1953 British Grand Prix

The Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1953 took place on 18 July at the Silverstone circuit, and was the sixth of nine races of the Formula 1 season 1953.

Background

26 nominations were received for the race. In the favorite teams of Ferrari and Maserati, there were opposite the Grand Prix of France, no changes. Ascari, Farina, Villoresi and Hawthorn competed for Ferrari, Fangio, Gonzalez, Marimon and Bonetto for Maserati. At home race in England were again HWM and Connaught with many cars appeared. Macklin, Collins and Hamilton drove the newest model, while Jack Fairman had to settle for an older car. Bira, McAlpine and Salvadori drove the factory Connaught. Cooper was only represented by a works car for Ken Wharton, the other Cooper vehicles were leased or sold to private racing teams. His first and only Grand Prix enters Jimmy Stewart, the elder brother of the later world champion Jackie Stewart.

Training

The training, which largely took place in the rain, ran to the expected duel between Ferrari with the addition Maseratis. Ascari secured the pole position in front of the Ferrari Maserati González, Hawthorns Ferrari and Fangio in the Maserati. The fastest driver who did not drive one of these cars, Trintignant was in the Gordini, which remained around 4 seconds off the pole time, but was only 1 second slower than the slowest Maserati ( Marimon ).

Race

Ascari used his pole position and took the lead. The best start but managed Lance Macklin, who could drive up from 12th place on the grid in the short term up to the sixth position. The engine power of his H.W.M. but was not enough to survive even a single round at this position - so he came out of the first round back as the tenth. In the second round González went past Fangio and Hawthorn overtook Marimon, just to equal it in the Woodcote curve of the track to come off. The subsequent necessary inspection stop was a small leak in the fuel tank. Until this was repaired, the entire field was over. Ascari and González sat down under its something from the field. In the 17th round González was shown the black flag, which meant disqualification. Marshals saw that his car was losing oil. In the pit stop but no oil leak was found and so González was allowed to continue. However, he had lost two positions. Ascari led now before Fangio, Villoresi and Gonzalez. The order remained unchanged until the 66th round, when Villoresi with a broken rear axle had to leave out of the race. In the same round also Marimon had to retire with engine failure. Since Hawthorn outdated in just this round Trintignant, now the Italian vehicles were now back on the positions 1-5 and went unchanged in order to cross the finish line.

Message list

Classification

Line-up

Race results

Standings after the race

In 1953 the awarding points according to the following scheme:

• It included only the four best results from nine races. String results are shown in brackets.
• The figures marked with * include the point for the fastest lap.
• Same color fields marked point to shared vehicles.