F1/Seasons/1952/Round 8
1952 · Round 8 of 8

Italian Grand Prix

September 7, 1952 · Autodromo Nazionale di Monza · Monza · Italy
Ascari
WINNER
Alberto Ascari · Ferrari · from grid 1
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+12
MOST PLACES GAINED
Eitel Cantoni · grid 23 to P11
15 of 24
CLASSIFIED
9 retired

01/Classification

24 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Alberto AscariFerrari10802:50:45.6008.5
2José Froilán GonzálezMaserati5+380+1:01.8006.5
3Luigi VilloresiFerrari2-180+2:04.2004
4Nino FarinaFerrari3-180+2:11.4003
5Felice BonettoMaserati13+879+1 Lap2
6André SimonFerrari8+279+1 Lap0
7Piero TaruffiFerrari6-177+3 Laps0
8Chico LandiMaserati18+1076+4 Laps0
9Ken WhartonCooper15+676+4 Laps0
10Louis RosierFerrari17+775+5 Laps0
11Eitel CantoniMaserati23+1275+5 Laps0
12Dennis PooreConnaught19+774+6 Laps0
13Eric BrandonCooper20+773+7 Laps0
14Robert ManzonGordini7-771+9 Laps0
15Alan BrownCooper12-368+12 Laps0
RStirling MossConnaught160Suspension0
RGino BiancoMaserati2546Engine0
RJean BehraGordini1142Engine0
RMike HawthornCooper1238Not classified0
RFranco RolMaserati1624Engine0
RMaurice TrintignantGordini45Engine0
RKenneth McAlpineConnaught24Suspension0
RRudi FischerFerrari163Engine0
RÉlie BayolOSCA100Gearbox0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 9 of 24 cars here were not classified (9 retired). Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

15 of 24 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Eitel CantoniMaserati2311+12
Chico LandiMaserati188+10
Felice BonettoMaserati135+8
Louis RosierFerrari1710+7
Dennis PooreConnaught1912+7
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Robert ManzonGordini714-7
Alan BrownCooper1215-3
Luigi VilloresiFerrari23-1
Nino FarinaFerrari34-1
Piero TaruffiFerrari67-1

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 15 of the 24 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 9: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and no car here carries grid 0, the value the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1952 season

8 rounds
MAY 18 to SEP 7
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1MAY 18Swiss Grand PrixCircuit BremgartenPiero TaruffiFerrari21
2MAY 30Indianapolis 500Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayTroy RuttmanKuzma33
3JUN 22Belgian Grand PrixCircuit de Spa-FrancorchampsAlberto AscariFerrari22
4JUL 6French Grand PrixRouen-Les-EssartsAlberto AscariFerrari21
5JUL 19British Grand PrixSilverstone CircuitAlberto AscariFerrari32
6AUG 3German Grand PrixNürburgringAlberto AscariFerrari30
7AUG 17Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Park ZandvoortAlberto AscariFerrari18
8SEP 7Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaAlberto AscariFerrari24

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1952 season is complete at 8 rounds.