- Season Points Av. 21.4
- Best Championship Finishes. 1st (x2), 2nd (x1)
- Average Constructor Placing over Career. 2.2
- 16 wins from 16 poles
Alberto Ascari was there from the beginning of Formula One. In only the third F1 season an injury kept the great Juan Manuel Fangio out and Ascari pounced on the chance taking pole in five out of seven races, and winning 6 of them excluding Indy. In the next year Ascari took pole in 6/8 races, and won the title with 5 wins. Like alot of contemporaries, F1 started when Ascari was already in his thirties, and therefore he had few years late on in his career to take the title and in the two opportunities that came up he achieved this. He was extremely successful in the pre-F1 era and therefore would have won more than two titles had he had a decade in f1 like many modern drivers. Following years were plagued by retirements. An interesting piece of f1 trivia is that Ascari was extremely superstitious insisting on using his pale blue helmet, the day he died it was not available. He died crashing a Ferrari four days after driving into the water at Monaco, his father had died in a crash four days after an accident. Ascari was only four days older than his father when he died, both 36.
Ultimately, a driver who took his chances when they came and won two world titles in a short Formula One career
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