1956 Monaco Grand Prix

1956 Monaco Grand Prix
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Race details
Date	13 May 1956
Official name	XIV Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco
Location	Circuit de Monaco
Course	Street Circuit
Course length	3.145 km (1.954 miles)
Distance	100 laps, 314.500 km (195.421 miles)
Weather	Warm, dry, sunny
Pole position
Driver	Juan Manuel Fangio	Ferrari
Time	1:44.0
Fastest lap
Driver	Juan Manuel Fangio	Ferrari
Time	1:44.4
Podium
First	Stirling Moss	Maserati
Second	Peter Collins Juan Manuel Fangio	Ferrari
Third	Jean Behra	Maserati
Lap leaders

The 1956 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 13 May 1956 at Monaco. It was race 2 of 8 in the 1956 World Championship of Drivers.

The Owen's BRM made their first appearance but after qualifying both cars were withdrawn due to engine valve problems. The other two non-starters were the too-slow Scarlatti and Chiron due to his engine blowing up in practice.

Moss, starting from the middle of the front row, took the lead at Gasworks on the first lap and led every lap. Fangio was not having a good day. He hit the straw bales on lap 2, causing Schell and Musso to retire when trying to avoid him, and on lap 32 he hit the harbour wall, bending a rear wheel. He turned the car over to Castellotti after the pit stop to fix the wheel. On lap 54 while second, Collins came in the pit and turned his car over to Fangio. He resumed in third and passed Behra for second on lap 70, but he was 47 seconds behind Moss. On lap 86 Perdisa's brakes locked when being lapped by Moss, the resulting contact caused Moss's bonnet to lift allowing Fangio to close the gap by two seconds each lap but Moss won with a 6-second cushion.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap
1	20	Juan Manuel Fangio	Ferrari	1:44.0	—
2	28	Stirling Moss	Maserati	1:44.6	+0.6
3	22	Eugenio Castellotti	Ferrari	1:44.9	+0.9
4	30	Jean Behra	Maserati	1:45.3	+1.3
5	16	Harry Schell	Vanwall	1:45.6	+1.6
6	14	Maurice Trintignant	Vanwall	1:45.6	+1.6
7	32	Cesare Perdisa	Maserati	1:46.0	+2.0
8	24	Luigi Musso	Ferrari	1:46.8	+2.8
9	26	Peter Collins	Ferrari	1:47.0	+3.0
10	10	Mike Hawthorn	BRM	1:49.3	+5.3
11	4	Élie Bayol	Gordini	1:50.0	+6.0
12	2	Robert Manzon	Gordini	1:50.3	+6.3
13	12	Tony Brooks	BRM	1:50.4	+6.4
14	6	Hermano da Silva Ramos	Gordini	1:50.6	+6.6
15	8	Louis Rosier	Maserati	1:51.6	+7.6
16	18	Horace Gould	Maserati	1:51.7	+7.7
DNQ	36	Giorgio Scarlatti	Ferrari	2:09.1	+25.1
WD	34	Louis Chiron	Maserati
Source:

Note: Both BRM cars (Mike Hawthorn and Tony Brooks) withdrew after qualifying due to engine issues.

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	28	Stirling Moss	Maserati	100	3:00:32.9	2	8
2	26	Peter Collins Juan Manuel Fangio	Ferrari	100	+6.1 sec	9	3 41
3	30	Jean Behra	Maserati	99	+1 Lap	4	4
4	20	Juan Manuel Fangio Eugenio Castellotti	Ferrari	94	+6 Laps	1	02 1.5
5	6	Hermano da Silva Ramos	Gordini	93	+7 Laps	14	2
6	4	Élie Bayol André Pilette	Gordini	88	+12 Laps	11
7	32	Cesare Perdisa	Maserati	86	+14 Laps	7
8	18	Horace Gould	Maserati	85	+15 Laps	16
Ret	2	Robert Manzon	Gordini	90	Accident	12
Ret	8	Louis Rosier	Maserati	72	Engine	15
Ret	22	Eugenio Castellotti	Ferrari	14	Clutch	3
Ret	14	Maurice Trintignant	Vanwall	13	Overheating	6
Ret	16	Harry Schell	Vanwall	2	Accident	5
Ret	24	Luigi Musso	Ferrari	2	Accident	8
DNQ	36	Giorgio Scarlatti	Ferrari
WD	10	Mike Hawthorn	BRM		Engine Valve	10
WD	12	Tony Brooks	BRM		Engine Valve	13
WD	34	Louis Chiron	Maserati		Blown Engine
Source:

Notes

• ^1 – Includes 1 point for fastest lap
• ^2 – Fangio scored no points for fourth place as he had already scored points for finishing second

Shared drives

• Car #26: Peter Collins (54 laps) and Juan Manuel Fangio (46 laps). They shared the 6 points for second place (Fangio also scored an extra point for achieving fastest lap).
• Car #20: Juan Manuel Fangio (40 laps) and Eugenio Castellotti (54 laps). Since Fangio received points for second, only Castellotti received the 1.5 points for the shared fourth.
• Car #4: Élie Bayol (44 laps) and André Pilette (44 laps).

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
	1	Jean Behra	10
	2	Juan Manuel Fangio	9
7	3	Stirling Moss	8
1	4	Luigi Musso	4
1	5	Mike Hawthorn	4
Source:

• Note: Only the top five positions are included.