1956 Monaco Grand Prix
Racing data | ||
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2nd of 8 races of the 1956 World Automobile Championship | ||
Surname: | XIV Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco | |
Date: | May 13, 1956 | |
Place: | Monte Carlo , Monaco | |
Course: | Circuit de Monaco | |
Length: | 314.5 km in 100 laps of 3.145 km
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Weather: | warm, dry, sunny | |
Pole position | ||
Driver: | Juan Manuel Fangio | Ferrari |
Time: | 1: 44.0 min | |
Fastest lap | ||
Driver: | Juan Manuel Fangio | Ferrari |
Time: | 1: 44.4 min | |
Podium | ||
First: | Stirling Moss | Maserati |
Second: |
Peter Collins Juan Manuel Fangio |
Ferrari |
Third: | Jean Behra | Maserati |
The 1956 Monaco Grand Prix took place on May 13, 1956 on the Circuit de Monaco near Monaco and was the second race of the 1956 World Cup .
Reports
background
After only the two Italian teams Scuderia Ferrari and Maserati and two teams took part in the race with private cars at the season opener in Argentina, the number of participating drivers and teams increased significantly at the 1956 Monaco Grand Prix.
Ferrari only used the new Ferrari D50 for the four regular drivers Juan Manuel Fangio , Eugenio Castellotti , Luigi Musso and Peter Collins . Maserati started with a significantly lower number of cars than in previous races. Stirling Moss , Jean Behra and Cesare Perdisa started for the team. The French team Gordini was back after a race break and used both the new Gordini Type 32 car and the previous year's model Gordini Type 16 . The drivers for Gordini were Robert Manzon , Élie Bayol , André Pilette and Hernando da Silva Ramos . It was Bayol's last Formula 1 race.
The British team Vanwall also took a break from the first race, then used their new Vanwall VW2 car for the first time at the 1956 Monaco Grand Prix . Designed by Colin Chapman , this car was used throughout the season and scored some points. Maurice Trintignant and Harry Schell drove for Vanwall .
Another British team, BRM , also took part in this race, for the first time with a specially designed car. BRM previously competed in various Formula 1 races under the name Owen Racing Organization , but with a private Maserati 250F . The new BRM P25 initially did not score any points, but in the following years it was the basis for successful BRM cars, with which the team won the driver's title and the designer title in 1962 and became one of the most successful teams of the 1960s. At the 1956 Monaco Grand Prix, BRM Mike Hawthorn and Formula 1 debutant Tony Brooks competed.
Furthermore, Louis Rosier , Horace Gould and Giorgio Scarlatti took part in the race with private cars. For Scarlotti it was his first Formula 1 race.
With Fangio and Trintignant, the two drivers who won the two previous Monaco Grands Prix also took part; in the drivers' standings, Fangio was one point behind the driver standings leader Behra.
training
Like the 1956 Argentina Grand Prix, training was previously dominated by Fangio. He put his Ferrari on pole position with a time of 1: 44.0 and was more than half a second faster than his former teammate Moss in the Maserati.
Maserati secured second and fourth on the grid in practice, while Ferrari secured pole position and third on the grid. Castellotti and Behra started behind Fangio and Moss. With a gap of only three tenths of a second to the top Italian teams, Schell and Trintignant qualified in fifth and sixth place at the same time and showed an upward trend at Vanwall.
Perdisa qualified in seventh place, followed by the Ferrari of Musso and Collins. The three Gordini finished ten to twelve on the grid and, with more than three seconds behind the competition, were not competitive this weekend.
Of the drivers with private cars, Rosier and Gould qualified for the race, Scarlatti was too slow with an outdated Ferrari 500 and, 25.1 seconds behind Fangio's pole time, did not qualify.
BRM was forced to withdraw its two new cars because the cars had major engine problems, a similar fate befell Louis Chiron, who also withdrew from the race after an engine failure. With the start he would have surpassed his own record as the oldest participant in a Formula 1 race, which is still valid today.
run
The race was marked by the battle between Ferrari and Maserati. Moss and Castellotti overtook Fangio on the first lap of the race and then fought a duel in which Moss kept the lead and passed Fangio Castellotti again. This duel allowed Moss to extend his lead to more than five seconds within the first lap.
On the second lap of the race, Fangio drove in the curve “St. Devote ”into the route limitation and blocked the route for a short time. Several cars tried to avoid him, but Musso and Schell did not succeed and they collided. For the two of them the race was over, while Fangio drove on with the slightly damaged Ferrari. Lying in fourth place, he started a race to catch up with the leaders.
After Schell's accident, the second Vanwall also retired on lap 13, Trintignant's car overheated and was unable to continue the race. A lap later, Castellotti, who was in second position, was eliminated, making Collins the new second. Behind Collins, Behra and Fangio dueled for third place, which Fangio claimed by overtaking Behra. Then the stable control took over at Ferrari and Collins let his teammate Fangio by so that Fangio was able to continue his chase after the leading Maserati driver Moss unhindered.
On lap 32, Fangio made the next driving error and collided with the track barrier again. He drove the badly damaged car into the pits and handed it over to Castellotti, who had already retired. Fangio himself waited in the pits for Collins, who was instructed by the Ferrari team management to come into the pits and make his car available to Fangio. With this car the reigning world champion tried again to reduce Moss' lead.
With 30 laps to go, Fangio overtook Behra again and was 45 seconds behind Moss. Fangio's aggressive driving style narrowed the gap by more than a second every lap. Moss relied on a conservative and careful driving style and managed the lead.
On lap 86, the leading Moss collided while lapping Perdisa and suffered minor damage to the car. One of the bonnet brackets was destroyed in the process, so that it rose slightly in some bends. Moss reduced his speed significantly in the last laps of the race, so that Fangio caught up two seconds per lap, but could not catch up with the leader.
Moss won the second Grand Prix of his career six seconds ahead of Fangio, who shared the points for second place with Collins. For Collins it was his first career podium and the first points. It was the first time in Formula 1 history that two British drivers stood on the podium.
The podium was completed by Behra, who kept the lead in the drivers' championship with one point ahead of Fangio. Castellotti crossed the finish line in fourth place with the badly damaged car of Fangio and received half of the points, while Fangio only received half points for second place and an additional one for the fastest lap. Da Silva Ramos in Gordini achieved fifth position and received the only points of his career.
Moss caught up with victory in the drivers' championship and was one point behind Fangio in third place.
Registration list
Remarks
- ↑ Élie Bayol and André Pilette drove the car 44 laps each.
- ↑ Juan Manuel Fangio drove the car 40 laps, Eugenio Castellotti 54 laps.
- ↑ Peter Collins drove the car 54 laps, Juan Manuel Fangio 46 laps.
Classifications
Starting grid
Item | driver | constructor | time | Ø speed | begin |
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1 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Ferrari | 1: 44.0 | 108.87 km / h | 1 |
2 | Stirling Moss | Maserati | 1: 44.6 | 108.24 km / h | 2 |
3 | Eugenio Castellotti | Ferrari | 1: 44.9 | 107.93 km / h | 3 |
4th | Jean Behra | Maserati | 1: 45.3 | 107.52 km / h | 4th |
5 | Harry Schell | Vanwall | 1: 45.6 | 107.22 km / h | 5 |
6th | Maurice Trintignant | Vanwall | 1: 45.6 | 107.22 km / h | 6th |
7th | Cesare Perdisa | Maserati | 1: 46.0 | 106.81 km / h | 7th |
8th | Luigi Musso | Ferrari | 1: 46.8 | 106.01 km / h | 8th |
9 | Peter Collins | Ferrari | 1: 47.0 | 105.81 km / h | 9 |
10 | Élie Bayol | Gordini | 1: 50.0 | 102.93 km / h | 10 |
11 | Robert Manzon | Gordini | 1: 50.3 | 102.65 km / h | 11 |
12 | Hernando da Silva Ramos | Gordini | 1: 50.6 | 102.37 km / h | 12 |
13 | Louis Rosier | Maserati | 1: 51.5 | 101.45 km / h | 13 |
14th | Horace Gould | Maserati | 1: 51.7 | 101.36 km / h | 14th |
15th | Giorgio Scarlatti | Ferrari | 2: 09.1 | 87.70 km / h | DNQ |
run
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
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1 | Stirling Moss | Maserati | 100 | 3: 00: 32.9 | 2 | |||
2 |
Peter Collins Juan Manuel Fangio |
Ferrari | 100 | + 6.1 | 9 | |||
3 | Jean Behra | Maserati | 99 | + 1 lap | 4th | |||
4th |
Juan Manuel Fangio Eugenio Castellotti |
Ferrari | 94 | + 6 rounds | 1 | |||
5 | Hernando da Silva Ramos | Gordini | 93 | + 7 rounds | 12 | |||
6th |
Élie Bayol André Pilette |
Gordini | 88 | + 12 rounds | 10 | |||
7th | Cesare Perdisa | Maserati | 86 | + 14 rounds | 7th | |||
8th | Horace Gould | Maserati | 85 | + 15 rounds | 14th | |||
- | Robert Manzon | Gordini | 90 | DNF | 11 | accident | ||
- | Louis Rosier | Maserati | 72 | DNF | 13 | Engine failure | ||
- | Eugenio Castellotti | Ferrari | 14th | DNF | 3 | coupling | ||
- | Maurice Trintignant | Vanwall | 13 | DNF | 6th | Overheating | ||
- | Luigi Musso | Ferrari | 2 | DNF | 8th | accident | ||
- | Harry Schell | Vanwall | 2 | DNF | 5 | accident | ||
- | Tony Brooks | BRM | 0 | DNS | Valve | |||
- | Louis Chiron | Maserati | 0 | DNS | engine | |||
- | Mike Hawthorn | BRM | 0 | DNS | engine |
World Cup stand after the race
The first five of the race got 8, 6, 4, 3, 2 points. The driver with the fastest race lap received an additional 1 point. Only the five best results from eight races counted.
In 1956, points were awarded according to the following scheme:
1st place | place 2 | place 3 | 4th place | 5th place | Fastest lap |
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8th | 6th | 4th | 3 | 2 | 1 |
- Only the five best results from eight races counted. Deleted results are shown in brackets.
- The numbers marked with * include the point for the fastest lap.
- Fields marked in the same color indicate shared vehicles.
Item | driver | constructor | Points | ||||||||
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1. | Juan Manuel Fangio | Ferrari Lancia | 5 * | 3 + 1.5 * | 10.5 | ||||||
2. | Jean Behra | Maserati | 6th | 4th | 10 | ||||||
3. | Stirling Moss | Maserati | 8th | 8th | |||||||
4th | Mike Hawthorn | Maserati | 4th | 4th | |||||||
Luigi Musso | Ferrari Lancia | 4th | 4th | ||||||||
6th | Peter Collins | Ferrari | 3 * | 3 | |||||||
7th | Olivier Gendebien | Ferrari Lancia | 2 | 2 | |||||||
Hernando da Silva Ramos | Gordini | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
9. | Gerino Gerini | Maserati | 1.5 | 1.5 | |||||||
Chico Landi | Maserati | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||||||||
Eugenio Castellotti | Ferrari Lancia | 1.5 | 1.5 |
Individual evidence