Race · Round 5 of 9 · 5 July 1953

1953 French Grand Prix

Mike Hawthorn won for Ferrari from 7th on the grid at Reims-Gueux. 10 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Mike Hawthorn.

Dry · High of 23 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Reims-GueuxGueux, France
Winner: Mike HawthornFerrari
Pole: Alberto Ascari
Fastest lap: Juan Manuel Fangio
Entries: 2515 classified

Two sources disagree about this race

Fastest lap

Juan Manuel FangioagainstAlberto Ascari

The harvest credits Fangio alone with the 2:41.1; F1DB credits Fangio and Ascari both, as a shared fastest lap. The race article credits Fangio and footnotes that some sources credit Ascari with an equal fastest lap, so this is a real disagreement between sources and stays open. It is the race behind Ascari's open career row: F1DB's 13 fastest laps for him against the 12 of his career infobox and the race records (RESOURCED_ELSEWHERE). Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_French_Grand_Prix

Recorded rather than resolved, and open for somebody to settle. Every one is listed on the quality page. If you can settle it against a source that can be checked, report what you have.

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	—	7	60	Finished	8
2	Juan Manuel Fangio	Maserati	A6GCM	4	60	Finished	7	fastest lap
3	Jose Froilan Gonzalez	Maserati	A6GCM	5	60	Finished	4
4	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari	—	1	60	Finished	3
5	Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	Ferrari	—	6	60	Finished	2
6	Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari	—	3	60	Finished	0
7	Emmanuel de Graffenried	Maserati	A6GCM	9	58	Finished	0
8	Louis Rosier	Ferrari	500	10	56	Finished	0
9	Onofre Marimon	Maserati	A6GCM	8	55	Finished	0
10	Jean Behra	Gordini	T16	22	55	Finished	0
11	Bob Gerard	Cooper	T23	12	55	Finished	0
12	Johnny Claes	Connaught	A	21	53	Finished	0
13	Peter Collins	HWM	53	17	52	Finished	0
14	Yves Giraud-Cabantous	HWM	53	18	50	Finished	0
15	Louis Chiron	O.S.C.A.	20	25	43	Finished	0
DNF	Felice Bonetto	Maserati	A6GCM	2	42	Engine	0
DNF	Sir Stirling Moss	Cooper	—	13	38	Clutch	0
DNF	Birabongse Bhanudej	Connaught	A	11	29	Differential	0
DNF	Élie Bayol	O.S.C.A.	20	15	18	Engine	0
DNF	Ken Wharton	Cooper	T23	14	17	Wheel bearing	0
DNF	Maurice Trintignant	Gordini	T16	23	14	Transmission	0
DNF	Lance Macklin	HWM	53	16	9	Clutch	0
DNF	Roberto Mieres	Gordini	T16	24	4	Axle	0
DNF	Harry Schell	Gordini	T16	20	4	Engine	0
DNF	Roy Salvadori	Connaught	A	19	2	Ignition	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout reims-2 · 8.302 km · 7 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Mike Hawthorn	7	1	60
Juan Manuel Fangio	4	2	60
Jose Froilan Gonzalez	5	3	60
Alberto Ascari	1	4	60
Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	6	5	60
Luigi Villoresi	3	6	60
Emmanuel de Graffenried	9	7	58
Louis Rosier	10	8	56
Onofre Marimon	8	9	55
Jean Behra	22	10	55
Bob Gerard	12	11	55
Johnny Claes	21	12	53
Peter Collins	17	13	52
Yves Giraud-Cabantous	18	14	50
Louis Chiron	25	15	43
Felice Bonetto	2	DNF	42
Sir Stirling Moss	13	DNF	38
Birabongse Bhanudej	11	DNF	29
Élie Bayol	15	DNF	18
Ken Wharton	14	DNF	17
Maurice Trintignant	23	DNF	14
Lance Macklin	16	DNF	9
Roberto Mieres	24	DNF	4
Harry Schell	20	DNF	4
Roy Salvadori	19	DNF	2

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari	10	2:41.200	—	0 m	—
2	Felice Bonetto	Maserati	24	2:41.500	+0.300	15 m	+0.300
3	Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari	12	2:41.900	+0.700	36 m	+0.400
4	Juan Manuel Fangio	Maserati	18	2:42.000	+0.800	41 m	+0.100
5	Jose Froilan Gonzalez	Maserati	20	2:42.400	+1.200	62 m	+0.400
6	Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	Ferrari	14	2:42.500	+1.300	67 m	+0.100
7	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	16	2:43.500	+2.300	118 m	+1.000
8	Onofre Marimon	Maserati	22	2:44.700	+3.500	180 m	+1.200
9	Emmanuel de Graffenried	Maserati	46	2:46.100	+4.900	252 m	+1.400
10	Louis Rosier	Ferrari	44	2:49.600	+8.400	433 m	+3.500
11	Birabongse Bhanudej	Connaught	42	2:53.200	+12.000	618 m	+3.600
12	Bob Gerard	Cooper	38	2:54.200	+13.000	670 m	+1.000
13	Sir Stirling Moss	Cooper	36	2:55.700	+14.500	747 m	+1.500
14	Ken Wharton	Cooper	40	2:55.800	+14.600	752 m	+0.100
15	Élie Bayol	O.S.C.A.	34	2:56.900	+15.700	809 m	+1.100
16	Lance Macklin	HWM	26	2:57.200	+16.000	824 m	+0.300
17	Peter Collins	HWM	28	3:02.000	+20.800	1,071 m	+4.800
18	Yves Giraud-Cabantous	HWM	30	3:06.700	+25.500	1,313 m	+4.700
19	Roy Salvadori	Connaught	50	3:23.000	+41.800	2,153 m	+16.300
20	Harry Schell	Gordini	6	3:25.800	+44.600	2,297 m	+2.800
21	Johnny Claes	Connaught	48	4:06.500	+1:25.300	4,393 m	+40.700
22	Jean Behra	Gordini	2	—	—	—	—
23	Maurice Trintignant	Gordini	4	—	—	—	—
24	Roberto Mieres	Gordini	8	—	—	—	—
25	Louis Chiron	O.S.C.A.	32	—	—	—	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Where this comes from

Round: 5 of 1953
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 5 Jul 1953
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.