1952

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Alberto Ascari	Italian	Ferrari	36	6
2	NFNino Farina	Italian	Ferrari	24	0
3	Piero Taruffi	Italian	Ferrari	22	1
4	RFRudi Fischer	Swiss	Ferrari	10	0
5	MHMike Hawthorn	British	Cooper	10	0
6	RMRobert Manzon	French	Gordini	9	0
7	TRTroy Ruttman	American	Kuzma	8	1
8	Luigi Villoresi	Italian	Ferrari	8	0
9	José Froilán González	Argentine	Maserati	6.5	0
10	JRJim Rathmann	American	Kurtis Kraft	6	0
11	Jean Behra	French	Gordini	6	0
12	Sam Hanks	American	Kurtis Kraft	4	0
13	KWKen Wharton	British	Cooper / Frazer Nash	3	0
14	DPDennis Poore	British	Connaught	3	0
15	DCDuane Carter	American	Lesovsky	3	0
16	ABAlan Brown	British	Cooper	2	0
17	MTMaurice Trintignant	French	Gordini / Simca	2	0
18	PFPaul Frère	Belgian	HWM / Simca	2	0
19	Felice Bonetto	Italian	Maserati	2	0
20	ACArt Cross	American	Kurtis Kraft	2	0
21	ETEric Thompson	British	Connaught	2	0
22	BVBill Vukovich	American	Kurtis Kraft	1	0
—	GAGeorge Abecassis	British	HWM	0	0
—	FAFred Agabashian	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	BABill Aston	British	Aston Butterworth	0	0
—	MAManny Ayulo	American	Lesovsky	0	0
—	BBBobby Ball	American	Stevens	0	0
—	MBMarcel Balsa	French	BMW	0	0
—	Henry Banks	American	Lesovsky	0	0
—	ÉBÉlie Bayol	French	OSCA	0	0
—	GBGünther Bechem	German	BMW	0	0
—	Tony Bettenhausen	American	Deidt	0	0
—	Gino Bianco	Brazilian	Maserati	0	0
—	PBPrince Bira	Thai	Gordini / Simca	0	0
—	EBEric Brandon	British	Cooper	0	0
—	ABAdolf Brudes	German	Veritas	0	0
—	JBJimmy Bryan	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	YCYves Cabantous	French	HWM	0	0
—	ECEitel Cantoni	Uruguayan	Maserati	0	0
—	Piero Carini	Italian	Ferrari	0	0
—	JCJohnny Claes	Belgian	Gordini / HWM / Simca	0	0
—	PCPeter Collins	British	HWM	0	0
—	FCFranco Comotti	Italian	Ferrari	0	0
—	GCGeorge Connor	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	TCTony Crook	British	Frazer Nash	0	0
—	Ken Downing	British	Connaught	0	0
—	Jan Flinterman	Dutch	Maserati	0	0
—	GFGeorge Fonder	American	Sherman	0	0
—	TGTony Gaze	Australian	HWM	0	0
—	CGCliff Griffith	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	DHDuncan Hamilton	British	HWM	0	0
—	GHGene Hartley	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	WHWilli Heeks	German	AFM	0	0
—	THTheo Helfrich	German	Veritas	0	0
—	PHPeter Hirt	Swiss	Ferrari	0	0
—	Joe James	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	EJEddie Johnson	American	Trevis	0	0
—	HKHans Klenk	German	Veritas	0	0
—	EKErnst Klodwig	East German	BMW	0	0
—	RKRudolf Krause	East German	BMW	0	0
—	CLChico Landi	Brazilian	Maserati	0	0
—	RLRoger Laurent	Belgian	Ferrari / HWM	0	0
—	ALArthur Legat	Belgian	Veritas	0	0
—	ALAndy Linden	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	LMLance Macklin	British	HWM	0	0
—	KMKenneth McAlpine	British	Connaught	0	0
—	JMJohnny McDowell	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	Jack McGrath	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	CMChet Miller	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	RMRobin Montgomerie-Charrington	British	Aston Butterworth	0	0
—	SMStirling Moss	British	Connaught / ERA / HWM	0	0
—	DMDavid Murray	British	Cooper	0	0
—	DNDuke Nalon	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	HNHelmut Niedermayr	German	AFM	0	0
—	RORobert O'Brien	American	Simca	0	0
—	RPReg Parnell	British	Cooper	0	0
—	Johnnie Parsons	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JPJosef Peters	German	Veritas	0	0
—	PPPaul Pietsch	German	Veritas	0	0
—	JRJimmy Reece	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	FRFritz Riess	German	Veritas	0	0
—	JRJim Rigsby	American	Watson	0	0
—	FRFranco Rol	Italian	Maserati	0	0
—	LRLouis Rosier	French	Ferrari	0	0
—	Roy Salvadori	British	Ferrari	0	0
—	HSHarry Schell	American	Maserati	0	0
—	BSBill Schindler	American	Stevens	0	0
—	RSRudolf Schoeller	Swiss	Ferrari	0	0
—	BSBob Scott	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	ASAndré Simon	French	Ferrari	0	0
—	Chuck Stevenson	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	BSBob Sweikert	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	TUToni Ulmen	German	Veritas	0	0
—	Rodger Ward	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	TWTravis Webb	American	Bromme	0	0
—	PWPeter Whitehead	British	Alta / Ferrari	0	0
—	GWGraham Whitehead	British	Alta	0	0
—	Toulo de Graffenried	Swiss	Maserati	0	0
—	MTMax de Terra	Swiss	Simca	0	0
—	CTCharles de Tornaco	Belgian	Ferrari	0	0
—	Dries van der Lof	Dutch	HWM	0	0
—	HSHans von Stuck	German	AFM	0	0
—	Philippe Étancelin	French	Maserati	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 81 of 103 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points. 1 of 103 totals are fractional, which is the sport’s own arithmetic (shared drives split a score, and a race stopped short pays half points), not a rounding artefact.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 8, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 1952, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 1952, not those that entered. There is no constructors’ championship for 1952: the title was first awarded in 1958, and its absence here is history rather than missing data. 1952 is complete: all 8 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.