Ferrari won 7 races out of 9, and the world title went to Alberto Ascari.
Ferrari and Ascari kept their run going: he won five races and a second consecutive title, and his wins from the 1952 Belgian Grand Prix through to the 1953 Belgian Grand Prix made a streak of nine races in a row, not counting the Indianapolis 500.
At the French Grand Prix at Reims, Mike Hawthorn beat Juan Manuel Fangio by about a second after a long duel. Fangio won the last race of the season, at Monza, in a Maserati and finished second in the championship.
Written from the facts · checked by our editorsThe constructors’ championship only began in 1958.