1956 Belgian Grand Prix

F1 Belgium Belgian Spa 1947.png Spa-Francorchamps layout XVIII Grand Prix de Belgique June 3 1956 1956 Indianapolis 500#World Drivers' Championship 1956 French Grand Prix Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Permanent racing facility 8.774 14.120 36 315.855 508.320 Wet and overcast, later drying Juan Manuel Fangio Ferrari 4:09.8 Argentina Stirling Moss Maserati 4:14.7 United Kingdom Peter Collins Ferrari United Kingdom Paul Frère Ferrari Belgium Cesare Perdisa United Kingdom Stirling Moss Maserati Italy BEL The 1956 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 3 June 1956 at Spa-Francorchamps. It was race 4 of 8 in the 1956 World Championship of Drivers. After the first day of practice on Thursday, Fangio was on pole with a time almost 5 sec faster than second place Moss. These times would not be touched with wet conditions on Friday and windy conditions on Saturday. It was raining when the race began and Fangio made a poor start and settled in fifth with Moss well in the lead. But by lap 3 Fangio would be in second having passed Behra, Collins, and then Castellotti. By the fifth lap he was in the lead and had opened up an 8-second lead on Moss by lap 10 with Collins third on a drying track. Collins took second when Moss lost a back wheel on the climb after the Eau Rouge bridge. He was able to safely stop and sprint back to the pits and take over Perdisa's car. He resumed in sixth but a lap down to the leaders. Collins took the lead for good when Fangio lost his transmission on lap 24. A tight battle for second between Behra and Frere ended when Behra's engine began to misfire. This allowed Moss to move to third as he had passed Schell earlier. Moss ended the race on a furious pace but the two leaders were too far ahead to make up the gap. This was the first Formula One podium for a Belgian driver. Classification Qualifying +PosNoDriverConstructorTimeGap1 2 Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio Ferrari 4:09.8—2 30 UK Stirling Moss Maserati 4:14.7 +4.93 8 UK Peter Collins Ferrari 4:15.3 +5.54 32 France Jean Behra Maserati 4:16.7 +6.95 4 Italy Eugenio Castellotti Ferrari 4:16.7 +6.96 10 United States 1912 Harry Schell Vanwall 4:19.0 +9.27 12 France Maurice Trintignant Vanwall 4:22.8 +13.08 6 Belgium Paul Frère Ferrari 4:23.8 +14.09 34 Italy Cesare Perdisa Maserati 4:35.7 +25.910 24 France Louis Rosier Maserati 4:35.9 +26.111 22 Italy Luigi Villoresi Maserati 4:37.7 +27.912 28 Italy Piero Scotti Connaught-Alta 4:41.9 +32.113 38 UK Mike Hawthorn Maserati 4:48.9 +39.114 36 Spain 1945 Paco Godia Maserati 4:49.8 +40.015 26 UK Horace Gould Maserati 4:50.4 +40.616 20 Belgium André Pilette Ferrari 4:51.9 +42.1 Source:http://www.chicanef1.com/race.pl?year=1956&gp=Belgian%20GP&r=1&type=qual 1956 Belgian GP Qualification www.chicanef1.com 15 July 2020 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 8 UK Peter Collins Ferrari 36 2:40:00.3 3 8 2 6 Belgium Paul Frère Ferrari 36 +1:51.3 8 6 3 34 Italy Cesare PerdisaUK Stirling Moss Maserati 36 +3:16.6 9 231 1 4 10 United States 1912 Harry Schell Vanwall 35 +1 Lap 6 3 5 22 Italy Luigi Villoresi Maserati 34 +2 Laps 11 2 6 20 Belgium André Pilette Ferrari 33 +3 Laps 15 7 32 France Jean Behra Maserati 33 +3 Laps 4 8 24 France Louis Rosier Maserati 33 +3 Laps 10 Ret Retired 2 Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio Ferrari 23 Transmission 1 Ret Retired 12 France Maurice Trintignant Vanwall 11 Fuel system 7 Ret Retired 30 UK Stirling Moss Maserati 10 Wheel 2 Ret Retired 4 Italy Eugenio Castellotti Ferrari 10 Transmission 5 Ret Retired 28 Italy Piero Scotti Connaught-Alta 10 Engine 12 Ret Retired 26 UK Horace Gould Maserati 2 Gearbox 14 Ret Retired 36 Spain 1945 Paco Godia Maserati 0 Accident 13 DNS Did not start 38 UK Mike Hawthorn Maserati 0 Source:https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1956/races/145/belgium.html 1956 Belgian Grand Prix formula1.com 10 June 2018 2 January 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170102083129/https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1956/races/145/belgium.html dead Notes 1 1 – Includes 1 point for fastest lap Shared drive Car #34: Perdisa (13 laps) and Moss (23 laps). Notes For the first time in 21 races, Fangio ended the race pointless. Since the 1953 Belgian Grand Prix, Fangio had ended his Formula One World Championship races with at least one point. Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 8 1 UK Peter Collins 11 10px 1 2 UK Stirling Moss 11 10px 2 3 France Jean Behra 10 10px 2 4 Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio 9 10px 1 5 USA 1912 Pat Flaherty 8Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1956/belgique/championnat.aspx Belgium 1956 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 12 March 2019 Note: Only the top five positions are included. References 30em Belgian Grand Prix 1956 1956 Indianapolis 500 1956 French Grand Prix 1955 Belgian Grand Prix 1958 Belgian Grand Prix Belgian Grand Prix Category:Belgian Grand Prix Grand Prix Belgian Grand Prix