1956 Monaco Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Monaco, 1956, on 13 May 1956, the Circuit de Monaco in Monaco instead and was the second race of the Formula 1 season 1956.
- 3.1 Start -up
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
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Background
After only two Italian Scuderia Ferrari and Maserati, as well as two teams participated with private cars in the race at the season opener in Argentina, the number of participating teams and drivers increased significantly during the Monaco Grand Prix in 1956.
Ferrari put only the new Ferrari D50 one, for the four regular driver Juan Manuel Fangio, Eugenio Castellotti, Luigi Musso and Peter Collins. Maserati went compared to previous race with a significantly lower number of cars at the start. Stirling Moss, Jean Behra and Cesare Perdisa started for the team. The French team Gordini was after a race break back again and put both the new Gordini Type 32 cars a, as well as last year's model Gordini Type 16 driver for Gordini were Robert Manzon, Élie Bayol, André Pilette and Hernando da Silva Ramos. It was Bayols last Formula 1 race.
The British team Vanwall also paused at the first race, then took the Grand Prix of Monaco in 1956 for the first time his new car Vanwall VW2 used. This entwurfene by Colin Chapman car was used for the whole season and scored some points standings. For Vanwall drove Maurice Trintignant and Harry Schell.
Another British team BRM also attended this race in part, for the first time with a specially constructed wagons. BRM appeared previously under the name Owen Racing Organisation in various Formula 1 race, but with a private Maserati 250F. The new BRM P25 initially scored no points standings, but was in subsequent years the basis for successful BRM car, with which the team won the 1962 drivers 'title and the constructors' title and one of the most successful teams of the 60's was. At the Grand Prix of Monaco in 1956 went for BRM Mike Hawthorn and Formula 1 debutant Tony Brooks at the start.
Furthermore, participated in the race Louis Rosier, Horace Gould and Giorgio Scarlatti with private cars in the race. For Scarlotti it was his first Formula 1 race.
With Fangio and Trintignant the two drivers took part, who won the race in the two previous Monaco Grand Prix, in the drivers' championship was Fangio one point behind the driver standings leader Behra.
Training
The training was previously dominated as the Grand Prix of Argentina in 1956 by Fangio. He put his Ferrari with a time of 1:44,0 on the pole position and was more than half a second faster than his former teammate Moss in the Maserati.
Maserati secured in training the grid positions two and four, Ferrari pole position and third on the grid. Behind Fangio and Moss Castellotti and Behra entered the race. With just three tenths of a second distance from the Italian top teams Schell and Trintignant qualified at the same time to position five and six, leaving an upward trend in Vanwall recognize.
In seventh place is Perdisa qualified behind the two Ferrari of Musso and Collins. The three Gordini occupied the starting places ten to twelve and were not competitive with more than three seconds behind the competition this weekend.
Of the drivers with private car to Rosier and Gould qualified for the race, Scarlatti was too slow with an outdated Ferrari 500 and qualified at 25.1 seconds behind Fangio's not on pole position time.
BRM was forced to withdraw its two new car, because the car had major engine problems, a similar fate befell Louis Chiron, who also withdrew its involvement in racing after an engine failure. With the start he would have surpassed his own record valid today as the oldest participant in a Formula 1 race.
Race
The race was marked by the battle between Ferrari and Maserati. Moss and Castellotti outdated Fangio in the first lap and then fought a duel, in which Moss kept the lead and Fangio Castellotti overtook again. This duel allowed Moss to expand its leadership in the first round for more than five seconds.
In the second lap of the race Fangio drove in the curve " St. Devote " into the barriers and blocked this short track. Several cars were trying to avoid him, Musso and Schell did not succeed this and they collided. For both the race was finished with it, during which Fangio drove on with the slightly damaged Ferrari. Lying on position four he started to catch up to the leaders.
After the accident of Schell retired on lap 13 and the second from Vanwall, Trintignants car overheated and was not able to continue the race. One lap later resigned from the Castel Lotti lying in second position, whereby the new Collins was second. Behind Collins is Behra and Fangio dueled for third place, Fangio claimed by the overtaking of Behra for themselves. Then grabbed at the Ferrari team orders and Collins let his teammate Fangio over, so it was possible Fangio continue his comeback to the leader Maseratifahrer Moss freely.
On lap 32, Fangio made the next mistake and clashed again with the track barrier. The badly damaged car he drove into the box and handed it to the already eliminated Castellotti. Fangio himself waiting in the box to Collins, who was instructed by the Ferrari team line to get into the box and put his car Fangio available. This car was the reigning world champion again tried the boss of Moss to decrease.
30 laps before the end of the race Fangio again Behra and had 45 seconds distance to Moss. Through an aggressive driving style Fangio's the distance each round was reduced by more than a second. Moss sat on a conservative and careful driving and managed the projection.
On lap 86 the leader Moss collided while lapping of Perdisa and pulled to slight damage to the car. A holder of the hood was destroyed in the process, so that these can easily raised in some corners. Moss decreased its speed in the last laps significantly, so Fangio two seconds per lap caught up, the leaders, however, no longer caught.
Moss won the second Grand Prix of his career with six seconds ahead of Fangio, who shared the points for second place with Collins. For Collins, it was the first podium finish of his career and the first points. It was the first time in Formula 1 history that two British drivers on the podium.
The podium was completed by Behra, who retained the lead in the drivers' standings with one point ahead of Fangio. Castel Lotti came with his heavily damaged car of Fangio fourth place finish and received half of the points, while Fangio only half points for second place received, as well as an extra for the fastest race lap. Da Silva Ramos scored in the Gordini position five and also received the first points of his career.
Moss ended with the victory in the championship and was one point behind in third place behind Fangio.
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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.