1952 End Of Year Rankings

1952 saw total domination from one team. Ferrari won all but the one race that year, and Alberto Ascari won the last six races, to take that Drivers Championships by a country mile.

1951 Champion - Juan Manuel Fangio - was badly injured in a pre-season race, and missed the season. This meant that the official and unofficial F1 titles was between the three Ferrari drivers - Ascari, Nino Farina, and Piero Taruffi. Taruffi won the first race of the season at Switzerland. Alberto did not race as he chose to go to Indianapolis, but at the race (the second of the championships), he retired before the end of the race. However, after a poor start, Ascari got into gear, and went on to win the last six races of the year.

As Fangio did not race in 52, he inevitably lost the Number One Spot. First to take the spot was Nino Farina, taking it again after losing it in 1951. However, at the end of the season, it was the World Champion Alberto Ascari who took the Number One Position.

Here was the Top 10 at the end of 1952.

1. Alberto Ascari - 1501
2. Nino Farina - 1011.5
   
3. Juan Manuel Fangio - 669.5
   
4. Piero Taruffi - 455
   
5. Luigi Villoresi - 292.5
   
6. Jose Froilan Gonzalez - 290
   
7. Robert Manzon - 224
   
8. Luigi Fagioli - 185
   
9. Rudi Fischer - 171
   
10. Mike Hawthorn - 170