Race · Round 8 of 9 · 23 August 1953

1953 Swiss Grand Prix

Alberto Ascari won for Ferrari from 2nd on the grid at Bremgarten. With this win, Alberto Ascari set a new record of 13 championship Grand Prix wins.

Circuit: BremgartenBern, Switzerland
Winner: Alberto AscariFerrari
Pole: Juan Manuel Fangio
Fastest lap: Alberto Ascari
Entries: 2310 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	—	2	65	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	Ferrari	—	3	65	Finished	6
3	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	—	7	65	Finished	4
4	Juan Manuel Fangio shared	Maserati	A6GCM	1	64	DNF	1.5
4	Felice Bonetto shared	Maserati	A6GCM	10	29	Engine	1.5
5	Hermann Lang	Maserati	A6GCM	11	62	Finished	2
6	Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari	—	6	62	Finished	0
7	Ken Wharton	Cooper	T23	9	62	Finished	0
8	Max de Terra	Ferrari	—	19	51	Finished	0
9	Albert Scherrer	HWM	53	18	49	Finished	0
DNF	Chico Landi	Maserati	A6GCM	20	54	Gearbox	0
DNF	Emmanuel de Graffenried	Maserati	A6GCM	8	48	Transmission	0
DNF	Onofre Marimon	Maserati	A6GCM	5	46	Engine	0
DNF	Maurice Trintignant	Gordini	T16	4	43	Axle	0
DNF	Jean Behra	Gordini	T16	12	37	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Lance Macklin	HWM	53	15	29	Engine	0
DNF	Peter Hirt	Ferrari	—	17	17	Engine	0
DNF	Paul Frère	HWM	53	16	1	Engine	0
DNF	Louis Rosier	Ferrari	500	14	0	Spun off	0
DNF	Jacques Swaters	Ferrari	500	13	0	Spun off	0
DNS	Louis Chiron	O.S.C.A.	20	—	—	DNS	0
DNS	Élie Bayol	O.S.C.A.	20	—	—	DNS	0
DNS	Fred Wacker	Gordini	T16	—	—	DNS	0

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

F1DB layout bremgarten-1 · 7.28 km · 13 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	2	1	65
Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	3	2	65
Mike Hawthorn	7	3	65
Juan Manuel Fangio shared	1	4	64
Felice Bonetto shared	10	4	29
Hermann Lang	11	5	62
Luigi Villoresi	6	6	62
Ken Wharton	9	7	62
Max de Terra	19	8	51
Albert Scherrer	18	9	49
Chico Landi	20	DNF	54
Emmanuel de Graffenried	8	DNF	48
Onofre Marimon	5	DNF	46
Maurice Trintignant	4	DNF	43
Jean Behra	12	DNF	37
Lance Macklin	15	DNF	29
Peter Hirt	17	DNF	17
Paul Frère	16	DNF	1
Louis Rosier	14	DNF	0
Jacques Swaters	13	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Juan Manuel Fangio	Maserati	32	2:40.100	—	—
2	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari	46	2:40.700	+0.600	+0.600
3	Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	Ferrari	24	2:42.600	+2.500	+1.900
4	Maurice Trintignant	Gordini	8	2:43.800	+3.700	+1.200
5	Onofre Marimon	Maserati	36	2:44.500	+4.400	+0.700
6	Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari	28	2:44.600	+4.500	+0.100
7	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	26	2:48.100	+8.000	+3.500
8	Emmanuel de Graffenried	Maserati	42	2:49.900	+9.800	+1.800
9	Ken Wharton	Cooper	20	2:51.500	+11.400	+1.600
10	Felice Bonetto	Maserati	30	2:52.000	+11.900	+0.500
11	Hermann Lang	Maserati	34	2:54.800	+14.700	+2.800
12	Jean Behra	Gordini	6	2:55.000	+14.900	+0.200
13	Jacques Swaters	Ferrari	2	2:55.100	+15.000	+0.100
14	Louis Rosier	Ferrari	10	2:55.400	+15.300	+0.300
15	Lance Macklin	HWM	16	2:57.100	+17.000	+1.700
16	Paul Frère	HWM	14	2:57.900	+17.800	+0.800
17	Peter Hirt	Ferrari	38	3:01.500	+21.400	+3.600
18	Albert Scherrer	HWM	18	3:07.400	+27.300	+5.900
19	Max de Terra	Ferrari	40	3:21.100	+41.000	+13.700
20	Chico Landi	Maserati	4	3:29.700	+49.600	+8.600

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.

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: 8 of 1953
Grand Prix: Swiss Grand Prix
Dates: 23 Aug 1953
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.