Race · Round 8 of 8 · 2 September 1956

1956 Italian Grand Prix

Sir Stirling Moss won for Maserati from 6th on the grid at Autodromo Nazionale Monza. It was the first championship podium for Ron Flockhart.

Circuit: Autodromo Nazionale MonzaMonza, Italy
Winner: Sir Stirling MossMaserati
Pole: Juan Manuel Fangio
Fastest lap: Sir Stirling Moss
Entries: 2612 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	Maserati	250F	6	50	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Juan Manuel Fangio shared	Ferrari	555	1	46	Finished	3
2	Peter Collins shared	Ferrari	555	7	50	Finished	3
3	Ron Flockhart	Connaught	B	23	49	Finished	4
4	Paco Godia	Maserati	250F	17	49	Finished	3
5	Jack Fairman	Connaught	B	15	47	Finished	2
6	Luigi Piotti	Maserati	250F	14	47	Finished	0
7	Emmanuel de Graffenried	Maserati	250F	18	46	Finished	0
8	Eugenio Castellotti shared	Ferrari	555	2	9	Tyre	0
9	André Simon	Gordini	—	24	45	Finished	0
10	Gerino Gerini	Maserati	250F	16	42	Finished	0
11	Roy Salvadori	Maserati	250F	13	41	Finished	0
DNF	Luigi Musso	Ferrari	555	3	47	Steering	0
DNF	Umberto Maglioli	Maserati	250F	12	42	Steering	0
DNF	Harry Schell	Vanwall	VW 2	10	32	Transmission	0
DNF	Jean Behra	Maserati	250F	5	23	DNF	0
DNF	Bruce Halford	Maserati	250F	21	16	Engine	0
DNF	Maurice Trintignant	Vanwall	VW 2	11	13	Transmission	0
DNF	Piero Taruffi	Vanwall	VW 2	4	12	Oil leak	0
DNF	Robert Manzon	Gordini	—	22	7	Chassis	0
DNF	Luigi Villoresi	Maserati	250F	8	7	Engine	0
DNF	Alfonso de Portago	Ferrari	555	9	6	Tyre	0
DNF	Les Leston	Connaught	B	19	6	Suspension	0
DNF	Hermano da Silva Ramos	Gordini	—	20	3	Engine	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	Maserati	250F	—	—	DNF	0
DNS	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	555	—	—	DNS	0

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

F1DB layout monza-2 · 10 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

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	6	1	50
Juan Manuel Fangio shared	1	2	46
Peter Collins shared	7	2	50
Ron Flockhart	23	3	49
Paco Godia	17	4	49
Jack Fairman	15	5	47
Luigi Piotti	14	6	47
Emmanuel de Graffenried	18	7	46
Eugenio Castellotti shared	2	8	9
André Simon	24	9	45
Gerino Gerini	16	10	42
Roy Salvadori	13	11	41
Luigi Musso	3	DNF	47
Umberto Maglioli	12	DNF	42
Harry Schell	10	DNF	32
Jean Behra	5	DNF	23
Bruce Halford	21	DNF	16
Maurice Trintignant	11	DNF	13
Piero Taruffi	4	DNF	12
Robert Manzon	22	DNF	7
Luigi Villoresi	8	DNF	7
Alfonso de Portago	9	DNF	6
Les Leston	19	DNF	6
Hermano da Silva Ramos	20	DNF	3

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	Juan Manuel Fangio	Ferrari	22	2:42.600	—	—
2	Eugenio Castellotti	Ferrari	24	2:43.400	+0.800	+0.800
3	Luigi Musso	Ferrari	28	2:43.700	+1.100	+0.300
4	Piero Taruffi	Vanwall	16	2:45.400	+2.800	+1.700
5	Jean Behra	Maserati	32	2:45.600	+3.000	+0.200
6	Sir Stirling Moss	Maserati	36	2:45.900	+3.300	+0.300
7	Peter Collins	Ferrari	26	2:46.000	+3.400	+0.100
8	Luigi Villoresi	Maserati	34	2:47.700	+5.100	+1.700
9	Alfonso de Portago	Ferrari	30	2:47.800	+5.200	+0.100
10	Harry Schell	Vanwall	18	2:50.100	+7.500	+2.300
11	Maurice Trintignant	Vanwall	20	2:51.600	+9.000	+1.500
12	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	50	2:51.600	+9.000	+0.000
13	Umberto Maglioli	Maserati	46	2:52.700	+10.100	+1.100
14	Roy Salvadori	Maserati	44	2:54.600	+12.000	+1.900
15	Luigi Piotti	Maserati	40	2:58.400	+15.800	+3.800
16	Jack Fairman	Connaught	6	2:59.200	+16.600	+0.800
17	Gerino Gerini	Maserati	42	3:02.600	+20.000	+3.400
18	Paco Godia	Maserati	38	3:02.900	+20.300	+0.300
19	Emmanuel de Graffenried	Maserati	14	3:03.300	+20.700	+0.400
20	Les Leston	Connaught	2	3:04.300	+21.700	+1.000
21	Hermano da Silva Ramos	Gordini	8	3:04.800	+22.200	+0.500
22	Bruce Halford	Maserati	48	3:05.000	+22.400	+0.200
23	Robert Manzon	Gordini	10	3:06.600	+24.000	+1.600
24	Ron Flockhart	Connaught	4	3:08.100	+25.500	+1.500
25	André Simon	Gordini	12	3:13.300	+30.700	+5.200

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

Where this comes from

Round: 8 of 1956
Grand Prix: Italian Grand Prix
Dates: 2 Sep 1956
Layout raced: Road course with banked oval · 10 km
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Maserati
Entrant: Maserati
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.