Alberto Ascari won two Formula One World Championships, in 1952 and in 1953, winning 31 races out of 35. Mechanically speaking this car is an F2, according to the new regulations of the time, but in Maranello no energy is saved and the Ferrari 500 F2 wins the first races of its long and successful career. Enzo Ferrari donated it to the Museum in 1956, personally signing no less than five letters in which he offered the single-seater that had belonged to his “late and beloved Alberto Ascari” as his contribution to the constitution of the Museum.
