Alberto Ascari, Froilan Gonzalez, Guiseppe Farina (from left to right), and a mechanic mb-code DCA_100013 In the novel

In the novel

Manager Alf Ramsey talking to his players

Deptford Docks

Isle of Man

St Katherine Coleman and St Andrew Undershaft

Alberto Ascari, Froilan Gonzalez, Guiseppe Farina (from left to right), and a mechanic mb-code DCA_100013 In the novelAlberto Ascari, Froilan Gonzalez, Guiseppe Farina (from left to right), and a mechanic. Ascari won every Grand Prix in 1952, and didn't lose a race until the middle of 1953. He performed the unrepeated feat of winning nine straight Grands Prix. Jose Froilan Gonzalez had the unusual distinction of winning the first Championship Grand Prix he entered, the 1951 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, in which he drove a Ferrari. Farina won the first official