Talk:1952 Formula One season

This season the World championship was raced with F2 ! Ericd 21:04, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

After the retirement of Alfa Romeo from Formula One it had been hoped by the Championship organisers that the then-new BRM team would be competing that year with the Type 15 V16-powered car, however Raymond Mays withdrew the two cars just before a race at Turin as he was trying to get Fangio as a driver alongside Stirling Moss. This he eventually achieved, but unfortunately this meant withdrawing the cars, and this left the GP organisers with no-one but Ferrari as potential winners for that season. With no credible opposition to Ferrari, (the BRM Type 15 had serious reliability problems initially, and its entry into Formula One racing had been delayed so that it was beginning to look to the Championship organisers that it might not be a raceable car) the decision was taken to run all the remaining races for that season as Formula Two ones. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.112.62.235 (talk) 13:46, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

WD??

What does it mean "WD". It appears to Lance Macklin and Stirling Moss at the Swiss Grand Prix. Thanks!! --Godfroid 10:33, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

It means "withdrew" or "withdrawn", i.e. when a driver retired from a race voluntarily, rather than due to a mechanical failure or an accident. In this particular case, Collins and Abecassis (both driving HWMs) had suffered similar mechanical failures, so the HWM team manager called in Macklin and Moss as a precautionary measure. DH85868993 11:41, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok! Thanks a lot. I didn't understood the abbreviation. --Godfroid 15:21, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Math challenged

OK, how does Ascari get 53.5 points & have 36 count? If it's 8 points per win, that's 48. Is he getting 5.5 points for retiring at Indy? Either way, if it's 8 points per win & only 4 count, that's 32. Does that also mean he got fast lap at least 4 times? TREKphiler ^{any time you're ready, Uhura} 10:23, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Ascari's points scores were as follows:

• SUI: 0
• 500: 0
• BEL: 9 (= 8 points for the win + 1 point for fastest lap)
• FRA: 9 (ditto)
• GBR: 9 (ditto)
• GER: 9 (ditto)
• NED: 9 (ditto)
• ITA: 8.5 (8 points for the win + 0.5 points for shared fastest lap)

Total points = 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 8.5 = 53.5. Championship points = best 4 scores = 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 = 36. DH85868993 (talk) 11:35, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

It does demonstrate that perhaps the points explanation should be moved downwards closer to the results matrix. --Falcadore (talk) 12:30, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Thx to you both. Also thx for the fast service. :D It appears footnotes for points (explaining this sort of thing) might be worth adding, & not just here. TREKphiler ^{any time you're ready, Uhura} 15:32, 28 April 2011 (UTC)