Race · Round 6 of 7 · 16 July 1955

1955 British Grand Prix

Sir Stirling Moss won for Mercedes from pole at Aintree. It was the first championship race win for Sir Stirling Moss.

Circuit: AintreeLiverpool, United Kingdom
Winner: Sir Stirling MossMercedes
Pole: Sir Stirling Moss
Fastest lap: Sir Stirling Moss
Entries: 2611 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	Sir Stirling Moss	Mercedes	W196	1	90	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Juan Manuel Fangio	Mercedes	W196	2	90	Finished	6
3	Karl Kling	Mercedes	W196	4	90	Finished	4
4	Piero Taruffi	Mercedes	W196	5	89	Finished	3
5	Luigi Musso	Maserati	250F	9	89	Finished	2
6	Mike Hawthorn shared	Ferrari	—	12	87	Finished	0
6	Eugenio Castellotti shared	Ferrari	—	10	16	Transmission	0
7	Mike Sparken	Gordini	T16	23	81	Finished	0
8	Lance Macklin	Maserati	250F	16	79	Finished	0
9	Ken Wharton shared	Vanwall	VW 55	15	72	Finished	0
9	Harry Schell shared	Vanwall	VW 55	7	20	Throttle	0
DNF	Maurice Trintignant	Ferrari	—	13	59	Overheating	0
DNF	Roberto Mieres	Maserati	250F	6	47	Engine	0
DNF	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	T40	25	30	Engine	0
DNF	Kenneth McAlpine	Connaught	B	17	30	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Peter Collins	Maserati	250F	24	28	Clutch	0
DNF	Hermano da Silva Ramos	Gordini	T16	18	26	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Roy Salvadori	Maserati	250F	20	23	Gearbox	0
DNF	Horace Gould	Maserati	250F	22	22	Brakes	0
DNF	Tony Rolt	Connaught	B	14	19	Transmission	0
DNF	Leslie Marr	Connaught	B	19	18	Brakes	0
DNF	André Simon	Maserati	250F	8	9	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jean Behra	Maserati	250F	3	9	Oil leak	0
DNF	Robert Manzon	Gordini	T16	11	4	Transmission	0
DNF	Peter Walker	Connaught	B	—	—	DNF	0
DNS	Jack Fairman	Connaught	B	21	—	Engine	0

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

F1DB layout aintree-1 · 4.828 km · 8 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
Sir Stirling Moss	1	1	90
Juan Manuel Fangio	2	2	90
Karl Kling	4	3	90
Piero Taruffi	5	4	89
Luigi Musso	9	5	89
Mike Hawthorn shared	12	6	87
Eugenio Castellotti shared	10	6	16
Mike Sparken	23	7	81
Lance Macklin	16	8	79
Ken Wharton shared	15	9	72
Harry Schell shared	7	9	20
Maurice Trintignant	13	DNF	59
Roberto Mieres	6	DNF	47
Sir Jack Brabham	25	DNF	30
Kenneth McAlpine	17	DNF	30
Peter Collins	24	DNF	28
Hermano da Silva Ramos	18	DNF	26
Roy Salvadori	20	DNF	23
Horace Gould	22	DNF	22
Tony Rolt	14	DNF	19
Leslie Marr	19	DNF	18
André Simon	8	DNF	9
Jean Behra	3	DNF	9
Robert Manzon	11	DNF	4

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	Sir Stirling Moss	Mercedes	12	2:00.400	—	—
2	Juan Manuel Fangio	Mercedes	10	2:00.600	+0.200	+0.200
3	Jean Behra	Maserati	2	2:01.400	+1.000	+0.800
4	Karl Kling	Mercedes	14	2:02.000	+1.600	+0.600
5	Piero Taruffi	Mercedes	50	2:03.000	+2.600	+1.000
6	Roberto Mieres	Maserati	6	2:03.200	+2.800	+0.200
7	Harry Schell	Vanwall	30	2:03.800	+3.400	+0.600
8	André Simon	Maserati	8	2:04.000	+3.600	+0.200
9	Luigi Musso	Maserati	4	2:04.200	+3.800	+0.200
10	Eugenio Castellotti	Ferrari	20	2:05.000	+4.600	+0.800
11	Robert Manzon	Gordini	22	2:05.000	+4.600	+0.000
12	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	16	2:05.400	+5.000	+0.400
13	Maurice Trintignant	Ferrari	18	2:05.400	+5.000	+0.000
14	Tony Rolt	Connaught	36	2:06.600	+6.200	+1.200
15	Ken Wharton	Vanwall	28	2:08.400	+8.000	+1.800
16	Lance Macklin	Maserati	46	2:08.400	+8.000	+0.000
17	Kenneth McAlpine	Connaught	32	2:09.600	+9.200	+1.200
18	Hermano da Silva Ramos	Gordini	24	2:10.600	+10.200	+1.000
19	Leslie Marr	Connaught	38	2:11.600	+11.200	+1.000
20	Roy Salvadori	Maserati	44	2:11.600	+11.200	+0.000
21	Jack Fairman	Connaught	34	2:11.600	+11.200	+0.000
22	Horace Gould	Maserati	48	2:11.800	+11.400	+0.200
23	Mike Sparken	Gordini	26	2:12.800	+12.400	+1.000
24	Peter Collins	Maserati	42	2:13.400	+13.000	+0.600
25	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	40	2:27.400	+27.000	+14.000

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: 6 of 1955
Grand Prix: British Grand Prix
Dates: 16 Jul 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.