Race · Round 7 of 8 · 16 September 1951

1951 Italian Grand Prix

Alberto Ascari won for Ferrari from 3rd on the grid at Autodromo Nazionale Monza. It was the first championship podium for Felice Bonetto.

Circuit: Autodromo Nazionale MonzaMonza, Italy
Winner: Alberto AscariFerrari
Pole: Juan Manuel Fangio
Fastest lap: Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina
Entries: 2410 classified

This race includes a shared drive. Two drivers took turns in one car and both are classified in the same position, so a position below appears twice. That is correct, not a duplicated row.

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari	375	3	80	Finished	8
2	Jose Froilan Gonzalez	Ferrari	375	4	80	Finished	6
3	Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina shared	Alfa Romeo	159	2	6	Engine	3	fastest lap
3	Felice Bonetto shared	Alfa Romeo	159	7	79	Finished	2
4	Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari	375	5	79	Finished	3
5	Piero Taruffi	Ferrari	375	6	78	Finished	2
6	André Simon	Simca-Gordini	—	11	74	Finished	0
7	Louis Rosier	Talbot-Lago	T26C	15	73	Finished	0
8	Yves Giraud-Cabantous	Talbot-Lago	T26C	14	72	Finished	0
9	Franco Rol	O.S.C.A.	4500G	18	67	Finished	0
DNF	Juan Manuel Fangio	Alfa Romeo	159	1	39	Engine	0
DNF	Maurice Trintignant	Simca-Gordini	—	12	29	Engine	0
DNF	Robert Manzon	Simca-Gordini	—	13	29	Engine	0
DNF	Louis Chiron	Talbot-Lago	T26C	17	23	Ignition	0
DNF	Pierre Levegh	Talbot-Lago	T26C	20	9	Engine	0
DNF	Jacques Swaters	Talbot-Lago	T26C	22	7	Overheating	0
DNF	Johnny Claes	Talbot-Lago	T26C	21	4	Oil pump	0
DNF	Emmanuel de Graffenried	Alfa Romeo	159	9	1	Compressor	0
DNF	Peter Whitehead	Ferrari	125	19	1	Magneto	0
DNF	Chico Landi	Ferrari	375	16	1	Transmission	0
DNS	Reg Parnell	BRM	P15	8	—	DNS	0
DNS	Ken Richardson	BRM	P15	10	—	DNS	0
DNS	Rudi Fischer	Ferrari	212	—	—	DNS	0
DNS	Hans Stuck	BRM	P15	—	—	Reserve driver	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout monza-1 · 6.3 km · 5 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap. Drivers who shared a car have a line each.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Alberto Ascari	3	1	80
Jose Froilan Gonzalez	4	2	80
Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina shared	2	3	6
Felice Bonetto shared	7	3	79
Luigi Villoresi	5	4	79
Piero Taruffi	6	5	78
André Simon	11	6	74
Louis Rosier	15	7	73
Yves Giraud-Cabantous	14	8	72
Franco Rol	18	9	67
Juan Manuel Fangio	1	DNF	39
Maurice Trintignant	12	DNF	29
Robert Manzon	13	DNF	29
Louis Chiron	17	DNF	23
Pierre Levegh	20	DNF	9
Jacques Swaters	22	DNF	7
Johnny Claes	21	DNF	4
Emmanuel de Graffenried	9	DNF	1
Peter Whitehead	19	DNF	1
Chico Landi	16	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Juan Manuel Fangio	Alfa Romeo	38	1:53.200	—	—
2	Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	Alfa Romeo	34	1:53.900	+0.700	+0.700
3	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari	2	1:55.100	+1.900	+1.200
4	Jose Froilan Gonzalez	Ferrari	6	1:55.900	+2.700	+0.800
5	Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari	4	1:57.900	+4.700	+2.000
6	Piero Taruffi	Ferrari	8	1:58.200	+5.000	+0.300
7	Felice Bonetto	Alfa Romeo	40	1:58.300	+5.100	+0.100
8	Reg Parnell	BRM	30	2:02.200	+9.000	+3.900
9	Emmanuel de Graffenried	Alfa Romeo	36	2:05.200	+12.000	+3.000
10	Ken Richardson	BRM	32	2:05.600	+12.400	+0.400
11	André Simon	Simca-Gordini	48	2:08.000	+14.800	+2.400
12	Maurice Trintignant	Simca-Gordini	50	2:08.900	+15.700	+0.900
13	Robert Manzon	Simca-Gordini	46	2:09.000	+15.800	+0.100
14	Yves Giraud-Cabantous	Talbot-Lago	24	2:09.300	+16.100	+0.300
15	Louis Rosier	Talbot-Lago	18	2:10.800	+17.600	+1.500
16	Chico Landi	Ferrari	12	2:11.200	+18.000	+0.400
17	Louis Chiron	Talbot-Lago	20	2:12.100	+18.900	+0.900
18	Franco Rol	O.S.C.A.	44	2:13.400	+20.200	+1.300
19	Peter Whitehead	Ferrari	16	2:16.200	+23.000	+2.800
20	Pierre Levegh	Talbot-Lago	22	2:16.500	+23.300	+0.300
21	Johnny Claes	Talbot-Lago	26	2:18.600	+25.400	+2.100
22	Jacques Swaters	Talbot-Lago	28	2:18.800	+25.600	+0.200

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

Photographs from this race

Filed on Wikimedia Commons under this race's own category, each shown with the photographer and licence its terms require. The filing is the Commons editors' and has not been checked here.

Everything filed under 1951 Italian Grand Prix on Wikimedia Commons

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Alfa Romeo 158/159 Alfetta
Alfa-Romeo-159-(1951) · Lennart Coopmans · CC BY-SA 2.5

Where this comes from

Round: 7 of 1951
Grand Prix: Italian Grand Prix
Dates: 16 Sep 1951
Layout raced: Road course · 6.3 km
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.