Race · Round 4 of 8 ·
1952 French Grand Prix
Alberto Ascari won for Ferrari from pole at Rouen-les-Essarts.
- Circuit
- Rouen-les-EssartsRouen, France
- Winner
- Alberto AscariFerrari
- Pole
- Alberto Ascari
- Fastest lap
- Alberto Ascari
- Entries
- 2113 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
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Chassis | Grid | Laps | Out | Points | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari | — | 1 | 77 | Finished | 9 | fastest lap |
| 2 | Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina | Ferrari | — | 2 | 76 | Finished | 6 | |
| 3 | Piero Taruffi | Ferrari | — | 3 | 75 | Finished | 4 | |
| 4 | Robert Manzon | Gordini | — | 5 | 74 | Finished | 3 | |
| 5 | Maurice Trintignant | Gordini | — | 6 | 72 | Finished | 2 | |
| 6 | Peter Collins | HWM | — | 8 | 70 | Finished | 0 | |
| 7 | Jean Behra | Gordini | — | 4 | 70 | Finished | 0 | |
| 8 | Philippe Étancelin | Maserati | A6GCM | 18 | 70 | Finished | 0 | |
| 9 | Lance Macklin | HWM | — | 14 | 70 | Finished | 0 | |
| 10 | Yves Giraud-Cabantous | HWM | — | 10 | 68 | Finished | 0 | |
| 11 | Rudi Fischer shared | Ferrari | — | 17 | 66 | Engine | 0 | |
| 11 | Peter Hirt shared | Ferrari | — | — | — | Finished | 0 | |
| 12 | Franco Comotti | Ferrari | 166 | 16 | 63 | Finished | 0 | |
| DNF | Birabongse Bhanudej | Gordini | — | 7 | 56 | Axle | 0 | |
| DNF | Mike Hawthorn | Cooper | T20 | 15 | 51 | Ignition | 0 | |
| DNF | Emmanuel de Graffenried | Maserati | 4CLT/48 | 12 | 34 | Brakes | 0 | |
| DNF | Peter Whitehead | Alta | F2 | 13 | 26 | Clutch | 0 | |
| DNF | Louis Rosier | Ferrari | — | 9 | 17 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Johnny Claes | Simca-Gordini | T15 | 20 | 15 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Harry Schell | Maserati | 4CLT/48 | 11 | 7 | DNF | 0 | |
| DNF | Piero Carini | Ferrari | 166 | 19 | 2 | Engine | 0 |
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
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.
1 entry with no recorded grid slot or lap count is in the classification and not drawn.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Time | Gap | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari | 8 | 2:14.800 | — | — |
| 2 | Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina | Ferrari | 10 | 2:16.200 | +1.400 | +1.400 |
| 3 | Piero Taruffi | Ferrari | 12 | 2:17.100 | +2.300 | +0.900 |
| 4 | Jean Behra | Gordini | 4 | 2:19.300 | +4.500 | +2.200 |
| 5 | Robert Manzon | Gordini | 2 | 2:20.400 | +5.600 | +1.100 |
| 6 | Maurice Trintignant | Gordini | 44 | 2:21.600 | +6.800 | +1.200 |
| 7 | Peter Collins | HWM | 22 | 2:21.900 | +7.100 | +0.300 |
| 8 | Birabongse Bhanudej | Gordini | 6 | 2:23.000 | +8.200 | +1.100 |
| 9 | Louis Rosier | Ferrari | 14 | 2:27.000 | +12.200 | +4.000 |
| 10 | Yves Giraud-Cabantous | HWM | 24 | 2:27.500 | +12.700 | +0.500 |
| 11 | Emmanuel de Graffenried | Maserati | 16 | 2:28.600 | +13.800 | +1.100 |
| 12 | Harry Schell | Maserati | 18 | 2:29.000 | +14.200 | +0.400 |
| 13 | Peter Whitehead | Alta | 26 | 2:29.500 | +14.700 | +0.500 |
| 14 | Lance Macklin | HWM | 20 | 2:30.900 | +16.100 | +1.400 |
| 15 | Mike Hawthorn | Cooper | 42 | 2:32.000 | +17.200 | +1.100 |
| 16 | Philippe Étancelin | Maserati | 28 | 2:33.700 | +18.900 | +1.700 |
| 17 | Rudi Fischer | Ferrari | 36 | 2:34.600 | +19.800 | +0.900 |
| 18 | Franco Comotti | Ferrari | 38 | 2:36.000 | +21.200 | +1.400 |
| 19 | Piero Carini | Ferrari | 40 | 2:37.700 | +22.900 | +1.700 |
| 20 | Johnny Claes | Simca-Gordini | 32 | 2:39.600 | +24.800 | +1.900 |
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.
Where this comes from
- Round
- 4 of 1952
- Grand Prix
- French Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- —
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- Ferrari
- Entrant
- Ferrari
- Confidence
- reference
No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.