Race · Round 4 of 9 ·
1953 Belgian Grand Prix
Alberto Ascari won for Ferrari from 2nd on the grid at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. 9 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Onofre Marimon. With this win, Alberto Ascari set a new record of 11 championship Grand Prix wins.
- Circuit
- Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsStavelot, Belgium
- Winner
- Alberto AscariFerrari
- Fastest lap
- Jose Froilan Gonzalez
- Entries
- 2211 classified
Classification
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Chassis | Grid | Laps | Out | Points | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari | — | 2 | 36 | Finished | 8 | |
| 2 | Luigi Villoresi | Ferrari | — | 5 | 36 | Finished | 6 | |
| 3 | Onofre Marimon | Maserati | A6GCM | 6 | 35 | Finished | 4 | |
| 4 | Emmanuel de Graffenried | Maserati | A6GCM | 9 | 35 | Finished | 3 | |
| 5 | Maurice Trintignant | Gordini | T16 | 8 | 35 | Finished | 2 | |
| 6 | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | — | 7 | 35 | Finished | 0 | |
| 7 | Harry Schell | Gordini | T16 | 12 | 33 | Finished | 0 | |
| 8 | Louis Rosier | Ferrari | 500 | 13 | 33 | Finished | 0 | |
| 9 | Fred Wacker | Gordini | T16 | 15 | 32 | Finished | 0 | |
| 10 | Paul Frère | HWM | 53 | 11 | 30 | Finished | 0 | |
| 11 | André Pilette | Connaught | A | 18 | 29 | Finished | 0 | |
| DNF | Johnny Claes | Maserati | A6GCM | 10 | 35 | Accident | 0 | |
| DNF | Lance Macklin | HWM | 53 | 17 | 19 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina | Ferrari | — | 4 | 16 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Juan Manuel Fangio | Maserati | A6GCM | 1 | 13 | DNF | 0 | |
| DNF | Jose Froilan Gonzalez | Maserati | A6GCM | 3 | 11 | Throttle | 1 | fastest lap |
| DNF | Jean Behra | Gordini | T16 | 14 | 9 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Peter Collins | HWM | 53 | 16 | 4 | Clutch | 0 | |
| DNF | Georges Berger | Simca-Gordini | T15 | 20 | 3 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Arthur Legat | Veritas | Meteor | 19 | 0 | Transmission | 0 | |
| DNS | Jacques Swaters | Ferrari | 500 | — | — | DNS | 0 | |
| DNS | Charles de Tornaco | Ferrari | 500 | — | — | DNS | 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.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Time | Gap | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Maserati | 4 | 4:30.100 | — | — |
| 2 | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari | 10 | 4:32.000 | +1.900 | +1.900 |
| 3 | Jose Froilan Gonzalez | Maserati | 2 | 4:32.000 | +1.900 | +0.000 |
| 4 | Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina | Ferrari | 12 | 4:36.000 | +5.900 | +4.000 |
| 5 | Luigi Villoresi | Ferrari | 8 | 4:39.000 | +8.900 | +3.000 |
| 6 | Onofre Marimon | Maserati | 28 | 4:40.000 | +9.900 | +1.000 |
| 7 | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | 14 | 4:42.000 | +11.900 | +2.000 |
| 8 | Maurice Trintignant | Gordini | 18 | 4:45.000 | +14.900 | +3.000 |
| 9 | Emmanuel de Graffenried | Maserati | 30 | 4:49.000 | +18.900 | +4.000 |
| 10 | Johnny Claes | Maserati | 6 | 4:50.000 | +19.900 | +1.000 |
| 11 | Paul Frère | HWM | 24 | 4:52.000 | +21.900 | +2.000 |
| 12 | Harry Schell | Gordini | 20 | 4:53.000 | +22.900 | +1.000 |
| 13 | Louis Rosier | Ferrari | 32 | 4:56.000 | +25.900 | +3.000 |
| 14 | Jean Behra | Gordini | 16 | 4:57.000 | +26.900 | +1.000 |
| 15 | Fred Wacker | Gordini | 38 | 5:03.000 | +32.900 | +6.000 |
| 16 | Peter Collins | HWM | 26 | 5:03.000 | +32.900 | +0.000 |
| 17 | Lance Macklin | HWM | 22 | 5:14.000 | +43.900 | +11.000 |
| 18 | André Pilette | Connaught | 40 | 5:23.000 | +52.900 | +9.000 |
| 19 | Arthur Legat | Veritas | 36 | 5:41.000 | +1:10.900 | +18.000 |
| 20 | Georges Berger | Simca-Gordini | 34 | 5:58.000 | +1:27.900 | +17.000 |
| 21 | Jacques Swaters | Ferrari | 42 | — | — | — |
| 22 | Charles de Tornaco | Ferrari | 44 | — | — | — |
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
- 4 of 1953
- Grand Prix
- Belgian Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- Original road circuit · 14.1 km · 19 turns
- 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.