19 Jul 1952 British Grand Prix
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The 1952 British Grand Prix was Round 5 of the 1952 Formula 1 World Championship. The event was held at Silverstone, United Kingdom on Sunday, 19 July 1952. Nino Farina started on pole position for Ferrari and his team-mate Alberto Ascari was the race winner.
1952 British Grand Prix Race Result
| Pos. | No. | Driver | Nationality | Car | Tyre | Laps | Race Time | Gap | Interval | Best Lap | Lap | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | Alberto Ascari | Italy | Ferrari | Pirelli | 85 | 2:44:11.000 | - | - | 1:52.000 | 9 | 9 |
| 2 | 17 | Piero Taruffi | Italy | Ferrari | Pirelli | 84 | 1 lap | 1 lap | 6 | |||
| 3 | 9 | Mike Hawthorn | Great Britain | Cooper Bristol | 83 | 2 laps | 1 lap | 4 | ||||
| 4 | 6 | Dennis Poore | Great Britain | Connaught Francis | 83 | 2 laps | 3 | |||||
| 5 | 5 | Eric Thompson | Great Britain | Connaught Francis | 82 | 3 laps | 1 lap | 2 | ||||
| 6 | 16 | Nino Farina | Italy | Ferrari | Pirelli | 82 | 3 laps | |||||
| 7 | 8 | Reg Parnell | Great Britain | Cooper Bristol | 82 | 3 laps | ||||||
| 8 | 14 | Roy Salvadori | Great Britain | Ferrari | Pirelli | 82 | 3 laps | |||||
| 9 | 4 | Ken Downing | Great Britain | Connaught Francis | 82 | 3 laps | ||||||
| 10 | 21 | Peter Whitehead | Great Britain | Ferrari | Pirelli | 81 | 4 laps | 1 lap | ||||
| 11 | 26 | Prince Bira | Thailand | Gordini | 81 | 4 laps | ||||||
| 12 | 1 | Graham Whitehead | Great Britain | Alta | 80 | 5 laps | 1 lap | |||||
| 13 | 19 | Rudi Fischer | Switzerland | Ferrari | Pirelli | 80 | 5 laps | |||||
| 14 | 27 | Johnny Claes | Belgium | Simca-Gordini | 79 | 6 laps | 1 lap | |||||
| 15 | 31 | Lance Macklin | Great Britain | HWM Alta | 79 | 6 laps | ||||||
| 16 | 3 | Kenneth McAlpine | Great Britain | Connaught Francis | 79 | 6 laps | ||||||
| 17 | 33 | Harry Schell | United States | Maserati Plate | 78 | 7 laps | 1 lap | |||||
| 18 | 34 | Gino Bianco | Brazil | Maserati | 77 | 8 laps | 1 lap | |||||
| 19 | 32 | Emmanuel de Graffenried | Switzerland | Maserati Plate | 76 | 9 laps | 1 lap | |||||
| 20 | 10 | Eric Brandon | Great Britain | Cooper Bristol | 76 | 9 laps | ||||||
| 21 | 23 | Tony Crook | Great Britain | Frazer Nash Bristol | 75 | 10 laps | 1 lap | |||||
| 22 | 11 | Alan Brown | Great Britain | Cooper Bristol | 69 | 16 laps | 6 laps | |||||
| DNF | 29 | Peter Collins | Great Britain | HWM Alta | 73 | |||||||
| DNF | 30 | Duncan Hamilton | Great Britain | HWM Alta | 44 | |||||||
| DNF | 12 | Stirling Moss | Great Britain | ERA Bristol | 36 | |||||||
| DNF | 25 | Maurice Trintignant | France | Gordini | 21 | |||||||
| DNF | 28 | Tony Gaze | Australia | HWM Alta | 19 | |||||||
| DNF | 7 | David Murray | Great Britain | Cooper Bristol | 14 | |||||||
| DNF | 24 | Robert Manzon | France | Gordini | 9 | |||||||
| DNF | 20 | Peter Hirt | Switzerland | Ferrari | Pirelli | 3 | ||||||
| DNF | 35 | Eitel Cantoni | Uruguay | Maserati | ||||||||
| DNS | 2 | Bill Aston | Great Britain | Aston Butterworth |