1956 Monza 1000 km race

Ferrari 500TR

Arthur Rosenhammer contested one of his few races outside of the GDR: he retired after 55 laps due to gearbox damage

The third 1000 km race of Monza , also IV Gran Premio Supercortemaggiore - La 1000 km. di Monza, Autodromo di Monza , took place on June 24, 1956 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza . The race was not part of any racing series.

The race

In almost all publications, the 1965 Monza 1000 km race is considered the first long-distance race on the traditional Monza circuit. In fact, this event was the fourth of its kind. As early as 1954, 1955 and 1956, 1000 km races were held in Monza. Officially these races were called Supercortemaggiore and were organized by the state-owned Italian lottery company. In Italy , the 6 out of 90 lottery form was and is popular across the country. With part of the betting income, the sport was promoted until the 1980s. The youngsters in motorsport - organizers, drivers and teams - also received generous support. Many later top Italian drivers, some of whom even made it to the top single-posto class , Formula 1 , owed their entry into professional sport to the state lottery.

In the 1950s, the 1000 km race even supported its own racing event. The high prize money was particularly attractive for the teams and drivers. After the success of Mike Hawthorn and Umberto Maglioli in the factory - Ferrari 735S in 1954 and the overall victory of Maserati in 1955 with the crew of Jean Behra and Luigi Musso in the 300S , the number of participants rose to 66 teams in 1956, of which 41 finally entered the race.

Only two racing classes were allowed; Sports cars up to 2 or 1.5 liter displacement. The Maserati works team provided the largest contingent of vehicles with six sports cars - 200S and 150S . Ferrari relied on the 2-liter sports cars 500TR and 500 Mondial . The 1000 km race was one of the few international racing events in which the East German state racing collective took part. Two AWE 1500RS were registered for Edgar Barth , Arthur Rosenhammer , Paul Thiel and Egon Binner; whereby the Thiel / Binner team could not qualify for the race.

The 10 km long route including the banked bends was driven, which led to average speeds of over 200 km / h. The race turned into the expected duel between the works cars from Ferrari and Maserati, which Scuderia Ferrari narrowly won. After a driving time of 5: 07: 13.900 hours, Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins won by 27 seconds over the Maserati of Cesare Perdisa and Stirling Moss .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	S 2.0	64	Scuderia Ferrari	Peter Collins Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari 500TR Touring	100
2	S 2.0	2	Officine Maserati	Cesare Perdisa Stirling Moss	Maserati 200S	100
3	S 2.0	63	Scuderia Ferrari	Eugenio Castellotti Juan Manuel Fangio	Ferrari 500TR Touring	100
4th	S 2.0	65	Scuderia Ferrari	Olivier Gendebien Alfonso de Portago	Ferrari 500TR Touring	98
5	S 1.5	26th	Soc. On. Osca	Luigi Villoresi Umberto Maglioli	Osca MT4 1500	96
6th	S 2.0	35	Amédée Gordini	Robert Manzon Hernando da Silva Ramos	Gordini T15S 2.0	94
7th	S 2.0	58	Gaetano Starrabba	Gaetano Starrabba Giorgio Mejer	Ferrari 500TR Scaglietti	94
8th	S 1.5	5	Officine Maserati	André Simon Piero Taruffi	Maserati 150S	93
9	S 1.5	27	Soc. On. Osca	Louis Chiron Giulio Cabianca	Osca MT4 1500	92
10	S 2.0	62	Anna Maria Peduzzi	Anna Maria Peduzzi Gilberte Thirion	Ferrari 500TR Scaglietti	92
11	S 2.0	61	Franco Cortese	Franco Cortese Enzo Pinzero	Ferrari 500TR Scaglietti	92
12	S 2.0	54	Jean Guichet	Jean Guichet Paul Maret	Ferrari 500TR	91
13	S 1.5	41	William Buff	William Buff Wolfgang Seidel	Porsche 550	90
14th	S 2.0	24	Scuderia Centro Sud	Giuseppe Musso Franco Ribaldi	Maserati A6GCS	89
15th	S 1.5	38	Claude Storez	Claude Storez Auguste Veuillet	Porsche 550RS	89
16	S 2.0	14th	Ambrogio Arosio	Giulio Musitelli Luciano Massironi	Maserati A6GCS	89
17th	S 2.0	59	Ottavio Guarducci	Ottavio Guarducci Giuseppe Rossi	Ferrari 500 Mondial Scaglietti	88
18th	S 1.5	37	Michael May	Michael May Pierre May	Porsche 550RS	88
19th	S 2.0	15th	Alberico Cacciari	Mario Ricci Alberico Cacciari	Maserati A6GCS	87
20th	S 2.0	22nd	Scuderia Centro Sud	Giorgio Scarlatti Azzurro Manzini	Maserati A6GCS	81
Not classified
21st	S 2.0	16	Arrigo Maccarini	Renzo Cigarini Arrigo Maccarini	Maserati A6GCS	78
22nd	S 2.0	21st	Scuderia Centro Sud	Aldo Pedini Antonio Pucci	Maserati A6GCS	77
Failed
23	S 2.0	4th	Officine Maserati	Luigi Piotti Louis Rosier	Maserati A6GCS	85
24	S 2.0	55	Piero Carini	Piero Carini Franco Bordoni-Bisleri	Ferrari 500 Mondial Scaglietti	77
25th	S 1.5	7th	Officine Maserati	Jack Fairman Maria Teresa de Filippis	Maserati 150S	72
26th	S 2.0	44	Scuderia Centro Sud	Jean-Claude Vidilles Georges Houel	Maserati A6GCS	62
27	S 1.5	46	Scuderia Madunina	Carlo Tomasi Alejandro de Tomaso	Maserati 150S	61
28	S 1.5	6th	Officine Maserati	Francesco Giardini André Pilette	Maserati 150S	58
29	S 1.5	33	Alfred Hartmann	Edgar Barth Arthur Rosenhammer	AWE 1500RS	55
30th	S 1.5	48	Scuderia Madunina	Amelio Garavaglia Nello Pagani	Maserati 150S	44
31	S 2.0	56	Equipe Nationale Belge	Paul Brother André Milhoux	Ferrari 500TR Scaglietti	38
32	S 2.0	60	Bruno Gavazzoli	Gerino Gerini Bruno Gavazzoli	Ferrari 500 Mondial Scaglietti	32
33	S 2.0	49	Scuderia Madunina	Angelo Benzoni Mario Tramontana	Maserati A6GCS	31
34	S 1.5	30th	David Piper	David Piper Mark Lund	Lotus Eleven	26th
35	S 2.0	52	Cerle Los Amigos	Fernand Tavano Jean Lucas	Ferrari 500TR Scaglietti	26th
36	S 1.5	9	Officine Maserati	Chico Landi Gilberto Cornacchia	Maserati 150S	23
37	S 2.0	20th	Scuderia Centro Sud	Toulo de Graffenried André Canonica	Ferrari 500 Mondial Scaglietti	17th
38	S 1.5	10	Claude Bourillot	Claude Bourillot Henri Perroud	Maserati 150S	12
39	S 1.5	11	Scuderia Bonnier	Herbert MacKay-Fraser Joakim Bonnier	Maserati 150S	4th
40	S 2.0	66	Scuderia Ferrari	Wolfgang von Trips Hans Herrmann	Ferrari 500 Mondial Scaglietti	2
41	S 1.5	1	Officine Maserati	Stirling Moss Piero Taruffi	Maserati 200S	1
Not started
42	S 2.0		Officine Maserati	Giuseppe Farina Cesare Perdisa	Maserati 200S	1
43	S 2.0	31	Michael Anthony	Michael Anthony Mark Lund	Lotus Eleven	2
Not qualified
44	S 1.5	34	Alfred Hartmann	Paul Thiel Egon Binner	AWE 1500RS	3

¹ Accident in training ² not started ³ not qualified

Only in the entry list

Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
45	S 1.5	29	Mike Hawthorn	Mike Hawthorn Duncan Hamilton	Lotus Eleven
46	S 1.5		Maserati		Lotus Eleven
47	S 2.0	3	Officine Maserati	Luigi Bellucci Franco Cornacchia	Maserati
48	S 1.5	8th	Officine Maserati	Guido Perrella Giuseppe Ruggero	Maserati 150S
49	S 2.0	12	Georges Guyot	Georges Guyot René Cotton	Maserati
50	S 1.5	18th	Vincenzo Sorrentino	Vincenzo Sorrentino Mennato Boffa	Maserati 150S
51	S 2.0	19th	Scuderia Sette Colli	Giuseppe-Maria Favero	Maserati
52	S 2.0	23	Scuderia Centro Sud		Maserati
53	S 2.0	25th	Scuderia Centro Sud	Guglielmo Dei Giuseppe Rossi	Maserati
54	S 2.0	28	Grant Gregor Auto-Sport	Cliff Davis Peter Jopp	Lotus Eleven
55	S 1.5	32	Grant Gregor Auto-Sport	Colin Chapman Jack Sears	Lotus Eleven
56	S 1.5	36	Amédée Gordini		Gordini T15S 1.5
57	S 1.5	39	Scuderia Ambrosiana	Carlo Leto di Priolo Richard von Frankenberg	Porsche
58	S 1.5	40	Theo Helfrich	Theo Helfrich	Porsche
59	S 1.5	42	Karl Busch	Karl Busch Franz Gros	Porsche
60	S 1.5	43	Rolf Knoch	Rolf Knoch Günter Besier	Porsche
61	S 1.5	45	Scuderia S. Ambroeus	Luciano Mantovani Umberto Castiglioni	Osca 1100
62	S 1.5	49	Scuderia Madunina	Angelo Benzoni Luciano Gramegna	Ferrari
63	S 1.5	50	Scuderia Madunina	Isabelle Haskell Luigi Bettiol	Maserati 150S
64	S 1.5	51	Fernand Masoreo	Fernand Masoreo Aristide Molteni	Alfa Romeo
65	S 1.5	53	Cerle Los Amigos	Louis Cornet Jean-Claude Vidilles	Maserati 150S
66	S 2.0	57	Siro Sbraci	Siro Sbraci Piero Scotti	Ferrari 500 Mondial

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S 2.0	Peter Collins	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari 500TR	Overall victory
S 1.5	Luigi Villoresi	Umberto Maglioli	Osca MT4 1500	Rank 5

Racing data

• Registered: 66
• Started: 41
• Rated: 20
• Race classes: 2
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: sunny and warm
• Route length: 10,000 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 5:07: 13,900 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 100
• Total distance of the winning team: 1000.204 km
• Winner's average: 195.293 km / h
• Pole position: Stirling Moss - Maserati 200S (# 1) - 2: 59.400
• Fastest race lap: Peter Collins - Ferrari 500TR (# 64) - 2: 58,400 - 201.793 km / h
• Racing series: did not belong to any racing series

literature

• Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .

Web links

• Race results at WSPR Racing