1953 Formula One season

The Argentine Grand Prix hosted its first World Championship Grand Prix in 1953, the race was held at Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez on 18 January.

The Dutch Grand Prix was moved from mid August to early June.

The French Grand Prix was moved from Rouen-Les-Essarts to Reims-Gueux.

The Swiss Grand Prix was moved from mid May to late August.

The Spanish Grand Prix was scheduled to be held on 26 October but it was cancelled for monetary reasons.[2]

Championship points were awarded to the first five finishers in each race on an 8–6–4–3–2 basis. Points for shared drives were divided equally between the drivers, regardless of the number of laps driven by each. One point was also awarded for the fastest lap in each race. The point was shared equally between drivers sharing the fastest lap. Only the best four results from the nine races counted towards a driver's total points in the World Championship. In the points column, numbers without parentheses are retained championship points, and numbers within parentheses are total points scored.

Pos. Driver ARG 500‡ NED BEL FRA GBR GER SUI ITA Pts. 1 Alberto Ascari 1PF 1P (1) (4)P 1PF* 8P†/ (RetF)† 1F RetP 34.5 (46.5) 2 Juan Manuel Fangio Ret Ret RetP/ Ret† 2F 2 2 (4P†) / Ret† 1F 28 (29.5) 3 Nino Farina Ret 2 Ret (5) (3) 1 2 2 26 (32) 4 Mike Hawthorn 4 (4) 6 1 (5) 3 3 (4) 19 (27) 5 Luigi Villoresi 2 RetF 2 6 Ret 8† / Ret† 6 3 17 6 José Froilán González 3 3† (RetF) 3 4F* 13.5 (14.5) 7 Bill Vukovich 1PF 9 8 Toulo de Graffenried 5 4 7 Ret 5 Ret Ret 7 9 Felice Bonetto Ret 3† Ret 6 4 4† / Ret† Ret 6.5 10 Art Cross 2 6 11 Onofre Marimón 3 9 Ret Ret Ret Ret 4 12 Maurice Trintignant 7† 6 5 Ret Ret Ret Ret 5 4 13 Sam Hanks 3† 2 14 Duane Carter 3† 2 15 Óscar Alfredo Gálvez 5 2 16 Jack McGrath 5 2 17 Hermann Lang 5 2 18 Fred Agabashian 4† 1.5 19 Paul Russo 4† 1.5 — Stirling Moss 9 Ret 6 13 0 — Jean Behra 6 Ret 10 Ret Ret Ret 0 — Roberto Mieres Ret Ret 6 0 — Jimmy Daywalt 6 0 — Harry Schell 7† Ret 7 Ret Ret Ret 9 0 — Louis Rosier 7 8 8 10 10 Ret 16 0 — Ken Wharton Ret Ret 8 7 NC 0 — Birabongse Bhanudej Ret 7 Ret 11 0 — Jacques Swaters DNS 7 Ret 0 — Jim Rathmann 7 0 — Sergio Mantovani 7† 0 — Luigi Musso 7† 0 — Peter Collins 8 Ret 13 Ret 0 — John Barber 8 0 — Ernie McCoy 8 0 — Max de Terra 8 0 — Umberto Maglioli 8 0 — Alan Brown 9 Ret Ret 12 0 — Fred Wacker DNS 9 DNS 0 — Tony Bettenhausen 9 0 — Peter Whitehead 9 0 — Hans Herrmann 9 0 — Albert Scherrer 9 0 — Louis Chiron 15 DNS DNS 10 0 — Paul Frère 10 Ret 0 — Jimmy Davies 10 0 — Duke Nalon 11 0 — André Pilette 11 0 — Bob Gerard 11 Ret 0 — Rodney Nuckey 11 0 — Johnny Claes NC Ret† 12 Ret Ret 0 — Carl Scarborough 12 0 — Theo Helfrich 12 0 — Kenneth McAlpine Ret Ret 13 NC 0 — Manny Ayulo 13 0 — Yves Giraud-Cabantous 14 15 0 — Hans Stuck Ret 14 0 — Jimmy Bryan 14 0 — Rudolf Krause 14 0 — Bill Holland 15 0 — Ernst Klodwig 15 0 — Rodger Ward 16 0 — Wolfgang Seidel 16 0 — Walt Faulkner 17 0 — Jack Fairman Ret NC 0 — Lance Macklin Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 0 — Roy Salvadori Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 0 — Élie Bayol Ret DNS Ret 0 — Chico Landi Ret Ret 0 — Robert Manzon Ret 0 — Carlos Menditeguy Ret 0 — Pablo Birger Ret 0 — Adolfo Schwelm Cruz Ret 0 — Marshall Teague Ret 0 — Spider Webb Ret 0 — Bob Sweikert Ret 0 — Mike Nazaruk Ret 0 — Pat Flaherty Ret 0 — Jerry Hoyt Ret 0 — Johnnie Parsons Ret 0 — Don Freeland Ret 0 — Gene Hartley Ret 0 — Chuck Stevenson Ret 0 — Cal Niday Ret 0 — Bob Scott Ret 0 — Andy Linden Ret 0 — Johnny Thomson Ret 0 — Georges Berger Ret 0 — Arthur Legat Ret 0 — Jimmy Stewart Ret 0 — Tony Rolt Ret 0 — Ian Stewart Ret 0 — Duncan Hamilton Ret 0 — Tony Crook Ret 0 — Edgar Barth Ret 0 — Oswald Karch Ret 0 — Willi Heeks Ret 0 — Theo Fitzau Ret 0 — Kurt Adolff Ret 0 — Günther Bechem Ret 0 — Ernst Loof Ret 0 — Erwin Bauer Ret 0 — Peter Hirt Ret 0 — Piero Carini Ret 0 — John Fitch Ret 0 — Charles de Tornaco DNS 0 — Helmut Glöckler DNS 0 Pos. Driver ARG 500‡ NED BEL FRA GBR GER SUI ITA Pts.

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Other points position Blue Other classified position Not classified, finished (NC) Purple Not classified, retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Excluded (EX) Did not arrive (DNA) Withdrawn (WD) Did not enter (empty cell) Annotation Meaning P Pole position F Fastest lap

• † Position shared between more drivers of the same car
• * Point for fastest lap shared between different drivers.
• ‡ Several cars were shared in this race. See the race page for details.

Race name	Circuit	Date	Winning driver	Constructor	Report
I Strassen-Rennen Karl-Marx-Stadt	Karl-Marx-Stadt	3 May	Rudolf Krause	BMW-Reif	Report
I Paul Greifzu Gedachtnisrennen	Dessau	7 June	Edgar Barth	EMW	Report
IV Strassen-rennen Halle-Saale-Schleife	Halle-Saale-Schleife	5 July	Edgar Barth	EMW	Report
I Dresden Autobahnspinne	Dresden-Hellerau	26 July	Edgar Barth	EMW	Report
V Sachsenringrennen	Sachsenring	6 September	Edgar Barth	EMW-BMW	Report
II Bernau Autobahnschleife	Bernau	27 September	Arthur Rosenhammer	EMW	Report

The Bernau race was not part of the East German Championship.

The table below shows the points awarded for each race. Only East German drivers were eligible for points.

Place	Driver	Entrant	Car	KAR	DES	HAL	DRE	SAC	Total
1	Edgar Barth	EMW Rennkollektiv	EMW 52/53-BMW 328		6	6	6	6	24
2	Rudolf Krause	Greifzu-Sühl	Greifzu-BMW 328	6	4	4		4	18
3	Karl Weber	BSG Motor	Werkmeister-BMW 328	4	3			2	9
4	Ernst Klodwig	BSG Motor	Lodwig-Heck-BMW 328			2		3	5
5	Kurt Straubel	BSG Motor	Eigenbau-BMW 328				4		4
6	Paul Thiel	EMW Rennkollektiv	EMW 52/53-BMW 328			3			3
=	Heinz Melkus	BSGN Sedlitz	ARO-Veritas-Alfa Romeo	3					3
8	Bobby Kohlrauch	Greifzu-Sühl	Greifzu-BMW 328		2				2