1953 Dutch Grand Prix
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| Race 3 of 9 in the 1953 World Drivers' Championship | |||
Zandvoort original layout
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| Date | 7 June 1953 | ||
| Official name | IV Grote Prijs van Nederland | ||
| Location | Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.193 km (2.605 mi) | ||
| Distance | 90 laps, 377.370 km (234.488 mi) | ||
| Weather | Sunny, mild, dry | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||
| Time | 1:51.1 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Luigi Villoresi
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Ferrari | |
| Time | 1:52.8 on lap 59 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |
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Ferrari | |
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | Maserati | ||
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The 1953 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula Two race held on 7 June 1953 at the Circuit Zandvoort. It was the third round of the 1953 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 teammate Luigi Villoresi finished second and Maserati drivers José Froilán González and Felice Bonetto came in third
The Dutch Grand Prix, which had been held in August the previous year, moved to an earlier June calendar slot in 1953. Ferrari retained the same four drivers who had competed at Buenos Aires—Alberto Ascari, Luigi Villoresi, Nino Farina and Mike Hawthorn—while there was also a privateer Ferrari for Frenchman Louis Rosier. The Scuderia's most significant competition came from the Maserati team, who came to Zandvoort with three of their four drivers from the Argentine Grand Prix: Juan Manuel Fangio, José Froilán González and Felice Bonetto. Swiss driver Toulo de Graffenried raced in a privateer Maserati for Enrico Platé's team. Gordini also entered three cars for this event, with Maurice Trintignant and Harry Schell (who had shared Trintignant's car at Buenos Aires) being retained from their lineup for Argentina. Roberto Mieres made his Grand Prix debut in the team's third car. The Connaught works team retained Kenneth McAlpine and Stirling Moss from their lineup for the previous European race, the Italian Grand Prix, while fellow British driver Roy Salvadori also drove for the team, and Johnny Claes entered a privateer Connaught. HWM also stuck with the drivers who had competed for them in Monza—Peter Collins and Lance Macklin—while Ken Wharton completed the field in his privateer Cooper-Bristol.
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