1956 Monaco Grand Prix

The 1956 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 13 May 1956 at Monaco. It was race 2 of 8 in the 1956 World Championship of Drivers.

1956 Monaco Grand Prix
Race details
Date 13 May 1956
Official name XIV Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco
Location Circuit de Monaco
Course Street Circuit
Course length 3.145 km (1.954 mi)
Distance 100 laps, 314.500 km (195.421 mi)
Weather Warm, dry, sunny
Pole position
Driver
Ferrari
Time 1:44.0
Fastest lap
Driver Juan Manuel Fangio Ferrari
Time 1:44.4
Podium
First
Maserati
Second
Ferrari
Third
Maserati

The Owen's B.R.M. made their first appearance but after qualifying both cars were withdrawn due to engine valve problems. The other two non-starters were also teammates: the too slow Scarlatti and Chiron due to his engine blowing up in practice.

Moss, starting from the middle of the front row, took the lead at Gasworks on the first lap and led every lap. Fangio was not having a good day. He hit the straw bales on lap 2, causing Schell and Musso to retire when trying to avoid him, and on lap 32 he hit the harbour wall, bending a rear wheel. He turned the car over to Castellotti after the pit stop to fix the wheel. On lap 54 while second, Collins came in the pit and turned his car over to Fangio. He resumed in third and passed Behra for second on lap 70 but he was 47 seconds behind Moss. On lap 86 Perdisa's brakes locked when being lapped by Moss, the resulting contact caused Moss's bonnet to lift allowing Fangio to close the gap by two seconds each lap but Moss won with a 6-second cushion.

Classification
PosNoDriverConstructorLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
1 28 Stirling Moss Maserati 100 3:00:32.9 2 8
2 26 Peter Collins
Juan Manuel Fangio		 Ferrari 100 +6.1 sec 9 3
41
3 30 Jean Behra Maserati 99 +1 Lap 4 4
4 20 Juan Manuel Fangio
Eugenio Castellotti		 Ferrari 94 +6 Laps 1 02
1.5
5 6 Hermano da Silva Ramos Gordini 93 +7 Laps 14 2
6 4 Élie Bayol
André Pilette		 Gordini 88 +12 Laps 11
7 32 Cesare Perdisa Maserati 86 +14 Laps 7
8 18 Horace Gould Maserati 85 +15 Laps 16
Ret 2 Robert Manzon Gordini 90 Accident 12
Ret 8 Louis Rosier Maserati 72 Engine 15
Ret 22 Eugenio Castellotti Ferrari 14 Clutch 3
Ret 14 Maurice Trintignant Vanwall 13 Overheating 6
Ret 16 Harry Schell Vanwall 2 Accident 5
Ret 24 Luigi Musso Ferrari 2 Accident 8
DNQ 36 Giorgio Scarlatti Ferrari
WD 10 Mike Hawthorn BRM Engine Valve
WD 12 Tony Brooks BRM Engine Valve
WD 34 Louis Chiron Maserati Blown Engine
Source:[1]
Notes
  • ^1 – Includes 1 point for fastest lap
  • ^2 – Fangio scored no points for fourth place as he had already scored points for finishing second

Notes

Championship standings after the race
Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
1 Jean Behra 10
2 Juan Manuel Fangio 9
7 3 Stirling Moss 8
1 4 Luigi Musso 4
1 5 Mike Hawthorn 4
Source: [2]
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included.

References
  1. "1956 Monaco Grand Prix". formula1.com. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  2. "Monaco 1956 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
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