1952 Dutch Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 7 of 8 in the 1952 World Drivers' Championship | |||
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| Date | 17 August 1952 | ||
| Official name | III Grote Prijs van Nederland | ||
| Location |
Circuit Zandvoort Zandvoort, Netherlands |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.193 km (2.605 mi) | ||
| Distance | 90 laps, 377.370 km (234.487 mi) | ||
| Weather | Rainy | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||
| Time | 1:46.5 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Alberto Ascari
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Ferrari | |
| Time | 1:49.8 on lap 89 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Ferrari | ||
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
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The 1952 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula Two race held on 17 August 1952 at the Circuit Zandvoort. It was the seventh round of the 1952 World Drivers' Championship, which was run to Formula Two rules in 1952 and 1953, rather than the Formula One regulations normally used. The 90-lap race was won by Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari after he started from pole position. His teammates Giuseppe Farina and Luigi Villoresi finished in second and third places.
Luigi Villoresi, absent from the World Championship since the final round of the 1951 season, returned to the Ferrari lineup for the Dutch Grand Prix, replacing Piero Taruffi, alongside regulars Nino Farina and Alberto Ascari, the latter of which had clinched the Drivers' Championship title two weeks previously. Charles de Tornaco also drove a Ferrari at Zandvoort, on behalf of the Ecurie Francorchamps team. Gordini entered the same three drivers from the previous event, the French trio of Behra, Manzon and Trintignant, while Belgian driver Paul Frère drove an Ecurie Belge-entered Simca-Gordini. The HWM team partnered Britons Lance Macklin and Duncan Hamilton with the local driver Dries van der Lof. The only other Dutch driver on the grid was Jan Flinterman, who took part in a Maserati for Escuderia Bandeirantes alongside Chico Landi and Gino Bianco. The works Maserati team were once again absent from the grid, following an unsuccessful appearance in Germany. The field was completed by the Connaught of Ken Downing, Mike Hawthorn's Cooper-Bristol, Ken Wharton's Frazer-Nash and Stirling Moss in an ERA.
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