1956 British Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1956 was held on July 14, 1956 held at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone and was the sixth race of the Formula 1 season 1956.
- 3.1 Start -up
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
Reports
Background
From the Formula 1 1955 season, the race took place at the Grand Prix of Great Britain alternately on the Aintree Circuit and the Silverstone Circuit. After a year's break, thus the Formula 1 returned to Silverstone, where Ferrari had won the last four races.
Ferrari put four cars one for Juan Manuel Fangio, Alfonso de Portago, Eugenio Castellotti and Peter Collins, who had decided the previous two races for themselves. Even Maserati was due to the large field of drivers with only four cars to the starting line for his regular driver Stirling Moss, Jean Behra, Cesare Perdisa and Paco Godia.
Major changes were made at the driver pairing Vanwall. After the withdrawal of Bugatti from Formula 1 Maurice Trintignant drove back for the British team, next to Harry Schell and José González Froilán. Mike Hawthorn changed again in the season, the team and went from Vanwall back to BRM after several races break a renewed attempt at participating in a join Formula 1 race, which this time also succeeded, after being forced at the Grand Prix of Monaco 1956 the car withdraw from the race due to technical problems. Besides Hawthorn drove for B.R.M. Tony Brooks and Ron Flockhart.
Traditionally, participated in the Grand Prix of Great Britain in part the team Connaught, who entered this year with Archie Scott -Brown, Desmond Titterington and Jack Fairman. Both Brown and Titterington for this was the first and last Formula 1 race of their motorsport careers. The French team Gordini brought two cars at the start, one for Hernando da Silva Ramos and another car for Robert Manzon.
As in previous years, many drivers started with private cars in the Grand Prix of Great Britain, nine of these drivers were reported, including Jack Brabham as the six other drivers also drove a private Maserati 250F. Bob Gerard, however, drove an old Cooper T23, Paul Emery appointed a specially designed car that Emeryson 56 For Emery and Bruce Halford the Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1956 was the Formula 1 debut.
González was the only driver of the 28 -strong field of drivers, who had already won at Silverstone earlier. In the drivers' championship lead at this time Collins five points clear at Behra and six points ahead of third-placed Fangio.
The race was dominated by a very high failure rate, only eleven riders reached the finish, 17 riders failed.
Training
After Ferrari so far with the exception of the Indianapolis 500 dominates every workout and Fangio had won the pole position at each of the four races, the training was for the Grand Prix of Great Britain 1956 balanced between the top teams Ferrari and Maserati. Fangio and Moss fought for the pole position and drove at the end of the same time of 1:41,0. However, as in previous years was the time measurement at Silverstone not at a level other racetracks and thus all the times were only accurate to the second. Since Moss his best time in training rather than aufstellte Fangio, he secured pole position. This was the only pole position of the Formula 1 season 1956 for Moss and Maserati.
Mike Hawthorn scored in the first full race weekend for Team BRM the third place, two seconds behind Fangio. Time- par to Fangio's teammate Collins qualified in fourth place ahead of the two Vanwall of Schell and Gonzalez.
Roy Salvadori, who drove for Gilby Engineering in a private Maserati, succeeded to seventh place, ahead of Castel Lotti and Brooks, Connaught - driver Scott -Brown completed the top ten. Behra, who was in the driver standings at this point in second position, qualified in 13th place, Manzon in the Gordini reached # 18 and Brabham was like his Formula 1 debut in training last.
Race
From third place starting Hawthorn took the lead immediately after the start by talking about Fangio and Moss. His B.R.M. thus received at his first race entry management kilometers and proved that he was very competitive. Brooks took over in the second Vanwall in the first laps several drivers and fought his way to position two, which BRM held a double guide. However, a weak point of the car, the low reliability remained, Flockhart in third BRM already retired on the second lap of the race due to an engine failure from. In round four also Brabham retired with an engine failure. González, who at the Grand Prix of Great Britain 1956 participated for Vanwall, a few meters wide and was rolled at the start due to lack of power transmission, the first failure of the race.
Fangio, who started from second place overtook only Moss and a few laps later, Brooks, but lost both of these positions after a spin again. Then attacked Moss Brooks and overtook him in the eleventh lap. Following Moss close the gap on leaders Hawthorn, during which Brooks lost several positions and fell back behind Salvadori, who was thus in position three.
On lap 16 Moss took the lead after he overtook Hawthorn. Even Fangio made a good position and overtook Hawthorns teammate Brooks. A short time later, the technical problems started also the BRM Hawthorn impairing and he fell further and further behind until he was forced to give up on lap 24. At this time he was the eighth loss of the Grand Prix. Thus, Moss led the factory Maserati before Salvadori in a private Maserati. In third position was Fangio, who tried to catch two leaders. Behind him, the distance to Brooks became larger, which is also the unreliability of his BRM had to fight. A repair pit stop helped him to be able to continue the race, but on lap 41 he had a serious accident in which the car overturned several times. Brooks was thereby thrown from the car and suffered minor injuries. The car went up in flames and it took a long time to extinguish the resulting fire, causing the car was completely destroyed. For BRM ended the race with the failure of all three cars, but with the knowledge that the car is fast enough to keep up with the other top teams.
Salvadori was lying in second place in the second half of the race also technical problems that forced him to slow down. The two Ferrari drivers Fangio and Collins, this allowed to overtake Salvadori. Then sought Moss the box to let on to top up oil. He remained in the lead, its projection on Fangio consequently decreased significantly, however.
On lap 59 Salvadori finally left the race four laps later, Collins suffered a similar fate. He then took over on lap 70 the car of his teammates Portago, who took over on lap 80 in turn the car from Castel Lotti. Moss came again in the box, since the engine had lost power. There was a repair and Fangio took over on lap 69 the lead. Moss needed a third repair pit stop and then fell a few laps to go out due to a broken axle.
Fangio won for the first time in his career at Silverstone Ferrari and continued the winning streak continued on this route. This was the fifth of six consecutive victories at the Silverstone circuit for Ferrari. Fangio outsell while the entire field of riders, his teammate Collins drove to second place finish and completed another Ferrari one-two. However, he shared the points with Portago, who scored his only podium finish in Formula 1. He was the first Spaniard to have managed this and only at the Malaysian Grand Prix with Fernando Alonso 2003 was again a Spaniard on the podium. Moreover, these were the first points of his career for him. Collins lost through the points dividing a large part of its projection in the drivers' standings to Fangio. Fangio came within a point of Collins and overtook Behra, who came in third in this race.
Fourth place went to the team Fairman and Connaught, who scored a placement points for the first time, just as Horace Gould occupied private Maserati, the fifth place. Moss received despite the failure of one point for the fastest lap of the race, but lost in the championship but important points and had at that time already nine points behind the leader Collins.
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Standings after the race
The first five of the race were 8, 6, 4, 3, 2 points. The driver with the fastest lap of the race also received 1 point. It included only the five best results from the eight races.