Alberto Ascari, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian racing driver
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Place of Birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
About Alberto Ascari
- Alberto Ascari (Italian pronunciation: [al'b?rto 'askari]; 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 an appearance in the Indianapolis 500 in 1952.
- 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 3 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. 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.
- So this proved 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.
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