Race · Round 1 of 8 ·

1956 Argentine Grand Prix

Luigi Musso and Juan Manuel Fangio shared the win for Ferrari at Autodromo Oscar Galvez. It was the first championship race win for Luigi Musso.

Circuit
Autodromo Oscar GalvezBuenos Aires, Argentina
Entries
159 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
PosDriverConstructorChassisGridLapsOutPointsFL
1Luigi Musso sharedFerrari555398Finished4
1Juan Manuel Fangio sharedFerrari555122Fuel pump5fastest lap
2Jean BehraMaserati250F498Finished6
3Mike HawthornMaserati250F896Finished4
4Chico Landi sharedMaserati250F1192Finished1.5
4Gerino Gerini sharedMaserati250F——Finished1.5
5Olivier GendebienFerrari5551091Finished2
6Alberto Uria sharedMaseratiA6GCM1388Finished0
6Óscar González sharedMaseratiA6GCM——Finished0
DNFSir Stirling MossMaserati250F781Engine0
DNFPeter CollinsFerrari555958Accident0
DNFLuigi PiottiMaserati250F1257Accident0
DNFCarlos MenditeguyMaserati250F642Halfshaft0
DNFEugenio CastellottiFerrari555240Gearbox0
DNFJose Froilan GonzalezMaserati250F524Engine0
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

0102030405060708090Laps completedGridResult31Luigi Musso11Juan Manuel Fangio42Jean Behra83Mike Hawthorn114Chico Landi105Olivier Gendebien136Alberto Uria7DNFSir Stirling Moss9DNFPeter Collins12DNFLuigi Piotti6DNFCarlos Menditeguy2DNFEugenio Castellotti5DNFJose Froilan Gonzalez

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
DriverGridResultLaps
Luigi Musso shared3198
Juan Manuel Fangio shared1122
Jean Behra4298
Mike Hawthorn8396
Chico Landi shared11492
Olivier Gendebien10591
Alberto Uria shared13688
Sir Stirling Moss7DNF81
Peter Collins9DNF58
Luigi Piotti12DNF57
Carlos Menditeguy6DNF42
Eugenio Castellotti2DNF40
Jose Froilan Gonzalez5DNF24
2 entries with no recorded grid slot or lap count are in the classification and not drawn.

Qualifying

Qualifying
PosDriverConstructorNo.TimeGapInterval
1Juan Manuel FangioFerrari301:42.500——
2Eugenio CastellottiFerrari321:44.700+2.200+2.200
3Luigi MussoFerrari341:44.700+2.200+0.000
4Jean BehraMaserati41:45.100+2.600+0.400
5Jose Froilan GonzalezMaserati121:45.400+2.900+0.300
6Carlos MenditeguyMaserati61:45.600+3.100+0.200
7Sir Stirling MossMaserati21:45.900+3.400+0.300
8Mike HawthornMaserati141:47.400+4.900+1.500
9Peter CollinsFerrari361:47.700+5.200+0.300
10Olivier GendebienFerrari381:50.400+7.900+2.700
11Chico LandiMaserati101:57.900+15.400+7.500
12Luigi PiottiMaserati81:57.900+15.400+0.000
13Alberto UriaMaserati16———
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.

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

Where this comes from

Round
1 of 1956
Grand Prix
Argentine Grand Prix
Dates
Layout raced
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Format
Standard weekend
Constructor
Ferrari
Entrant
Ferrari
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.