F1/Drivers/Alberto Ascari
Alberto Ascari, portrait

ALBERTO ASCARI

Italian·Born July 13, 1918·1950-1955 · 6 seasons · 3 constructors
32
RACE STARTS
1950-1955 · 6 seasons
13
WINS
17 podiums · 14 poles
134.14
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
2
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
10
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
3
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
40.6%
STARTS WON
13 of 32

01/Season by season

8 lines over 6 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1955Lancia200000
1954 · rounds 4-5Maserati20000.14251.14
1954 · rounds 8-8Ferrari10000
1954 · rounds 9-9Lancia10011
1953Ferrari81st55646.5134.5
1952Ferrari71st66553.5136
1951Ferrari71st24225225
1950Ferrari42nd0208511
Career3 constructors321st131714134.142 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Ascari has 8 lines over 6 seasons: 1 season was split between constructors and the round range of each spell is printed beside the year. Across the archive that is 3,422 season-constructor lines against 3,129 driver-seasons, so folding on the season alone would silently merge 293 of them and credit a driver with a full year at a car driven for a fortnight. Champ and Champ pts belong to the SEASON, not to the spell, and are printed once on a season’s first line; a dash in those two columns on a continuation line means the figure is above it, not that it is missing. Race pts is the sum of Grand Prix points and does not have to equal Champ pts: 139 of 3,129 driver-seasons differ, 68 of them from 1950 to 1990, when only a driver’s best results counted toward the title, and 71 from 2021 on, when sprint points began landing in the standings while this archive holds the Grand Prix result alone. Best is the best CLASSIFIED finish, read from position_text.


02/Race log, 1953

8 races
1 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 18Argentine Grand PrixFerrari1197Finished9
3JUN 7Dutch Grand PrixFerrari1190Finished8
4JUN 21Belgian Grand PrixFerrari2136Finished8
5JUL 5French Grand PrixFerrari1460Finished3
6JUL 18British Grand PrixFerrari1190Finished8.5
7AUG 2German Grand PrixFerrari1817Engine1
8AUG 23Swiss Grand PrixFerrari2165Finished9
9SEP 13Italian Grand PrixFerrari1R79Accident0

The log is ordered by round, which is the calendar. Pos prints position_text, the source’s own classification, so R is retired, W is withdrew and D is disqualified rather than a finishing place: 1 of 8 rows in 1953 are one of those. Grid 0 means the car started from the pit lane or took no recorded grid slot and prints as PIT. No fastest-lap column is drawn: the source has no lap timing before 2004, so 1953 has none to show and an empty column would read as missing data. A Grand Prix name links to that race’s full classification. Sprints are not in this archive at all, so no sprint appears in the log and no sprint point is in Pts.

The portrait is the lead image of this driver’s Wikipedia article, shown only where that image was measured to hold a face at portrait scale: 374 of 881 drivers have one, 78 lead with a photograph of a car and 385 have no free image at all. Picture from Wikipedia by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain. File description