1955 British Grand Prix
1955 British Grand Prix | |||||
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Race details | |||||
Date | 16 July 1955 | ||||
Official name | 8th RAC British Grand Prix | ||||
Location | Aintree Circuit, Liverpool, England | ||||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
Course length | 4.828 km (3.000 miles) | ||||
Distance | 90 laps, 434.52 km (270.00 miles) | ||||
Weather | Hot, dry.[1] | ||||
Attendance | 75,000-100,000[1] | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver | Mercedes | ||||
Time | 2:00.4 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver | Stirling Moss | Mercedes | |||
Time | 2:00.4 | ||||
Podium | |||||
First | Mercedes | ||||
Second | Mercedes | ||||
Third | Mercedes | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 1955 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Aintree on 16 July 1955. It was race 6 of 7 in the 1955 World Championship of Drivers. British driver Stirling Moss led a Mercedes 1–2–3–4 domination of the race, to win his first Formula One race narrowly ahead of his illustrious Argentine teammate Juan Manuel Fangio. Several people, including Moss, believed that the Argentine allowed his British protégé to claim his debut win in front of his home crowd. This was, however, at Moss' inquiry, consistently denied by Fangio, who claimed that Moss "was simply faster that day."
Subsequent to the race, the German, Swiss and Spanish Grands Prix were cancelled, in the wake of the Le Mans disaster. With only one Championship round therefore remaining (the Italian Grand Prix some 2 months later), Fangio's points advantage over Moss was sufficient to secure his third World Drivers' Championship.
This was the last all-Mercedes-powered podium until the 2014 Italian Grand Prix.
Classification
[edit]Qualifying
[edit]Race
[edit]Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 12 | Stirling Moss | Mercedes | 90 | 3:07:21.2 | 1 | 91 |
2 | 10 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Mercedes | 90 | +0.2 | 2 | 6 |
3 | 14 | Karl Kling | Mercedes | 90 | +1:11.8[3] | 4 | 4 |
4 | 50 | Piero Taruffi | Mercedes | 89 | +1 Lap | 5 | 3 |
5 | 4 | Luigi Musso | Maserati | 89 | +1 Lap | 9 | 2 |
6 | 16 | Mike Hawthorn Eugenio Castellotti |
Ferrari | 87 | +3 Laps | 12 | |
7 | 26 | Mike Sparken | Gordini | 81 | +9 Laps | 23 | |
8 | 46 | Lance Macklin | Maserati | 79 | +11 Laps | 16 | |
9 | 28 | Ken Wharton Harry Schell |
Vanwall | 72 | +18 Laps | 15 | |
Ret | 18 | Maurice Trintignant | Ferrari | 59 | Overheating | 13 | |
Ret | 6 | Roberto Mieres | Maserati | 47 | Engine | 6 | |
Ret | 40 | Jack Brabham | Cooper-Bristol | 30 | Engine | 25 | |
Ret | 32 | Kenneth McAlpine | Connaught-Alta | 30 | Oil Pressure | 17 | |
Ret | 42 | Peter Collins | Maserati | 28 | Clutch | 24 | |
Ret | 24 | Hermano da Silva Ramos | Gordini | 26 | Oil Pressure | 18 | |
Ret | 44 | Roy Salvadori | Maserati | 23 | Gearbox | 20 | |
Ret | 48 | Horace Gould | Maserati | 22 | Brakes | 22 | |
Ret | 30 | Harry Schell | Vanwall | 20 | Throttle | 7 | |
Ret | 36 | Tony Rolt Peter Walker |
Connaught-Alta | 19 | Transmission | 14 | |
Ret | 38 | Leslie Marr | Connaught-Alta | 18 | Brakes | 19 | |
Ret | 20 | Eugenio Castellotti | Ferrari | 16 | Transmission | 10 | |
Ret | 8 | André Simon | Maserati | 9 | Gearbox | 8 | |
Ret | 2 | Jean Behra | Maserati | 9 | Oil Leak | 3 | |
Ret | 22 | Robert Manzon | Gordini | 4 | Transmission | 11 | |
DNS | 34 | Jack Fairman | Connaught-Alta | Engine | 21 | ||
Source:[4]
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- Notes
- ^1 – Includes 1 point for fastest lap
Shared drives
[edit]- Car #16: Mike Hawthorn (60 laps) and Eugenio Castellotti (27 laps).
- Car #28: Ken Wharton (50 laps) and Harry Schell (22 laps).
- Car #36: Tony Rolt (10 laps) and Peter Walker (9 laps).
Notes
[edit]- This was the Formula One debut of future triple world champion Jack Brabham.
- This was only the second time a Ferrari (powered-car) did not finish in a points position (be it through the classification or a fastest lap). It ended a 37-race streak since the 1950 Belgian Grand Prix of a Ferrari ending a race with at least one point.
Championship standings after the race
[edit]- Drivers' Championship standings
Pos | Driver | Points | |
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1 | Juan Manuel Fangio | 33 | |
2 | Stirling Moss | 22 | |
3 | Maurice Trintignant | 11 1⁄3 | |
4 | Nino Farina | 10 1⁄3 | |
5 | Bob Sweikert | 8 | |
Source:[5] |
- Note: Only the top five positions are included.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "100,000 at British Grand Prix". Liverpool Echo. 16 July 1955. Retrieved 9 July 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "1955 British GP Qualification". chicanef1.com. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ^ Lang, Mike (1981). Grand Prix! Vol 1. Haynes Publishing Group. p. 90. ISBN 0-85429-276-4.
- ^ "1955 British Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
- ^ "Britain 1955 - Championship • STATS F1". statsf1.com. Retrieved 13 March 2019.