1953 Argentine Grand Prix
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| Race 1 of 9 in the 1953 World Drivers' Championship | |||
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| Date | 18 January 1953 | ||
| Official name | I Gran Premio de la Republica Argentina | ||
| Location | Autódromo 17 de Octubre, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 3.912 km (2.431 mi) | ||
| Distance | 97 laps, 379.464 km (235.788 mi) | ||
| Weather | Hot, dry | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||
| Time | 1:55.4 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Alberto Ascari |
Ferrari | |
| Time | 1:48.4 on lap 73 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |
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Ferrari | |
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | Maserati | ||
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The 1953 Argentine Grand Prix was the first round of the 1953 Formula One World Drivers' Championship, which was run to Formula Two regulations in 1952 and 1953. The race was held in Buenos Aires on January 18, 1953, at the Autódromo Galvez (official name: Autódromo Juan y Óscar Gálvez, also known as the Autódromo 17 de Octubre) as the first official Formula One race in South America. Previously, the Indianapolis 500 (part of the Formula One championship calendar from 1950 to 1960) was the only Formula One championship race held outside of Europe but run to AAA regulations.
The inaugural Argentine Grand Prix, held in mid-January, was attended by four of the major works teams: Maserati, Ferrari, Cooper and Gordini. Former World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio, who had not competed in the Championship since clinching the 1951 title in Spain, raced for Maserati alongside fellow Argentinians José Froilán González and Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, and Italian driver Felice Bonetto. Ferrari lined up with the familiar trio of reigning World Champion Alberto Ascari, Nino Farina and Luigi Villoresi, as well as their new signing Mike Hawthorn, who had driven a privateer Cooper the previous year. The Cooper team entered the British pair of Alan Brown and John Barber alongside the local driver Adolfo Schwelm Cruz. Gordini retained their 1952 trio of Manzon, Trintignant and Behra, who were joined by a pair of Argentinians—Carlos Menditeguy and Pablo Birger—the latter of which drove a Simca-Gordini.
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