Nationality: Italian
Date of Birth/Death: 1918 - 1955
Drivers championships:
1952,
1953
Grand Prix victories: 13
Races started: 32
Pole positions: 14
Teams:
Lancia 1955,
Maserati 1954,
Ferrari 1950 - 1953
Alberto Ascari career
Alberto Ascari started riding motor bikes and then moved to driving cars. In the 1952 and 1953 seasons he was very dominant, winning the drivers championship in both years in a Ferrari. Moving to Maserati and Lancia in 1954/55 gave him an unreliable car. Unfortunately he was killed in a testing accident.
Previous seasons
1955
Team: Lancia
Position: NC
Points: 0
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 0 In the second race of the season at Monaco he crashed his car into the harbour, but survived. A few days later he was killed testing a car at Monza.
1954
Team: Maserati
Position: 25
Points: 1
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 0 For the 1954 season he moved to Lancia but the car was not ready until the last race of the season, so he drove a couple of races for Maserati and one Ferrari, but he retired retired from all of his races.
1953
Team: Ferrari
Position: 1
Points: 34.5
Race wins: 5
Pole positions: 6 Five race wins gave Alberto Ascari his second world championship title.
1952
Team: Ferrari
Position: 1
Points: 36
Race wins: 6
Pole positions: 5 This season was run under Formula 2 regulations and Ascari ran the Tipo 500 and won all 6 of the championship races he entered and took fastest lap in each of them. This was the first of his two world championships.
1951
Team: Ferrari
Position: 2
Points: 25
Race wins: 2
Pole positions: 2 For this season he competed in 7 of the 8 races that counter for the drivers championship, missing the Indy 500 race in America. With 2 race win he went into the final race in contention with for the title, but lost out to Fangio.
1950
Team: Ferrari
Position: 5
Points: 11
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 0 Ascari drove for Ferrari in the first year of the F1 championship. He did not take part in the first race at Silverstone, but was second in two races.
