Race · Round 1 of 7 · 16 January 1955

1955 Argentine Grand Prix

Juan Manuel Fangio won for Mercedes from 3rd on the grid at Autodromo Oscar Galvez. With this win, Juan Manuel Fangio set a new record of 14 championship Grand Prix wins.

Circuit: Autodromo Oscar GalvezBuenos Aires, Argentina
Winner: Juan Manuel FangioMercedes
Pole: Jose Froilan Gonzalez
Fastest lap: Juan Manuel Fangio
Entries: 2213 classified

This race includes a shared drive. Two drivers took turns in one car and both are classified in the same position, so a position below appears twice. That is correct, not a duplicated row.

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Juan Manuel Fangio	Mercedes	W196	3	96	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Jose Froilan Gonzalez shared	Ferrari	—	1	96	Finished	2
2	Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina shared	Ferrari	—	5	94	Finished	2
2	Maurice Trintignant shared	Ferrari	—	14	36	Engine	2
3	Umberto Maglioli shared	Ferrari	—	—	—	Finished	1.33
4	Hans Herrmann shared	Mercedes	W196	10	94	Finished	1
4	Karl Kling shared	Mercedes	W196	6	2	Accident	1
4	Sir Stirling Moss shared	Mercedes	W196	8	29	Fuel system	1
5	Roberto Mieres	Maserati	250F	16	91	Finished	2
6	Harry Schell shared	Maserati	250F	7	88	DNF	0
6	Jean Behra shared	Maserati	250F	4	2	DNF	0
7	Luigi Musso shared	Maserati	250F	18	83	DNF	0
7	Sergio Mantovani shared	Maserati	250F	19	54	Engine	0
DNF	Clemar Bucci	Maserati	250F	20	54	Fuel pressure	0
DNF	Jesús Iglesias	Gordini	T16	17	38	Transmission	0
DNF	Eugenio Castellotti	Lancia	D50	12	35	Accident	0
DNF	Alberto Uria	Maserati	A6GCM	21	22	Out of fuel	0
DNF	Alberto Ascari	Lancia	D50	2	21	Accident	0
DNF	Élie Bayol	Gordini	T16	15	7	Transmission	0
DNF	Luigi Villoresi	Lancia	D50	11	2	DNF	0
DNF	Carlos Menditeguy	Maserati	250F	13	1	DNF	0
DNF	Pablo Birger	Gordini	T16	9	1	Accident	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout buenos-aires-1 · 3.912 km · 13 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

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. Drivers who shared a car have a line each.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Juan Manuel Fangio	3	1	96
Jose Froilan Gonzalez shared	1	2	96
Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina shared	5	2	94
Maurice Trintignant shared	14	2	36
Hans Herrmann shared	10	4	94
Karl Kling shared	6	4	2
Sir Stirling Moss shared	8	4	29
Roberto Mieres	16	5	91
Harry Schell shared	7	6	88
Jean Behra shared	4	6	2
Luigi Musso shared	18	7	83
Sergio Mantovani shared	19	7	54
Clemar Bucci	20	DNF	54
Jesús Iglesias	17	DNF	38
Eugenio Castellotti	12	DNF	35
Alberto Uria	21	DNF	22
Alberto Ascari	2	DNF	21
Élie Bayol	15	DNF	7
Luigi Villoresi	11	DNF	2
Carlos Menditeguy	13	DNF	1
Pablo Birger	9	DNF	1

1 entry with no recorded grid slot or lap count is in the classification and not drawn.

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jose Froilan Gonzalez	Ferrari	12	1:43.100	—	—
2	Alberto Ascari	Lancia	32	1:43.200	+0.100	+0.100
3	Juan Manuel Fangio	Mercedes	2	1:43.600	+0.500	+0.400
4	Jean Behra	Maserati	16	1:43.800	+0.700	+0.200
5	Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	Ferrari	10	1:43.800	+0.700	+0.000
6	Karl Kling	Mercedes	4	1:44.100	+1.000	+0.300
7	Harry Schell	Maserati	28	1:44.300	+1.200	+0.200
8	Sir Stirling Moss	Mercedes	6	1:44.600	+1.500	+0.300
9	Pablo Birger	Gordini	40	1:44.800	+1.700	+0.200
10	Hans Herrmann	Mercedes	8	1:44.900	+1.800	+0.100
11	Luigi Villoresi	Lancia	34	1:45.200	+2.100	+0.300
12	Eugenio Castellotti	Lancia	36	1:45.300	+2.200	+0.100
13	Carlos Menditeguy	Maserati	24	1:45.400	+2.300	+0.100
14	Maurice Trintignant	Ferrari	14	1:45.800	+2.700	+0.400
15	Élie Bayol	Gordini	38	1:46.100	+3.000	+0.300
16	Roberto Mieres	Maserati	18	1:46.200	+3.100	+0.100
17	Jesús Iglesias	Gordini	42	1:46.300	+3.200	+0.100
18	Luigi Musso	Maserati	22	1:46.400	+3.300	+0.100
19	Sergio Mantovani	Maserati	20	1:47.600	+4.500	+1.200
20	Clemar Bucci	Maserati	26	1:48.800	+5.700	+1.200
21	Alberto Uria	Maserati	30	1:51.200	+8.100	+2.400

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
KlingK-MB-W196-1976 · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de · unchecked

Maserati 250F
Maserati 250 F, Bj. 1957 (1977-08-14) Südkehre · Spurzem - Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de

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: 1 of 1955
Grand Prix: Argentine Grand Prix
Dates: 16 Jan 1955
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.