Race · Round 2 of 8 ·

1956 Monaco Grand Prix

Sir Stirling Moss won for Maserati from 2nd on the grid at Circuit de Monaco. It was the first championship podium for Peter Collins.

Circuit
Circuit de MonacoMonte Carlo, Monaco
Winner
Sir Stirling MossMaserati
Entries
1910 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
1Sir Stirling MossMaserati250F2100Finished8
2Juan Manuel Fangio sharedFerrari555194Finished4fastest lap
2Peter Collins sharedFerrari5559100Finished3
3Jean BehraMaserati250F499Finished4
4Eugenio Castellotti sharedFerrari555314Clutch1.5
5Hermano da Silva RamosGordini—1493Finished2
6Élie Bayol sharedGordini—1188Finished0
6André Pilette sharedGordini———Finished0
7Cesare PerdisaMaserati250F786Finished0
8Horace GouldMaserati250F1685Finished0
DNFRobert ManzonGordini—1290Accident0
DNFLouis RosierMaserati250F1572Engine0
DNFMaurice TrintignantVanwallVW 2613Overheating0
DNFHarry SchellVanwallVW 252Accident0
DNFLuigi MussoFerrari55582Accident0
DNSMike HawthornBRMP25——Engine valve0
DNSTony BrooksBRMP25——Engine valve0
DNSLouis ChironMaserati250F——Engine0
DNQGiorgio ScarlattiFerrari500——DNQ0
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
F1DB layout monaco-2 · 3.145 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

0102030405060708090100Laps completedGridResult21Sir Stirling Moss12Juan Manuel Fangio92Peter Collins43Jean Behra34Eugenio Castellotti145Hermano da Silva Ramos116Élie Bayol77Cesare Perdisa168Horace Gould12DNFRobert Manzon15DNFLouis Rosier6DNFMaurice Trintignant5DNFHarry Schell8DNFLuigi Musso

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
Sir Stirling Moss21100
Juan Manuel Fangio shared1294
Peter Collins shared92100
Jean Behra4399
Eugenio Castellotti shared3414
Hermano da Silva Ramos14593
Élie Bayol shared11688
Cesare Perdisa7786
Horace Gould16885
Robert Manzon12DNF90
Louis Rosier15DNF72
Maurice Trintignant6DNF13
Harry Schell5DNF2
Luigi Musso8DNF2
1 entry with no recorded grid slot or lap count is in the classification and not drawn.

Qualifying

Qualifying
PosDriverConstructorNo.TimeGapInterval
1Juan Manuel FangioFerrari201:44.000——
2Sir Stirling MossMaserati281:44.600+0.600+0.600
3Eugenio CastellottiFerrari221:44.900+0.900+0.300
4Jean BehraMaserati301:45.300+1.300+0.400
5Harry SchellVanwall161:45.600+1.600+0.300
6Maurice TrintignantVanwall141:45.600+1.600+0.000
7Cesare PerdisaMaserati321:46.000+2.000+0.400
8Luigi MussoFerrari241:46.800+2.800+0.800
9Peter CollinsFerrari261:47.000+3.000+0.200
10Mike HawthornBRM101:49.300+5.300+2.300
11Élie BayolGordini41:50.000+6.000+0.700
12Robert ManzonGordini21:50.300+6.300+0.300
13Tony BrooksBRM121:50.400+6.400+0.100
14Hermano da Silva RamosGordini61:50.600+6.600+0.200
15Louis RosierMaserati81:51.600+7.600+1.000
16Horace GouldMaserati181:51.700+7.700+0.100
17Giorgio ScarlattiFerrari362:09.100+25.100+17.400
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.

Maserati 250F
Maserati 250F
Maserati 250 F, Bj. 1957 (1977-08-14) Südkehre · Spurzem - Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de
BRM P25
BRM P25
BRM P25 at Silverstone Classic 2011 · David Merrett from Daventry, England · CC BY 2.0
Ferrari Tipo 500
Ferrari Tipo 500
Ferrari 500 F2 front-left Donington Grand Prix Collection · Morio · CC BY-SA 3.0

Where this comes from

Round
2 of 1956
Grand Prix
Monaco Grand Prix
Dates
Layout raced
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Format
Standard weekend
Constructor
Maserati
Entrant
Maserati
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.