Ascari

Number Thirty Five!
Officially halfway there folks!! Coz guess who added more to the list

And what a legend
First back to back champion

Fangio's greatest rival

His familiar is named after the track in Italy. The world's third purpose-built racetrack (after Brooklands and Indianapolis) and Italy is where Ascari is from. Monza is also where Ascari died; a strange death indeed as seen below in his bio (when i do it). He died at 36, and he's my 35th, so close.

Why does he remind me of Winnie the Pooh

Not gonna lie
Theres so many pictures of Ascari just stood around looking slightly unimpressed
Its a big mood

A huge thank you to Scultone for selling me this boyo

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Formula One World Championship career Nationality: Italian Active years: 1950–1955 Teams: Ferrari, Maserati, Lancia Entries: 33 (32 starts) Championships: 2 (1952, 1953) Wins: 13 Podiums: 17 Career points: 107 9⁄14 (140 1⁄7) Pole positions: 14 Fastest laps: 12 First entry: 1950 Monaco Grand Prix First win: 1951 German Grand Prix Last win: 1953 Swiss Grand Prix Last entry: 1955 Monaco Grand Prix Alberto Ascari (13 July 1918 – 26 May 1955) was an Italian racing driver and twice Formula One World Champion. He was a multitalented racer who competed in motorcycle racing before switching to cars. Ascari won consecutive world titles in 1952 and 1953 for Scuderia Ferrari. He was the team's first World Champion and the last Italian to date to win the title. This was sandwiched by an appearance in the 1952 Indianapolis 500. Ascari also won the Mille Miglia in 1954. Ascari was noted for the careful precision and finely-judged accuracy that made him one of the safest drivers in a most dangerous era. Ascari remains along with Michael Schumacher Ferrari's only back-to-back World Champions, and he is also Ferrari's sole Italian champion. As the first driver to win multiple World Championship titles, he held the record for most World Championship titles in 1952–54, as a result he is one of 4 drivers to have held the record for most World Championship titles. Juan Manuel Fangio held the record in 1951-52 and 1954-2002 (jointly with Ascari in 1952 and 1954) and Michael Schumacher has held the record since 2002, although Schumacher now also shares that record with Lewis Hamilton.

When Alberto was a young child, his father, Antonio, who was also a famous racing driver, died in an accident at the 1925 French Grand Prix. Alberto once admitted that he warned his children not to become extremely close to him because of the risk involved in his profession. Unfortunately, his warning proved true when he was killed during a test session for Scuderia Ferrari at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza. Ascari was notoriously superstitious and took great pains to avoid tempting fate. His unexplained fatal accident – at the same age as his father's, on the same day of the month and in eerily similar circumstances – remains one of Formula One racing's great tragic coincidences.

There were several similarities between the deaths of Alberto and his father. Alberto Ascari died on 26 May 1955, at the age of 36. Antonio Ascari was also 36 when he died, on 26 July 1925 (Alberto was only four days older). Both were killed four days after surviving serious accidents and on the 26th day of the month. Both had crashed fatally at the exit of fast left-hand corners and both left behind a wife and two children. Also, both had won 13 championship Grands Prix. Another curiosity related to Alberto's death is that the only other driver to crash into the harbour at Monaco in the circuit's history, Paul Hawkins, also died on 26 May. Hawkins crashed into the harbour 10 years after Ascari, before dying when his Lola crashed into a tree at a Tourist Trophy race at Oulton Park in 1969.

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