Race · Round 1 of 9 ·
1953 Argentine Grand Prix
Alberto Ascari won for Ferrari from pole at Autodromo Oscar Galvez. With this win, Alberto Ascari set a new record of 9 championship Grand Prix wins.
- Circuit
- Autodromo Oscar GalvezBuenos Aires, Argentina
- Winner
- Alberto AscariFerrari
- Pole
- Alberto Ascari
- Fastest lap
- Alberto Ascari
- Entries
- 1710 classified
Classification
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Chassis | Grid | Laps | Out | Points | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari | — | 1 | 97 | Finished | 9 | fastest lap |
| 2 | Luigi Villoresi | Ferrari | — | 3 | 96 | Finished | 6 | |
| 3 | Jose Froilan Gonzalez | Maserati | A6GCM | 5 | 96 | Finished | 4 | |
| 4 | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | — | 6 | 96 | Finished | 3 | |
| 5 | Oscar Alfredo Gálvez | Maserati | A6GCM | 9 | 96 | Finished | 2 | |
| 6 | Jean Behra | Gordini | T16 | 11 | 94 | Finished | 0 | |
| 7 | Maurice Trintignant shared | Gordini | T16 | 7 | 91 | Finished | 0 | |
| 7 | Harry Schell shared | Gordini | T16 | — | — | Finished | 0 | |
| 8 | John Barber | Cooper | — | 16 | 90 | Finished | 0 | |
| 9 | Alan Brown | Cooper | — | 12 | 87 | Finished | 0 | |
| DNF | Robert Manzon | Gordini | T16 | 8 | 67 | Wheel | 0 | |
| DNF | Juan Manuel Fangio | Maserati | A6GCM | 2 | 36 | Transmission | 0 | |
| DNF | Felice Bonetto | Maserati | A6GCM | 15 | 31 | Transmission | 0 | |
| DNF | Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina | Ferrari | — | 4 | 30 | Accident | 0 | |
| DNF | Carlos Menditeguy | Gordini | T16 | 10 | 24 | Gearbox | 0 | |
| DNF | Pablo Birger | Simca-Gordini | T15 | 14 | 21 | Differential | 0 | |
| DNF | Adolfo Schwelm Cruz | Cooper | — | 13 | 20 | Wheel | 0 |
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.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Time | Gap | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari | 10 | 1:55.400 | — | — |
| 2 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Maserati | 2 | 1:56.100 | +0.700 | +0.700 |
| 3 | Luigi Villoresi | Ferrari | 14 | 1:56.500 | +1.100 | +0.400 |
| 4 | Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina | Ferrari | 12 | 1:57.100 | +1.700 | +0.600 |
| 5 | Jose Froilan Gonzalez | Maserati | 4 | 1:58.500 | +3.100 | +1.400 |
| 6 | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | 16 | 1:59.400 | +4.000 | +0.900 |
| 7 | Maurice Trintignant | Gordini | 28 | 2:00.400 | +5.000 | +1.000 |
| 8 | Robert Manzon | Gordini | 26 | 2:00.900 | +5.500 | +0.500 |
| 9 | Oscar Alfredo Gálvez | Maserati | 8 | 2:01.300 | +5.900 | +0.400 |
| 10 | Carlos Menditeguy | Gordini | 32 | 2:01.800 | +6.400 | +0.500 |
| 11 | Jean Behra | Gordini | 30 | 2:02.600 | +7.200 | +0.800 |
| 12 | Alan Brown | Cooper | 20 | 2:03.200 | +7.800 | +0.600 |
| 13 | Adolfo Schwelm Cruz | Cooper | 24 | 2:03.700 | +8.300 | +0.500 |
| 14 | Pablo Birger | Simca-Gordini | 34 | 2:03.800 | +8.400 | +0.100 |
| 15 | Felice Bonetto | Maserati | 6 | 2:04.200 | +8.800 | +0.400 |
| 16 | John Barber | Cooper | 22 | 2:06.800 | +11.400 | +2.600 |
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.
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.
Where this comes from
- Round
- 1 of 1953
- Grand Prix
- Argentine Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
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- 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.