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Race · Round 4 of 9 ·

1954 French Grand Prix

Juan Manuel Fangio won for Mercedes from pole at Reims-Gueux. 15 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Mercedes, and the first championship podium for Karl Kling.

Circuit
Reims-GueuxGueux, France
Winner
Juan Manuel FangioMercedes
Fastest lap
Hans Herrmann
Entries
226 classified

Classification

Classification
PosDriverConstructorChassisGridLapsOutPointsFL
1Juan Manuel FangioMercedesW196161Finished8
2Karl KlingMercedesW196261Finished6
3Robert ManzonFerrari—1260Finished4
4Birabongse BhanudejMaserati250F660Finished3
5Luigi VilloresiMaserati—1458Finished2
6Jean BehraGordiniT161756Finished0
DNFPaul FrèreGordiniT161950Axle0
DNFMaurice TrintignantFerrari—936Engine0
DNFLouis RosierFerrari—1327Engine0
DNFOnofre MarimonMaserati—527Gearbox0
DNFRoberto MieresMaserati—1124Engine0
DNFKen WhartonMaserati250F1619Transmission0
DNFHarry SchellMaserati—2119Fuel pump0
DNFHans HerrmannMercedesW196716Engine1fastest lap
DNFRoy SalvadoriMaserati250F1015Halfshaft0
DNFJose Froilan GonzalezFerrari—413Engine0
DNFLance MacklinHWM531510Engine0
DNFGeorges BergerGordiniT16209Engine0
DNFMike HawthornFerrari—89Engine0
DNFJacques PolletGordiniT16188Engine0
DNFAlberto AscariMaserati—31Transmission0
DNSSergio MantovaniMaserati———DNS0
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
F1DB layout reims-2 · 8.302 km · 7 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

0102030405060Laps completedGridResult11Juan Manuel Fangio22Karl Kling123Robert Manzon64Birabongse Bhanudej145Luigi Villoresi176Jean Behra19DNFPaul Frère9DNFMaurice Trintignant13DNFLouis Rosier5DNFOnofre Marimon11DNFRoberto Mieres16DNFKen Wharton21DNFHarry Schell7DNFHans Herrmann10DNFRoy Salvadori4DNFJose Froilan Gonzalez15DNFLance Macklin20DNFGeorges Berger8DNFMike Hawthorn18DNFJacques Pollet3DNFAlberto Ascari

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
DriverGridResultLaps
Juan Manuel Fangio1161
Karl Kling2261
Robert Manzon12360
Birabongse Bhanudej6460
Luigi Villoresi14558
Jean Behra17656
Paul Frère19DNF50
Maurice Trintignant9DNF36
Louis Rosier13DNF27
Onofre Marimon5DNF27
Roberto Mieres11DNF24
Ken Wharton16DNF19
Harry Schell21DNF19
Hans Herrmann7DNF16
Roy Salvadori10DNF15
Jose Froilan Gonzalez4DNF13
Lance Macklin15DNF10
Georges Berger20DNF9
Mike Hawthorn8DNF9
Jacques Pollet18DNF8
Alberto Ascari3DNF1

Qualifying

Qualifying
PosDriverConstructorNo.TimeGapInterval
1Juan Manuel FangioMercedes182:29.400——
2Karl KlingMercedes202:30.400+1.000+1.000
3Alberto AscariMaserati102:30.500+1.100+0.100
4Jose Froilan GonzalezFerrari22:30.600+1.200+0.100
5Onofre MarimonMaserati122:31.600+2.200+1.000
6Birabongse BhanudejMaserati462:35.100+5.700+3.500
7Hans HerrmannMercedes222:35.300+5.900+0.200
8Mike HawthornFerrari62:35.600+6.200+0.300
9Maurice TrintignantFerrari42:36.100+6.700+0.500
10Roy SalvadoriMaserati442:36.300+6.900+0.200
11Roberto MieresMaserati162:38.700+9.300+2.400
12Robert ManzonFerrari342:42.000+12.600+3.300
13Louis RosierFerrari362:42.100+12.700+0.100
14Luigi VilloresiMaserati142:42.700+13.300+0.600
15Lance MacklinHWM322:52.500+23.100+9.800
16Ken WhartonMaserati423:09.300+39.900+16.800
17Jean BehraGordini24———
18Jacques PolletGordini26———
19Paul FrèreGordini28———
20Georges BergerGordini30———
21Harry SchellMaserati48———
Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Mercedes-Benz W196
Mercedes-Benz W196
KlingK-MB-W196-1976 · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de · unchecked
Maserati 250F
Maserati 250F
Maserati 250 F, Bj. 1957 (1977-08-14) Südkehre · Spurzem - Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de
Gordini T16
Gordini T16
Gordini T16 at Silverstone Classic 2011 · David Merrett from Daventry, England · CC BY 2.0

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Round
4 of 1954
Grand Prix
French Grand Prix
Dates
Layout raced
—
Format
Standard weekend
Constructor
Mercedes
Entrant
Mercedes
Confidence
reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.