died a few minutes later. The crash occurred on the Curva del Vialone, one of the track's challenging high-speed corners. The corner where the accident happened, renamed in his honour, has been subsequently replaced with a chicane, now called Variante Ascari. Motor racing fans from all over mourned, as Ascari was laid to rest next to the grave of his father in the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan, to be forever remembered as one of the greatest racers of all time. His distraught wife Mietta Ascari told Enzo Ferrari that "were it not for their children she would gladly have joined her beloved Alberto in heaven". His death is often considered to be a contributing factor to the withdrawal of Lancia from motor racing in 1955, just three days after his funeral (though the company was also in considerable financial trouble, needing a government subsidy to survive), handing his team, drivers, cars and spare parts over to Enzo Ferrari. Legacy A street in Rome (in the Esposizione Universale Roma area) is named in his honour, while both the Autodromo Nazionale Monza and Autodromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez have chicanes named after him. In 1992, he was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. The British supercar manufacturer Ascari Cars is named in his honour. Italian-born American racing legend Mario Andretti counts Ascari as one of his racing heroes, having watched him at the Monza circuit in his youth. Alberto Ascari also appears in Mark Sullivan's novel Beneath a Scarlet Sky. In 1972 one of the chicanes at the Monza circuit was named in his honor Variante Ascari. Ascari was inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame in December 2017. In 2009, an Autosport survey taken by 217 Formula One drivers saw Ascari voted as the sixteenth greatest F1 driver of all time. In 2020, Carteret Analytics used quantitative analysis methods to rank Formula One drivers. According to this ranking, Ascari is Formula 1's fourth best driver of all time. Racing record Career highlights Complete Formula One World Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; Races in italics indicate fastest lap) * Indicates shared drive with Dorino Serafini † Indicates shared drive with José Froilán González ‡ Indicates shared drive with Luigi Villoresi Non-championship Formula One results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; Races in italics indicate fastest lap) * Indicates shared drive with Luigi Villoresi † Indicates shared