1956 Monaco Grand Prix

43°44′4.74″N 7°25′16.8″E / 43.7346500°N 7.421333°E / 43.7346500; 7.421333

1956 Monaco Grand Prix
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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 miles)
Distance 100 laps, 314.500 km (195.421 miles)
Weather Warm, dry, sunny
Pole position
Driver Ferrari
Time 1:44.0
Fastest lap
Driver Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio Ferrari
Time 1:44.4
Podium
First Maserati
Second Ferrari
Third Maserati
Lap leaders

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.

The Owen's BRM made their first appearance but after qualifying both cars were withdrawn due to engine valve problems. The other two non-starters were 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

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Qualifying

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Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap
1 20   Juan Manuel Fangio Ferrari 1:44.0
2 28   Stirling Moss Maserati 1:44.6 +0.6
3 22   Eugenio Castellotti Ferrari 1:44.9 +0.9
4 30   Jean Behra Maserati 1:45.3 +1.3
5 16   Harry Schell Vanwall 1:45.6 +1.6
6 14   Maurice Trintignant Vanwall 1:45.6 +1.6
7 32   Cesare Perdisa Maserati 1:46.0 +2.0
8 24   Luigi Musso Ferrari 1:46.8 +2.8
9 26   Peter Collins Ferrari 1:47.0 +3.0
10 10   Mike Hawthorn BRM 1:49.3 +5.3
11 4   Élie Bayol Gordini 1:50.0 +6.0
12 2   Robert Manzon Gordini 1:50.3 +6.3
13 12   Tony Brooks BRM 1:50.4 +6.4
14 6   Hermano da Silva Ramos Gordini 1:50.6 +6.6
15 8   Louis Rosier Maserati 1:51.6 +7.6
16 18   Horace Gould Maserati 1:51.7 +7.7
DNQ 36   Giorgio Scarlatti Ferrari 2:09.1 +25.1
WD 34   Louis Chiron Maserati
Source:[1]

Note: Both BRM cars (Mike Hawthorn and Tony Brooks) withdrew after qualifying due to engine issues.

Race

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Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
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 10
WD 12   Tony Brooks BRM Engine Valve 13
WD 34   Louis Chiron Maserati Blown Engine
Source:[2]
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

Shared drives

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Championship standings after the race

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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: [3]
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included.

References

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  1. ^ "1956 Monaco Grand Prix". gpracingstats.com. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  2. ^ "1956 Monaco Grand Prix". formula1.com. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Monaco 1956 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 19 March 2019.


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