Lap Ledger1950–2027 · every championship race

Car · Ferrari · 1952–1957

Ferrari 500

When Alfa withdrew after 1951 there were not enough Formula One cars left to fill a grid, so the 1952 and 1953 championships were run to Formula Two rules. Ferrari already had the best Formula Two car. Ascari won every championship race he entered in 1952 bar the Indianapolis 500, and all but the last in 1953: seven straight wins, a record that stood for sixty years until Vettel beat it in 2013.

Seasons
1952–1957
Entries
23
Wins
0
Poles
0
Fastest laps
0
Drivers' titles
2
Ferrari Tipo 500
Ferrari 500 F2 front-left Donington Grand Prix Collection · Morio · CC BY-SA 3.0

Why it mattered

The idea. A Formula Two car that won two World Championships because the championship came to it

What it did. Ascari's back-to-back titles, 1952 and 1953.

Designers
Aurelio Lampredi
Supersedes
—
Design life
1952–1953
Confidence
high

Specification

Chassis
Single-seater, tubular frame
Front suspension
Double wishbones, transverse semi-elliptic leaf spring, lever arm shock absorber
Rear suspension
De Dion axle, twin-trailing arms, transverse semi-elliptic leaf spring, lever arm shock absorber
Brakes
drum
Gearbox
Ferrari
Gears
4-speed
Tyres
Pirelli; Dunlop; Englebert
Fuel
Shell
Engine
Lampredi
Configuration
L4
Capacity
1,984 cc
Aspiration
naturally aspirated
Power
185 bhp
Power note
The 2.0-litre Formula Two engine; the related 625 F1 car took the same design out to 2,498 cc and 210-230 hp
Weight
560 kg
Wheelbase
2,197 mm
Track, front
1,308 mm
Track, rear
1,245 mm

A blank is a figure nobody published for this car. Where several teams quote the same number in a season it is usually the rule they were all built to rather than a measurement, so it is kept with the regulation limits instead of here.

0 wins can be traced to this chassis; its article publishes 14. Neither is wrong. A win counts here only where the entry list says which car the driver was in, and a team running two designs in a season does not always say. The unresolved seasons are listed below.

Seasons that cannot be attributed 2

Seasons that cannot be attributed
SeasonAlso entered by this constructor
1952ferrari-125+ferrari-166+ferrari-212+ferrari-375s
1953ferrari-212+ferrari-553
In these seasons the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced which round, so the results are left unattributed rather than guessed.

Every entry 23 entries

Every entry
SeasonGrand PrixDriverGridResultOut
1957Argentine Grand PrixAlejandro de Tomaso129Finished
1956German Grand PrixGiorgio Scarlatti17DNFEngine
1956Monaco Grand PrixGiorgio Scarlatti—DNQDNQ
1954Spanish Grand PrixJacques Swaters19DNFEngine
1954Swiss Grand PrixJacques Swaters168Finished
1954British Grand PrixReg Parnell14DNFEngine
1954Belgian Grand PrixJacques Swaters14DNFEngine
1953Italian Grand PrixLouis Rosier1716Finished
1953Swiss Grand PrixLouis Rosier14DNFSpun off
1953Swiss Grand PrixJacques Swaters13DNFSpun off
1953German Grand PrixJacques Swaters197Finished
1953German Grand PrixLouis Rosier2210Finished
1953British Grand PrixLouis Rosier2410Finished
1953French Grand PrixLouis Rosier108Finished
1953Belgian Grand PrixLouis Rosier138Finished
1953Belgian Grand PrixJacques Swaters—DNSDNS
1953Belgian Grand PrixCharles de Tornaco—DNSDNS
1953Dutch Grand PrixLouis Rosier87Finished
1952Italian Grand PrixCharles de Tornaco—DNQDNQ
1952Dutch Grand PrixCharles de Tornaco17DNFEngine
1952German Grand PrixRoger Laurent176Finished
1952British Grand PrixRoy Salvadori198Finished
1952Belgian Grand PrixCharles de Tornaco137Finished

Where this comes from

Constructor
Ferrari
Predecessor
212
Successor
553
Races (published)
19
Wins (published)
14
Poles (published)
13
Confidence
reference
Specification source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_Tipo_500
Register source
https://github.com/f1db/f1db