1955 British Grand Prix
Race details | |||
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Race 6 of 7 in the 1955 Formula One season | |||
Date | 16 July 1955 | ||
Official name | VIII RAC British Grand Prix | ||
Location | Aintree Circuit, Liverpool, England | ||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
Course length | 4.828 km (3.000 mi) | ||
Distance | 90 laps, 434.52 km (270.00 mi) | ||
Weather | Hot, dry. | ||
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 | ||
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The 1955 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Aintree on 16 July 1955. It was the sixth round of the 1955 World Drivers' Championship. 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.
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.
Classification
Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 12 | Stirling Moss | Mercedes | 90 | 3:07:21.2 | 1 | 9 |
2 | 10 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Mercedes | 90 | +0.2 | 2 | 6 |
3 | 14 | Karl Kling | Mercedes | 90 | +1:11.8[1] | 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:[2] |
Notes
- Shared Drives:
- 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).
- Grand Prix debut for Jack Brabham. Only Grand Prix appearance for Mike Sparken.
- Last Grand Prix appearance for: Lance Macklin, Leslie Marr, Kenneth McAlpine, Tony Rolt, and Peter Walker.
- Career Firsts: Stirling Moss (win).
- First British GP Win by a British driver
Championship standings after the race
- 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 |
- Note: Only the top five positions are included.
References
- ↑ 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.
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