1952 Dutch Grand Prix

 1952 Dutch Grand Prix

Racing data
7th of 8 races in the 1952 World Automobile Championship
Surname:	IV Grote Prijs van Nederland
Date:	17th August 1952
Place:	Zandvoort
Course:	Zandvoort
Length:	377.37 km in 90 laps of 4.193 km
Weather:	overcast, rainy
Pole position
Driver:	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari
Time:	1: 46.5 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari
Time:	1: 49.8 min (lap 89)
Podium
First:	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari
Second:	Giuseppe Farina	Ferrari
Third:	Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari

The 1952 Dutch Grand Prix took place on August 17th at the Zandvoort circuit and was the seventh of eight races in the 1952 World Cup .

background

Although Grand Prix races have also been held in Zandvoort for the past three years , 1952 was the first time the race had achieved World Championship status. Compared to the races at Silverstone and at the Nürburgring , the number of 18 entries was small, but with Ferrari , Gordini , Cooper - Bristol , and Connaught the most important participants were all represented. At Ferrari, the recovered Villoresi replaced Piero Taruffi . Villoresi was injured in a traffic accident earlier this year. Gordini competed with three vehicles for Behra , Trintignant and Manzon , Cooper and Connaught only sent one vehicle each for Mike Hawthorn and Ken Downing, respectively . The Maserati factory team was not at the start again.

training

The practice was dominated as usual by the Ferrari drivers Ascari and Farina, with Ascari securing pole position with 1: 46.5 min. Hawthorn was astonishingly able to keep up with the Cooper and secured the remaining place in the front row before Villoresi's third Ferrari.

run

The race only offered a bit of variety in the first few laps. Ascari won the start, but Hawthorn was two laps ahead of Farina. In the fourth lap he then fell behind Villoresi, so that the three Ferraris took the first three places and - as usual - escaped the field. Hawthorn was able to secure his fourth place ahead of the rest of the field. Most of the overtaking maneuvers were made by Stirling Moss , who had fought his way up to seventh position with the defeated ERA from a starting position in the back row up to the eighth lap. However, he had to retire on lap 73 with engine failure. Behra had parked his Gordini on lap 10 with a defective ignition. The leading Ferraris did not give up this position until the finish and thus secured a triple success again. In terms of points, this had no effect on Ascari, as he had already achieved the maximum possible number of points for a driver in a season with the last race.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Ferrari	2	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari 500	Ferrari 2.0 L4	P
	4th	Giuseppe Farina
	6th	Luigi Villoresi
Gordini	8th	Jean Behra	Gordini T16 (1952)	Gordini 2.0 L6	E.
	10	Robert Manzon
	12	Maurice Trintignant
Ecurie Belge	14th	Paul Brother	Simca-Gordini T15 GC	Gordini	E.
Escuderia Bandeirantes	16	Francisco Landi	Maserati A6GCM	Maserati	P
	18th	Gino Bianco
	20th	Jan Flinterman
Team Ken Downing	22nd	Ken Downing	Connaught A	Francis 2.0 L4	D.
Ecurie Francorchamps	24	Charles de Tornaco	Ferrari 500	Ferrari 2.0 L4	E.
HWM	26th	Lance Macklin	HWM 52	Alta 1.5	D.
	28	Duncan Hamilton
	30th	Dries van der Lof
Team LD Hawthorn	32	Mike Hawthorn	Cooper T20	Bristol 2.0 L6	D.
Scuderia Franera	34	Ken Wharton	Frazer-Nash 421	Bristol 2.0 L6	D.
English Racing Automobiles	36	Stirling Moss	ERA G-Type	ERA	D.

classification

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	km / h	Starting row
1.	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari	1: 46,500	141.46	1 row
2.	Giuseppe Farina	Ferrari	1: 48,600	138.73	1 M.
3.	Mike Hawthorn	cooper	1: 51.600	135.00	1 L
4th	Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari	1: 51.800	134.76	2 rows
5.	Maurice Trintignant	Gordini	1: 53,000	133.33	2 L
6th	Jean Behra	Gordini	1: 54,500	131.58	3 rows
7th	Ken Wharton	Frazer Nash	1: 54.700	131.35	3 M.
8th.	Robert Manzon	Gordini	1: 54.800	131.24	3 L
9.	Lance Macklin	HWM	1: 55.200	130.78	4 rows
10.	Duncan Hamilton	HWM	1: 55.800	130.10	4 L
11.	Paul Brother	Simca-Gordini	1: 58.200	127.46	5 R
12.	Gino Bianco	Maserati	1: 58.200	127.46	5 M
13.	Ken Downing	Connaught	1: 58.600	127.03	5 L
14th	Dries van der Lof	HWM	1: 59,400	126.18	6 R
15th	Jan Flinterman	Maserati	2: 01.800	123.69	6 L
16.	Francisco Landi	Maserati	2: 02,100	123.39	7 R
17th	Charles de Tornaco	Ferrari	2: 03.700	121.79	7 M.
18th	Stirling Moss	ERA			8 L

Race result

Item	driver	constructor	Round	time	km / h	s. Rd.	guide
1.	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari	90	2: 53: 28,500	130.27	1: 49.800	90
2.	Giuseppe Farina	Ferrari	90	2: 54: 08,600	129.77
3.	Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari	90	2: 55: 02,900	129.10
4th	Mike Hawthorn	cooper	88
5.	Robert Manzon	Gordini	87
6th	Maurice Trintignant	Gordini	87
7th	Duncan Hamilton	HWM	85
8th.	Lance Macklin	HWM	84
9.	Francisco Landi	Maserati	43	handing over
	Jan Flinterman		40
DNF	Ken Wharton	Frazer Nash	76	Rear axle
DNF	Stirling Moss	ERA	72	engine
DNF	Dries van der Lof	HWM	70	not classified
DNF	Ken Downing	Connaught	27	engine
DNF	Charles de Tornaco	Ferrari	19th	engine
DNF	Paul Brother	Simca-Gordini	15th	coupling
DNF	Jean Behra	Gordini	10	engine
DNF	Jan Flinterman	Maserati	7th	differential
DNF	Gino Bianco	Maserati	4th	Rear axle

World Cup stand after the race

The first five got 8, 6, 4, 3 and 2 points respectively; there was a point for the fastest lap. Only the four best results from eight races count. * includes the point for the fastest lap, numbers in brackets are discarded results.

Item	driver	constructor									Points
1.	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari			9 *	9 *	9 *	9 *	(9)		36 (42)
2.	Giuseppe Farina	Ferrari			6th	6th		6th	6th		24
3.	Piero Taruffi	Ferrari	9 *			4th	6th	3			22nd
4th	Rudolf Fischer	Ferrari	6th					4th			10
	Mike Hawthorn	Cooper-Bristol			3		4th		3		10
6th	Robert Manzon	Gordini			4th	3			2		9
7th	Troy Ruttman	Kuzma		8th							8th
8th.	Richard Rathmann	Kurti's power		6th							6th
	Jean Behra	Gordini	4th					2			6th
10.	Sam Hanks	Kurti's power		4th							4th
	Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari							4th		4th
12.	Ken Wharton	Frazer Nash	3								3
	Duane Carter	Lesovsky		3							3
	Dennis Poore	Connaught					3				3
15th	Alan Brown	Cooper-Bristol	2								2
	Art Cross	Kurti's power		2							2
	Paul Brother	HWM			2						2
	Maurice Trintignant	Gordini				2					2
	Eric Thompson	Connaught					2				2
20th	Bill Vukovich	Kurti's power		1*							1

Web links

Commons : Dutch Grand Prix 1952  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lang, Mike; Grand Prix 1950-1965; Haynes Publishing Group, Sparkford Sommerset 1981 p49. ( ISBN 0-85429-276-4 ) (Engl.)
2. ↑ http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr022.html
3. ↑ Unless otherwise stated: Lang, Mike; Grand Prix 1950-1965; Haynes Publishing Group, Sparkford Sommerset 1981 p49. ( ISBN 0-85429-276-4 ) (Engl.)