1952 French Grand Prix

The Grand Prix of France 1952 took place on July 6 on the track Rouen -les- Essarts and was the fourth of eight races of the Formula 1 season 1952.

Background

A week before the Grand Prix of France Jean Behra was able to win a World Championship scoring not race with his Gordini, while the Ferrari refer to the places. This along with his strong performance at Spa gave rise to the hope that Behra could come near in his home race at the level of Ferrari.

Training

In training, the hopes of the French could not be confirmed. All three Ferraris took places in the front row, while Behra was the best non- Ferrari, but was his training time of 4.5 seconds over the quickest in Ascari.

Race

The race was a very one-sided affair for the Ferrari. Ascari drove out a start - to-finish victory and lapped the entire field including his teammates. Farina, who finished second, has also held its position from the beginning. Only had to fight his way Taruffi after a weak start. However, who held the third position after four rounds. After him Taruffi had ousted in the fourth round of the third place, also changed at the position of Robert Manzon nothing more. He remained to the end in fourth place. Only at positions behind it came to some tension. Mike Hawthorn was able to fight his way up to the fifth position from 15th place, but then had his car parked in the 51st round of problems with the ignition. Behra was unable to fulfill the hopes placed in him and turned already into the third round into the barriers and had his car can check what threw him back to the last position then in the box. He could make up some positions during the race, more than a seventh place for him was not possible.

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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.