1953 Italian Grand Prix

The battle between the Italian teams Ferrari and Maserati continued at the final stage in Monza, although the pilot Ferrari Askari has already won the championship title, and Enzo Ferrari announced the departure of the team at the end of the season from Formula 1.

But despite this circumstance, the team at this stage was also represented by two more pilots: Umberto Maloli and Piero Carini . Maserati was represented by: Juan Manuel Fangio , Onofre Marimon , Felice Bonetto , Tulo de Graffenried , and two newcomers - Sergio Mantovani and Luigi Musso . Jose Froilan Gonzales still could not take part.

The qualifications were still the complete dominance of the pilots Maserati and Ferrari.

This time, Fangio started unsuccessfully, missing a whole group of riders, and Askari and Farina were the first to leave. But even on the first lap Marimon passed both Ferrari, and after Fangio, who had gathered himself in control, drove up to them, a long beautiful battle began inside this four.

About halfway through the race, Marimon rolled back after his problems with the radiator, but still managed to return to the leading group. All the same group consisting of: (Askari, Farina, Fangio, Marimon) soon overtook the circular Villorezi and Hawthorne fighting among themselves, and although Hawthorne soon lagged behind, the pilots went to the last lap in a dense group of five cars.

In the last turn, Askari and Farina were side by side, Askari could not hold his car and began to skid, and if Farina, in order to avoid a collision, sent her car directly to the grass, then Marimon had nowhere to go, he crashed into a double world champion. Fangio safely traveled all over and won the race, the first and only in 1953. But this victory allowed the Argentine to become vice champion.

Farina managed to leave the grass in time, in order to become second, Villorezi finished the race in third place.

• Car Exchange - Car # 56: Mantovani (38 laps) then Musso (38 laps)
• Alberto Askari won his second and last league title in a row.

• 1953 Italian Grand Prix (Russian) on wildsoft.motorsport.com
• 1953 Italian Grand Prix at grandprix.com
• Lang, Mike. Grand Prix! Vol 1. - Haynes Publishing Group, 1981. - P. 65. - ISBN 0-85429-276-4 .