive wins	7 wins: Belgian, French, British, German, Dutch, Italian / '53 Argentine^{[N 1]}^{[N 2]}
Highest percentage of fastest laps in a season	75% fastest laps in 1952, setting the fastest lap in 6 out of 8 races
Most consecutive fastest laps	7 fastest laps: Belgian, French, British, German, Dutch, Italian / '53 Argentine
Highest percentage of possible championship points in a season	100% in 1952^{[N 3]}^{[N 4]}
Most hat tricks (pole, win & fastest lap in same race) in a season	5 in 1952^{[N 5]}
Most consecutive laps in the lead	304 laps in the lead between 1952 Belgian Grand Prix and 1952 Dutch Grand Prix

Footnotes

^ Some sources extend Ascari's sequence to 9 wins, by including the subsequent 1953 Dutch and Belgian Grands Prix, and discounting the intervening 1953 Indianapolis 500, on the basis that although the Indianapolis 500 was part of the Drivers' Championship from 1950 to 1960, very few of the European drivers and teams ever competed there.
^ Record shared with Michael Schumacher (Europe 2004–Hungary 2004).
^ In 1952, only the best four of eight scores counted towards the world championship.
^ Record shared with Jim Clark in 1963 and 1965.
^ Record shared with Michael Schumacher in 2004.

Indy 500 results [link]

Year^[2]	Car	Start	Qual	Rank	Finish	Laps	Led	Retired
1952	12	19	134.308	25	31	40	0	Spun T4
Totals						40	0

Starts	1
Poles	0
Front Row	0
Wins	0
Top 5	0
Top 10	0
Retired	1

Ascari was the only regular F1 driver to participate in the Indianapolis 500 while the race was part of the FIA World Championship (1950–1960).

References [link]

^ ^a ^b Up until 1990, not all points scored by a driver contributed to their final World Championship tally (see list of points scoring systems for more information). Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.
^ Alberto Ascari Indy 500 Race Stats

Other references [link]

"Most Fastest Laps in Series in One Season". Formula 1 Review. http://www.formula1review.com/content/view/341/30/. Retrieved 10 October 2006.

External links [link]

Grand Prix History – Hall of Fame, Alberto Ascari
Alberto Ascari statistics
Alberto Ascari at Find a Grave

Sporting positions
Preceded by inaugural winner	BRDC International Trophy winner 1949	Succeeded by Giuseppe Farina
Preceded by Juan Manuel Fangio	Formula One World Champion 1952–1953	Succeeded by Juan Manuel Fangio
Records
Preceded by Reg Parnell 38 years, 315 days (1950 British GP)	Youngest Driver to score a Podium Position in Formula One 31 years, 312 days (1950 Monaco Grand Prix)	Succeeded by Manny Ayulo 29 years, 221 days (1951 Indianapolis 500)
Preceded by Reg Parnell 38 years, 315 days (1950 British GP)	Youngest Driver to score Points in Formula One 31 years, 312 days (1950 Monaco Grand Prix)	Succeeded by Cecil Green 30 years, 242 days (1950 Indianapolis 500)
Preceded by Juan Manuel Fangio 6 wins (1950 – 1952)	Most Grand Prix wins 13 wins, 7th at the 1952 Dutch GP	Succeeded by Juan Manuel Fangio 24 wins, 14th at the 1955 Argentine GP
Preceded by Juan Manuel Fangio 40 years, 126 days (1951 season)	Youngest Formula One World Drivers' Champion 34 years, 16 days (1952 season)	Succeeded by Mike Hawthorn 29 years, 192 days (1958 season)

Formula One World Drivers' Champions

1950 G. Farina
1951 J.M. Fangio
1952 A. Ascari
1953 A. Ascari
1954 J.M. Fangio
1955 J.M. Fangio
1956 J.M. Fangio
1957 J.M. Fangio
1958 M. Hawthorn
1959 J. Brabham

1960 J. Brabham
1961 P. Hill
1962 G. Hill
1963 J. Clark
1964 J. Surtees
1965 J. Clark
1966 J. Brabham
1967 D. Hulme
1968 G. Hill
1969 J. Stewart

1970 J. Rindt
1971 J. Stewart
1972 E. Fittipaldi
1973 J. Stewart
1974 E. Fittipaldi
1975 N. Lauda
1976 J. Hunt
1977 N. Lauda
1978 M. Andretti
1979 J. Scheckter

1980 A. Jones
1981 N. Piquet
1982 K. Rosberg
1983 N. Piquet
1984 N. Lauda
1985 A. Prost
1986 A. Prost
1987 N. Piquet
1988 A. Senna
1989 A. Prost

1990 A. Senna
1991 A. Senna
1992 N. Mansell
1993 A. Prost
1994 M. Schumacher
1995 M. Schumacher
1996 D. Hill
1997 J. Villeneuve
1998 M. Häkkinen
1999 M. Häkkinen

2000 M. Schumacher
2001 M. Schumacher
2002 M. Schumacher
2003 M. Schumacher
2004 M. Schumacher
2005 F. Alonso
2006 F. Alonso
2007 K. Räikkönen
2008 L. Hamilton
2009 J. Button

2010 S. Vettel
2011 S. Vettel

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Early life [link]

Formula One/World Championship career [link]

Death [link]

Legacy [link]

Complete World Championship results [link]

Formula One records [link]

Indy 500 results [link]

References [link]

Other references [link]

External links [link]

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