Race · Round 7 of 8 · 17 August 1952

1952 Dutch Grand Prix

Alberto Ascari won for Ferrari from pole at Circuit Zandvoort. With this win, Alberto Ascari set a new record of 7 championship Grand Prix wins.

Circuit: Circuit ZandvoortZandvoort, Netherlands
Winner: Alberto AscariFerrari
Pole: Alberto Ascari
Fastest lap: Alberto Ascari
Entries: 1810 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	—	1	90	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	Ferrari	—	2	90	Finished	6
3	Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari	—	4	90	Finished	4
4	Mike Hawthorn	Cooper	T20	3	88	Finished	3
5	Robert Manzon	Gordini	—	8	87	Finished	2
6	Maurice Trintignant	Gordini	—	5	87	Finished	0
7	Duncan Hamilton	HWM	—	10	85	Finished	0
8	Lance Macklin	HWM	—	9	84	Finished	0
9	Chico Landi shared	Maserati	A6GCM	16	83	Finished	0
9	Jan Flinterman shared	Maserati	A6GCM	15	7	Differential	0
DNF	Ken Wharton	Frazer-Nash	FN48	7	76	Wheel bearing	0
DNF	Sir Stirling Moss	ERA	G	18	73	Engine	0
NC	Dries van der Lof	HWM	—	14	70	NC	0
DNF	Ken Downing	Connaught	A	13	27	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Charles de Tornaco	Ferrari	500	17	19	Engine	0
DNF	Paul Frère	Simca-Gordini	T15	11	15	Clutch	0
DNF	Jean Behra	Gordini	—	6	10	Electrical	0
DNF	Gino Bianco	Maserati	A6GCM	12	4	Axle	0

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

F1DB layout zandvoort-1 · 4.193 km · 19 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	1	1	90
Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	2	2	90
Luigi Villoresi	4	3	90
Mike Hawthorn	3	4	88
Robert Manzon	8	5	87
Maurice Trintignant	5	6	87
Duncan Hamilton	10	7	85
Lance Macklin	9	8	84
Chico Landi shared	16	9	83
Jan Flinterman shared	15	9	7
Ken Wharton	7	DNF	76
Sir Stirling Moss	18	DNF	73
Dries van der Lof	14	NC	70
Ken Downing	13	DNF	27
Charles de Tornaco	17	DNF	19
Paul Frère	11	DNF	15
Jean Behra	6	DNF	10
Gino Bianco	12	DNF	4

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari	2	1:46.500	—	—
2	Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	Ferrari	4	1:48.600	+2.100	+2.100
3	Mike Hawthorn	Cooper	32	1:51.600	+5.100	+3.000
4	Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari	6	1:51.800	+5.300	+0.200
5	Maurice Trintignant	Gordini	12	1:53.000	+6.500	+1.200
6	Jean Behra	Gordini	8	1:54.500	+8.000	+1.500
7	Ken Wharton	Frazer-Nash	34	1:54.700	+8.200	+0.200
8	Robert Manzon	Gordini	10	1:54.800	+8.300	+0.100
9	Lance Macklin	HWM	26	1:55.200	+8.700	+0.400
10	Duncan Hamilton	HWM	28	1:55.800	+9.300	+0.600
11	Paul Frère	Simca-Gordini	14	1:58.200	+11.700	+2.400
12	Gino Bianco	Maserati	18	1:58.200	+11.700	+0.000
13	Ken Downing	Connaught	22	1:58.600	+12.100	+0.400
14	Dries van der Lof	HWM	30	1:59.400	+12.900	+0.800
15	Jan Flinterman	Maserati	20	2:01.800	+15.300	+2.400
16	Chico Landi	Maserati	16	2:02.100	+15.600	+0.300
17	Charles de Tornaco	Ferrari	24	2:03.700	+17.200	+1.600
18	Sir Stirling Moss	ERA	36	2:04.500	+18.000	+0.800

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

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6 more photographs

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The cars in this race

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Where this comes from

Round: 7 of 1952
Grand Prix: Dutch Grand Prix
Dates: 17 Aug 1952
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.