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'''Alberto Ascari''' ([[July 13]], [[1918]] &ndash; [[May 26]], [[1955]]) was one of [[Formula One]]'s first stars, the first great [[Ferrari]] driver and one of only two [[Italy|Italian]] [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|World Champions]] in the history of the sport.
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'''Alberto Ascari''' ([[July 13]], [[1918]] &ndash; [[May 26]], [[1955]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[racing driver]] and twice [[Formula One]] [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|World Champion]]. He is one of only two Italian Formula One World Champions in the history of the sport.
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== Early life ==
 
== Early life ==
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Born in [[Milan, Italy]], Ascari was the son of [[Antonio Ascari]], a talented [[Grand Prix motor racing]] star in the 1920s, racing [[Alfa Romeo]]s.  Antonio was killed while leading the [[French Grand Prix]] in 1925 but the younger Ascari had an interest in racing in spite of it.  He raced [[motorcycle]]s in his earlier years; it was after he entered the prestigious [[Mille Miglia]] in a Ferrari sports car that he eventually started racing on four wheels regularly.
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Born in [[Milan]], Ascari was the son of [[Antonio Ascari]], a talented [[Grand Prix motor racing]] star in the 1920s, racing [[Alfa Romeo in motorsport|Alfa Romeo]]s.  Antonio was killed while leading the [[French Grand Prix]] in 1925 but the younger Ascari had an interest in racing in spite of it.  He raced [[motorcycle]]s in his earlier years; it was after he entered the prestigious [[Mille Miglia]] in a Ferrari sports car that he eventually started racing on four wheels regularly.
  
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His racing career was interrupted by World War II, after which he began racing in Grand Prix with [[Maserati]].  His team-mate was [[Luigi Villoresi]], who would become a [[mentor]] and friend of Ascari.  He won his first Grand Prix race in [[Sanremo, Italy]] in 1948 and won another race with the team the following year. His biggest success came after he joined Villoresi on the Ferrari team; he won three more races that year with them.
 
  
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== Formula One career ==
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== Formula One/World Championship career ==
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[[Image:Maserati 4clt 48.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Alberto Ascari at the wheel of a [[Maserati 4CLT/48]], on his way to second place in the [[1948 British Grand Prix]] at [[Silverstone Circuit|Silverstone]].]]
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Following the end of [[World War II]] Alberto Ascari began racing in Grands Prix with [[Maserati]].  His team-mate was [[Luigi Villoresi]], who would become a [[mentor]] and friend to Ascari.  [[Formula One]] regulations were introduced by the [[FIA]] in 1946, with the aim of eventually replacing the pre-war Grand Prix structure. During the next four transitional years, Ascari was at the top of his game, winning numerous events around Europe.  He won his first Grand Prix race in [[Sanremo, Italy]] in 1948 and took second place in the [[British Grand Prix]] the same year.  Ascari won another race with the team the following year.  His biggest success came after he joined Villoresi on the Ferrari team; he won three more races that year with them.  The first Formula One World Championship season took place in 1950, and the Ferrari team made its World Championship debut at [[1950 Monaco Grand Prix|Monte Carlo]] with Ascari, Villoresi, and the popular French driver [[Raymond Sommer]] on the team.  Ascari finished 2nd in the race and later in the year shared a 2nd place at the first World Championship race at [[Autodromo Nazionale Monza|Monza]].  He was only 5th in the championship standings however.  He won his first World Championship F1 race the following season on the [[Nürburgring]] circuit and added a win at Monza, finishing runner up in the championship to [[Juan Manuel Fangio]].
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[[Image:ALBERTO ASCARI Ferrari Switzerland 1953.jpg|left|200px|thumb|'''Alberto Ascari''' driving a Ferrari in Switzerland 1953]]
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With success in Europe, [[Enzo Ferrari]] supplied a car for Ascari in the [[Indianapolis 500]], at the time a World Championship event, in [[1952 Indianapolis 500|1952]].  He was the only European driver to race at Indy in its 11 years on the World Championship schedule, but his day ended after 40 laps.  That was the only World Championship event in which he competed that season that he didn't win.  Ascari's [[Ferrari Tipo 500]] dominated 1952, winning all six races in Europe that season and recording the fastest lap in each race.  He nearly scored the maximum amount of points a driver could earn, but drivers were given points for fastest laps at the time, and he had to share a half point with another driver in one race.
  
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He won three more consecutive races to start the 1953 season, giving him nine straight wins (not counting Indy) before his streak ended when he finished 4th in [[1953 French Grand Prix|France]], although it was a close 4th as the race was highly competitive.  He earned two more wins later in the year to give himself a second consecutive World Championship.  Ascari did not continue his dominance in 1954 as he failed to finish a race in his four attempts at F1, although he made up for it by winning the [[Mille Miglia]].
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[[Image:Alberto_Ascari_1953_British_GP.jpg|thumb|left|200px|'''Alberto Ascari in the 1953 British GP''']]
  
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The first official [[Formula One]] season took place in 1950, and the Ferrari team made its debut at [[1950 Monaco Grand Prix|Monte Carlo]] with Ascari, Villoresi, and the popular French driver [[Raymond Sommer]] on the team.  Ascari finished 2nd in the race and later in the year shared a 2nd place at F1's first race in [[Autodromo Nazionale Monza|Monza]].  He was only 5th in the championship standings however.  He won his first F1 race the following season on the [[Nürburgring]] circuit and added a win at Monza, finishing runner up in the championship to [[Juan Manuel Fangio]].
 
  
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With success in Europe, [[Enzo Ferrari]] supplied a car for Ascari in the [[Indianapolis 500]], at the time an F1 event, in 1952.  He was the only European driver to race at Indy in its 11 years on the F1 schedule, but his day ended after 40 laps.  That was the only time he didn't win an F1 race that season.  Ascari's [[Ferrari Tipo 500]] dominated 1952, winning all six races in Europe that season and recording the fastest lap in each race.  He nearly scored the maximum amount of points a driver could earn, but drivers were given points for fastest laps at the time, and he had to share a half point with another driver in one race.
 
  
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He won three more consecutive races to start the 1953 season, giving him nine straight wins (not counting Indy) before his streak ended when he finished 4th in [[1953 French Grand Prix|France]], although it was a close 4th as the race was highly competitive.  He earned two more wins later in the year to give himself a second consecutive World Championship.  Ascari did not continue his dominance in 1954 as he failed to finish a race in his four attempts at F1, although he made up for it by winning the [[Mille Miglia]].
 
  
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== Death ==
 
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His 1955 season started similarly, retiring twice more, the latter of which was a spectacular incident in [[1955 Monaco Grand Prix|Monaco]] where he crashed into a harbour after missing a [[chicane]].  A week later, on [[May 26]], he went to Monza to test a Ferrari sports car and crashed on one of the track's challenging high-speed corners. He was killed in the accident.  The corner where the accident happened, renamed in his honor, no longer exists, having been replaced with a chicane, the ''Variante Ascari''.
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His 1955 season started similarly, retiring twice more, the latter of which was a spectacular incident in [[Monaco]] where he crashed into the harbour after missing a [[chicane]].  Four days later, on May 26, he went to Monza to watch his friend [[Eugenio Castellotti]] test a Ferrari 750 Monza sports car, which they were to co-race in the Supercortemaggiore 1000&nbsp;km race (having been given special dispensation by Lancia). Just before going home to have lunch with his wife Mietta, he decided to try a few laps with the Ferrari. In shirt sleeves, ordinary trousers and Castellotti’s helmet he set off. As he emerged from a fast curve on the third lap the car unaccountably skidded, turned on its nose and somersaulted twice. Thrown out on the track, Ascari suffered multiple injuries and died a few minutes later.
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The crash occurred on the ''Curva di Vialone'', one of the track's challenging high-speed corners. The corner where the accident happened, renamed in his honour, no longer exists, having been replaced with a chicane, the ''Variante Ascari''.
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Legend has it that Ascari was a very superstitious man and would always insist on using his distinct pale blue crash helmet. On the day he died, his helmet wasn’t available, so he borrowed Castellotti’s white one. The helmet was at the repair shop, having new chin strap fitted after the incident in Monte Carlo which saw Ascari's Lancia take a dip in the Monaco harbour.
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The eerie similarities between the deaths of Alberto and his father still haunt his fans to this day. Alberto Ascari died on May 26, 1955, at the age of 36. [[Antonio Ascari]] was also 36 when he died, on July 26, 1925 (Alberto was only 4 days older). Both father and son had won 13 championship Grand Prix and drove car number 26. Both were killed four days after surviving serious accidents and on the 26th day of the month. Both had crashed fatally at the exit of fast but easy left-hand corners and both left behind a wife and two children. Fans from all across the globe mourned as Alberto Ascari was laid to rest next to the grave of his father in the [[Cimitero Monumentale]] cemetery in Milan, to be forever remembered as one of the greatest racers of all time.
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A distraught Mietta Ascari told [[Enzo Ferrari]] that were it not for their children she would gladly have joined her beloved Alberto in heaven.
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== Legacy ==
 
== Legacy ==
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Alberto Ascari is interred next to his father in the [[Cimitero Monumentale]] in Milan.  The [[Great Britain|British]] [[Ascari]] car manufacturer, manufacturer of the [[Ascari KZ1]] [[supercar]] is named in his honour.
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The [[Great Britain|British]] manufacturer, [[Ascari Cars]] of the [[Ascari KZ1]] [[supercar]] is named in his honour.
  
 
In 1992, he was inducted into the [[International Motorsports Hall of Fame]].
 
In 1992, he was inducted into the [[International Motorsports Hall of Fame]].
  
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==Complete Formula One World Championship Results==
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There is a street in Rome (in the EUR region) named in his honor.
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|bgcolor="#FFFFBF"| '''''[[1952 French Grand Prix|<font color=black>FRA]]'''''<br><font color=black><small>1</small>
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|bgcolor="#FFFFBF"| ''[[1952 British Grand Prix|<font color=black>GBR]]''<br><font color=black><small>1</small>
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|bgcolor="#FFFFBF"| '''''[[1952 German Grand Prix|<font color=black>GER]]'''''<br /><font color=black><small>1</small>
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|bgcolor="#FFFFBF"| '''''[[1952 Dutch Grand Prix|<font color=black>NED]]'''''<br><font color=black><small>1</small>
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|bgcolor="#FFFFBF"| '''''[[1952 Italian Grand Prix|<font color=black>ITA]]'''''<br /><font color=black><small>1</small>
 
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| [[1953 Indianapolis 500|INDY]]<br><small></small>
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! [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] [[Straight-4]]
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|bgcolor="#FFFFBF"| '''''[[1953 British Grand Prix|<font color=black>GBR]]'''''<br><font color=black><small>1</small>
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|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| '''''[[1953 German Grand Prix|<font color=black>GER]]'''''<br /><font color=black><small>8 ‡</small>
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! [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
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|bgcolor="#FFFFBF"| ''[[1953 Swiss Grand Prix|<font color=black>SUI]]''<br /><font color=black><small>1</small>
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|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| ''[[1954 British Grand Prix|<font color=black>GBR]]''<br><font color=black><small>Ret</small>
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|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| '''''[[1954 Spanish Grand Prix|<font color=black>ESP]]'''''<br><font color=black><small>Ret</small>
 
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! [[Lancia in Formula One|Lancia]] [[Ferrari D50|D50]]
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|| [[1955 Monaco Grand Prix|MON]]<br><small>Ret</small>
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! [[Lancia in Formula One|Lancia]] [[V8 engine|V8]]
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| [[1955 Indianapolis 500|INDY]]<br><small></small>
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|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| [[1955 Argentine Grand Prix|<font color=black>ARG]]<br /><font color=black><small>Ret</small>
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| [[1955 Belgian Grand Prix|BEL]]<br><small></small>
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|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| [[1955 Monaco Grand Prix|<font color=black>MON]]<br><font color=black><small>Ret</small>
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| [[1955 Dutch Grand Prix|DUT]]<br><small></small>
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| [[1955 Indianapolis 500|500]]<br><font color=black><small></small>
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| [[1955 British Grand Prix|GBR]]<br><small></small>
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| [[1955 British Grand Prix|GBR]]<br><font color=black><small></small>
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| [[1955 Italian Grand Prix|ITA]]<br /><font color=black><small></small>
 
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! [[Lancia]]
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! NC
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! 0
 
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:''<nowiki>*</nowiki> Indicates shared drive with [[Dorino Serafini]]
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:''<nowiki>†</nowiki> Indicates shared drive with [[José Froilán González]]
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:''<nowiki>‡</nowiki> Indicates shared drive with [[Luigi Villoresi]]
  
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== Formula One Records ==
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== World Championship Records ==
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*During the 1952 and 1953 World Championship seasons, Ascari set 7 fastest laps in succession, an achievement that has not been matched to date. The driver to have come closest is [[Kimi Räikkönen]] with 6 (in {{F1|2008}}).
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*During the 1952 and 1953 World Championship seasons, Ascari won 9 World Championship Grands Prix in succession. Note that to arrive at the statistic of 9 successive races requires the exclusion of the 1953 Indianapolis 500. This caveat is usually permitted on the basis that the Indianapolis 500, whilst a round of the World Championship, was run to a different formula from the other World Championship events, and very few of the regular World Championship teams and drivers competed at Indianapolis and vice versa (Ascari's participation in the 1952 Indianapolis race being one of the few exceptions).
  
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*During the 1952 season, Ascari set 6 fastest laps in series, an achievement that was never matched and only [[Michael Schumacher]] got close in the 2004 season with 5 fastest laps in series.
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*[http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/ascari_bio.htm Grand Prix History - Hall of Fame], Alberto Ascari  
 
*[http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/ascari_bio.htm Grand Prix History - Hall of Fame], Alberto Ascari  
 
*[http://www.4mula1.ro/history/driver/Alberto_Ascari Alberto Ascari statistics]
 
*[http://www.4mula1.ro/history/driver/Alberto_Ascari Alberto Ascari statistics]
 
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8710343 Alberto Ascari] on [[Find-A-Grave]]
 
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8710343 Alberto Ascari] on [[Find-A-Grave]]
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*[http://www.ascari.net/home.php?&&idioma=1] Speed circuit in Ronda (Spain)
  
  
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Alberto Ascari.jpg
Alberto Ascari
Nationality: 3dflagsdotcom italy2bs.gif Italian
Years: 1950 - 1955
Team(s): Ferrari, Maserati, Lancia
Races: 33
Championships: 2
Wins: 13
Podiums: 17
Poles: 14
Points 107.64 (140.14)
Fastest laps: 12
First race: 1950 Monaco Grand Prix
First win: 1951 German Grand Prix
Last win: 1953 Swiss Grand Prix
Last race: 1955 Monaco Grand Prix


Alberto Ascari (July 13, 1918 – May 26, 1955) was an Italian racing driver and twice Formula One World Champion. He is one of only two Italian Formula One World Champions in the history of the sport.


Early life

Born in Milan, Ascari was the son of Antonio Ascari, a talented Grand Prix motor racing star in the 1920s, racing Alfa Romeos. Antonio was killed while leading the French Grand Prix in 1925 but the younger Ascari had an interest in racing in spite of it. He raced motorcycles in his earlier years; it was after he entered the prestigious Mille Miglia in a Ferrari sports car that he eventually started racing on four wheels regularly.


Formula One/World Championship career

Alberto Ascari at the wheel of a Maserati 4CLT/48, on his way to second place in the 1948 British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Following the end of World War II Alberto Ascari began racing in Grands Prix with Maserati. His team-mate was Luigi Villoresi, who would become a mentor and friend to Ascari. Formula One regulations were introduced by the FIA in 1946, with the aim of eventually replacing the pre-war Grand Prix structure. During the next four transitional years, Ascari was at the top of his game, winning numerous events around Europe. He won his first Grand Prix race in Sanremo, Italy in 1948 and took second place in the British Grand Prix the same year. Ascari won another race with the team the following year. His biggest success came after he joined Villoresi on the Ferrari team; he won three more races that year with them. The first Formula One World Championship season took place in 1950, and the Ferrari team made its World Championship debut at Monte Carlo with Ascari, Villoresi, and the popular French driver Raymond Sommer on the team. Ascari finished 2nd in the race and later in the year shared a 2nd place at the first World Championship race at Monza. He was only 5th in the championship standings however. He won his first World Championship F1 race the following season on the Nürburgring circuit and added a win at Monza, finishing runner up in the championship to Juan Manuel Fangio.

File:ALBERTO ASCARI Ferrari Switzerland 1953.jpg
Alberto Ascari driving a Ferrari in Switzerland 1953

With success in Europe, Enzo Ferrari supplied a car for Ascari in the Indianapolis 500, at the time a World Championship event, in 1952. He was the only European driver to race at Indy in its 11 years on the World Championship schedule, but his day ended after 40 laps. That was the only World Championship event in which he competed that season that he didn't win. Ascari's Ferrari Tipo 500 dominated 1952, winning all six races in Europe that season and recording the fastest lap in each race. He nearly scored the maximum amount of points a driver could earn, but drivers were given points for fastest laps at the time, and he had to share a half point with another driver in one race.

He won three more consecutive races to start the 1953 season, giving him nine straight wins (not counting Indy) before his streak ended when he finished 4th in France, although it was a close 4th as the race was highly competitive. He earned two more wins later in the year to give himself a second consecutive World Championship. Ascari did not continue his dominance in 1954 as he failed to finish a race in his four attempts at F1, although he made up for it by winning the Mille Miglia.

Alberto Ascari in the 1953 British GP



Alberto Ascari in a F1 Ferrari


Death

His 1955 season started similarly, retiring twice more, the latter of which was a spectacular incident in Monaco where he crashed into the harbour after missing a chicane. Four days later, on May 26, he went to Monza to watch his friend Eugenio Castellotti test a Ferrari 750 Monza sports car, which they were to co-race in the Supercortemaggiore 1000 km race (having been given special dispensation by Lancia). Just before going home to have lunch with his wife Mietta, he decided to try a few laps with the Ferrari. In shirt sleeves, ordinary trousers and Castellotti’s helmet he set off. As he emerged from a fast curve on the third lap the car unaccountably skidded, turned on its nose and somersaulted twice. Thrown out on the track, Ascari suffered multiple injuries and died a few minutes later.

The crash occurred on the Curva di Vialone, one of the track's challenging high-speed corners. The corner where the accident happened, renamed in his honour, no longer exists, having been replaced with a chicane, the Variante Ascari.

Legend has it that Ascari was a very superstitious man and would always insist on using his distinct pale blue crash helmet. On the day he died, his helmet wasn’t available, so he borrowed Castellotti’s white one. The helmet was at the repair shop, having new chin strap fitted after the incident in Monte Carlo which saw Ascari's Lancia take a dip in the Monaco harbour.

The eerie similarities between the deaths of Alberto and his father still haunt his fans to this day. Alberto Ascari died on May 26, 1955, at the age of 36. Antonio Ascari was also 36 when he died, on July 26, 1925 (Alberto was only 4 days older). Both father and son had won 13 championship Grand Prix and drove car number 26. Both were killed four days after surviving serious accidents and on the 26th day of the month. Both had crashed fatally at the exit of fast but easy left-hand corners and both left behind a wife and two children. Fans from all across the globe mourned as Alberto Ascari was laid to rest next to the grave of his father in the Cimitero Monumentale cemetery in Milan, to be forever remembered as one of the greatest racers of all time.

A distraught Mietta Ascari told Enzo Ferrari that were it not for their children she would gladly have joined her beloved Alberto in heaven.


Legacy

The British manufacturer, Ascari Cars of the Ascari KZ1 supercar is named in his honour.

In 1992, he was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.

There is a street in Rome (in the EUR region) named in his honor.

The Ascari Chicane at Autodromo Nazionale Monza is named after him.


Complete World Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 WDC Points
1950 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 125 Ferrari V12 GBR
 MON
2 		500
 SUI
Ret 		FRA
DNS 		5th 11
Ferrari 125/275 BEL
5
Ferrari 375 ITA
2 *
1951 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 375 Ferrari V12 SUI
6 		500
 BEL
2 		FRA
2 † 		GBR
Ret 		GER
1 		ITA
1 		ESP
4 		2nd 25 (28)
1952 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 375 Ferrari V12 500
Ret 		1st 36 (53.5)
Ferrari 500 Ferrari Straight-4 SUI
 BEL
1 		FRA
1 		GBR
1 		GER
1 		NED
1 		ITA
1
1953 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 500 Ferrari Straight-4 ARG
1 		500
 NED
1 		BEL
1 		FRA
4 		GBR
1 		GER
8 ‡ 		SUI
1 		ITA
Ret 		1st 34.5 (46.5)
1954 Officine Alfieri Maserati Maserati 250F Maserati Straight-6 ARG
 500
 BEL
 FRA
Ret 		GBR
Ret 		GER
 SUI
 25th 1.14
Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 625 Ferrari Straight-4 ITA
Ret
Scuderia Lancia Lancia D50 Lancia V8 ESP
Ret
1955 Scuderia Lancia Lancia D50 Lancia V8 ARG
Ret 		MON
Ret 		500
 BEL
 NED
 GBR
 ITA
 NC 0


* Indicates shared drive with Dorino Serafini
† Indicates shared drive with José Froilán González
‡ Indicates shared drive with Luigi Villoresi

World Championship Records

  • During the 1952 and 1953 World Championship seasons, Ascari set 7 fastest laps in succession, an achievement that has not been matched to date. The driver to have come closest is Kimi Räikkönen with 6 (in 2008).
  • During the 1952 and 1953 World Championship seasons, Ascari won 9 World Championship Grands Prix in succession. Note that to arrive at the statistic of 9 successive races requires the exclusion of the 1953 Indianapolis 500. This caveat is usually permitted on the basis that the Indianapolis 500, whilst a round of the World Championship, was run to a different formula from the other World Championship events, and very few of the regular World Championship teams and drivers competed at Indianapolis and vice versa (Ascari's participation in the 1952 Indianapolis race being one of the few exceptions).

Indy 500 results

Year Car Start Qual Rank Finish Laps Led Retired
1952 12 19 134.308 25 31 40 0 Spun T4
Totals 40 0
Starts 1
Poles 0
Front Row 0
Wins 0
Top 5 0
Top 10 0
Retired 1
  • Ascari was the only regular F1 driver to participate in the Indianapolis 500 while the race was part of the FIA World Championship (1950-1960).

References

External links



Formula One World Drivers' Champions
(1950) Nino Farina ·(1951) Juan Manuel Fangio ·(1952–53) Alberto Ascari ·(1954,55,56,57) Juan Manuel Fangio ·(1958) Mike Hawthorn · (1959–60) Jack Brabham · (1961) Phil Hill ·

(1962) Graham Hill · (1963) Jim Clark · (1964) John Surtees · (1965) Jim Clark · (1966) Jack Brabham · (1967) Denny Hulme · (1968) Graham Hill · (1969) Jackie Stewart · (1970) Jochen Rindt · (1971) Jackie Stewart · (1972) Emerson Fittipaldi · (1973) Jackie Stewart · (1974) Emerson Fittipaldi · (1975) Niki Lauda · (1976) James Hunt · (1977) Niki Lauda · (1978) Mario Andretti · (1979) Jody Scheckter · (1980) Alan Jones · (1981) Nelson Piquet · (1982) Keke Rosberg · (1983) Nelson Piquet · (1984) Niki Lauda · (1985–86) Alain Prost · (1987) Nelson Piquet · (1988) Ayrton Senna · (1989) Alain Prost · (1990–91) Ayrton Senna · (1992) Nigel Mansell · (1993) Alain Prost · (1994–95) Michael Schumacher · (1996) Damon Hill · (1997) Jacques Villeneuve · (1998–99) Mika Häkkinen · (2000,01,02,03,04) Michael Schumacher · (2005–06) Fernando Alonso


3dflagsdotcom italy2bs.gif Scuderia Ferrari
Personnel:
22px-Flag of France.png Jean Todt | 3dflagsdotcom italy2bs.gif Mario Almondo | 3dflagsdotcom italy2bs.gif Stefano Domenicali | 3dflagsdotcom italy2bs.gif Luca Baldisseri
Current drivers:
22px-Flag of Finland.png Kimi Räikkönen | 22px-Flag of Brazil.png Felipe Massa | 3dflagsdotcom italy2bs.gif Luca Badoer | 3dflagsdotcom italy2bs.gif Giancarlo Fisichella (Test Driver) 22px-Flag of Spain.png Marc Gené (Test Driver)
Notable Former drivers:
22px-Flag of Germany.png Michael Schumacher | 3dflagsdotcom italy2bs.gif Alberto Ascari | 22px-Flag of Argentina.png Juan Manuel Fangio | 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png Mike Hawthorn | 22px-Flag of Austria.png Niki Lauda | 22px-Flag of South Africa.png Jody Scheckter | 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png John Surtees | 22px-Flag of the United States.png Phil Hill | 22px-Flag of Brazil.png Rubens Barrichello | 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png Eddie Irvine | 22px-Flag of France.png Jean Alesi | 22px-Flag of France.png Alain Prost | 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png Nigel Mansell | 22px-Flag of Austria.png Gerhard Berger | 3dflagsdotcom italy2bs.gif Michele Alboreto | 22px-Flag of France.png René Arnoux | 22px-Flag of France.png Patrick Tambay | 22px-Flag of the Canada.png Gilles Villeneuve | 22px-Flag of Argentina.png Carlos Reutemann | 20px-Flag of Switzerland.png Clay Regazzoni | 22px-Flag of the United States.png Mario Andretti | 22px-Flag of Belgium (civil).png Jacky Ickx | 22px-Flag of Germany.png Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips | 3dflagsdotcom italy2bs.gif Lorenzo Bandini
Formula One cars:
125 | 275 | 340 | 375 | 500 | 553 | 625 | 555 | D50 | 801 | 412 | 246 | 256 | 156 | 158 | 1512 | 312 | 312B | 312T | 126C | 156/85 | F1/86 | F1/87 | 640 | 641 | 642 | 643 | F92A | F93A | 412T | F310 | F310B | F300 | F399 | F1-2000 | F2001 | F2002 | F2002B | F2003-GA | F2004 | F2004M | F2005 | 248 | F2007 | F2008 | F60 | F10 | 150° Italia | F2012
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