1952 British Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Great Britain on 19 July 1952 was held at the Silverstone circuit, and was the fifth of eight races of the Formula 1 season 1952.
Background
The enormous number of 32 nominations met for the Grand Prix on a structurally slightly different route from Silverstone. In addition to the works teams of Ferrari and Gordini here first appeared Connaught with four cars for Downing, Poore, Thompson and McAlpine in a World Championship race on. However, neither the team nor any of the driver should be able to establish themselves in the drivers' world championship in the next few years. In the Ferrari works team to race drivers Ascari, Farina and Taruffi was ever a 500 with 2.0-liter engine available, the private team Ecurie Espadon reported a 500 for Rudolf Fischer and another 212 with 1.5 L V12 engine for his Swiss compatriot Peter Hirt. Other private Ferrari gave answers from Peter Whitehead and Roy Salvadori. The latter was here his debut in a World Championship race. In Gordini replaced Maurice Trintignant to a week earlier injured Jean Behra. Besides Connaught launched six other British brands with HWM 4, 5 Cooper and one each Alta, ERA, Frazer - Nash and Aston. The Maserati factory team was not re-appeared.
Training
Despite the large number of British vehicles, none of them against the dominant Ferraris again had a real chance. Farina and Ascari drove with each 1:50 min the fastest times, followed by Taruffi, who was three seconds slower. Manzon in the Gordini completed the front row. The Connaught were with Cooper into something on par and shared the second row.
Race
The start Ascari won against Farina and the excellent Dennis Poore started in Connaught. Taruffi clearly lost for the third time in a row at the start of the stands and had to get back to the front to fight. On lap 14, he was able to work your way to the third position. From then on, the race seemed like a monotonous course to take, as in France. However, in the 26th round Farina turned into the pits to change his spark plugs. Thus he fell back to the seventh position. However, the plug change did not yield any significant improvement, so he could move only one place in the course of the race. Ascari won his third Grand Prix in a row, the second, where he lapped the entire field. Behind the Ferraris, the Connaught in her first race could claim amazingly well. The highest ranked was Poore, who was temporarily in third place, but had to be fought in the 49th round Mike Hawthorn in Cooper. Of the 32 launched vehicles were there at the end with 22. For its time, this meant a very high reliability of the cars.
Message list
Classification
Line-up
Race results
Standings after the race
The first five were 8, 6, 4, 3, 2 points; one point there was for the fastest lap. There are only the four best results from the eight races. * Includes the point for the fastest lap, numbers in parentheses are void results.