22 June in Ferrari history: Felipe Massa and Alberto Ascari win
22 June links Ferrari one-two finishes separated by more than half a century. Alberto Ascari led the team home in Belgium in 1952, while Felipe Massa won ahead of Kimi Räikkönen in France in 2008.
2008: Felipe Massa wins at Magny-Cours
Felipe Massa won the French Grand Prix with Kimi Räikkönen second and Jarno Trulli third for Toyota. An exhaust problem slowed Kimi Räikkönen, allowing Felipe Massa to take the lead.
Despite that setback, Ferrari retained both leading positions at the finish. Felipe Massa completed the 70 laps 17.984 seconds ahead of his team-mate, securing a result that belongs among the major successes of his 2008 campaign.
Explore that season in the Felipe Massa Formula 1 records and statistics.
1952: Alberto Ascari leads Ferrari home at Spa
On 22 June 1952, Alberto Ascari won the Belgian Grand Prix ahead of Giuseppe Farina. The race lasted more than three hours on the historic Spa-Francorchamps circuit, with the Ferrari drivers separated by almost two minutes at the finish.
It was Alberto Ascari’s first World Championship victory of the season. He went on to win each of the five remaining championship races, making Belgium the beginning of a remarkable sequence.
Ferrari anniversaries on 22 June
June 22 in Ferrari Formula 1 history
Explore Ferrari Grand Prix results, qualifying and Sprint sessions, driver birthdays, remembrance dates and selected milestones connected with this day.
Ferrari Grands Prix held on June 22
Ferrari qualifying sessions on June 22
Race, qualifying, Sprint and Ferrari driver biographical dates are generated from the locally processed F1DB dataset. Session anniversaries are shown only when an explicit session date is available in the source. Selected non-race Ferrari milestones are curated separately from Ferrari sources. Historical shared-car result rows are preserved without inventing additional Grand Prix starts.
Discover more connections between Ferrari eras in the Ferrari history calendar.
