1956 1000 km Buenos Aires

thumb|Circuit Callejero - Buenos Aires 1000km (1954) The 1956 1000 km Buenos Aires took place on 29 January, on the Autódromo Municipal-Avenida Paz, (Buenos Aires, Argentina). It was the third running of the race, and once again, it was opening round of the F.I.A. World Sports Car Championship. For this event, a longer section of the Autopista General Pablo Riccheri route was removed, returning the circuit to 9.476 km in length, as it was in 1954. Report Entry A grand total of 32 racing cars were registered for this event, of which 28 arrived for practice and 27 for qualifying. Although this was the first major sports car race of the year, the race was poorly supported by the work of teams. Only Ferrari and Maserati sent cars from Europe. Both teams were represented by three cars in the race. Ferrari send a Ferrari 857 S for Olivier Gendebien and Phil Hill, and a pair of Ferrari 410 S Scaglietti Spyders for Juan Manuel Fangio/Eugenio Castellotti and Luigi Musso/Peter Collins. Meanwhile, Officine Alfieri Maserati was represented a trio of Maserati 300S in the hands of Stirling Moss/Carlos Menditéguy; Jean Behra/José Froilán González and Francisco Landi/Gerino Gerini. The remainder of the field were cars from South American teams.1000 km Buenos Aires http://www.racingsportscars.com/results/Buenos_Aires-1956-01-29-2316.html Racing Sports Cars Qualifying After a three-hour qualifying session held on the prior to the race, the local hero, Juan Manuel Fangio took pole position for Scuderia Ferrari, in their Ferrari 410 S. Race thumb|left|Maserati 300S - similar to the car driven to victory by Moss/Menditéguy The race was held over 106 laps of the 5.888 miles, Autódromo Municipal-Avenida Paz, giving a distance of 624.162 miles (1,004.490 km). It was the winner of the 1955 race, Enrique Saenz Valiente who took an early lead from Fangio and Musso. By lap ten, both the works Ferrari had moved ahead of the privately entered Ferrari 375 Plus of Valinete. On lap 20, Moss and Gendebien were also moving up the leaderboard. However, with just 20 laps left Gendebien were in the pits with problems, while Fangio's car, now in the hands of Castellotti, was also in the pits following a collision with a dog. With the retirement of Musso just after half distance, the Maserati of Moss and Menditéguy was now in a clear lead. With his car now repaired, Fangio launches a relentless pursuit of the Maserati although the distance is too great and the Ferrari's differential explodes into many pieces.http://www.teamdan.com/archive/wsc/1956/56ba.html 1956 Buenos Aires 1000 km 2015-04-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20090108043108/http://www.teamdan.com/archive/wsc/1956/56ba.html 2009-01-08 deadhttp://wsrp.ic.cz/wsc1956.html F.I.A. World Sports Car Championship 1956 World Sports Racing Prototypes 2015-04-28 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150222005213/http://wsrp.ic.cz/wsc1956.html 2015-02-22 http://www.jmfangio.org/gp1956baires1k.htm Un tributo al chueco... 1000 Km. Buenos Aires 1956 As a result of Fangio's retirement, Moss and Menditéguy in car number 31, took an impressive victory, winning in a time of 6hrs 29:37.9 mins., averaging a speed of 96.116 mph. In second was the sole remaining Scuderia Ferrari of Gendebien and Hill, albeit two laps drift. The podium was complete by another works Maserati 300S, of Behra and González, who were a further three laps adrift. Official classification Class winners are in Bold text. Pos No ClassDriver Entrant Chassis Laps Reason Out 1st 31 S3.0 GBR Stirling Moss Argentina Carlos Menditéguy Officine Alfieri Maserati Maserati 300S 6hr 29:37.9, 106 2nd 36 S+3.0 Belgium Olivier Gendebien USA Phil Hill Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 857 S 104 3rd 32 S3.0 France Jean Behra Argentina José Froilán González Officine Alfieri Maserati Maserati 300S 101 4th 4 S1.5 Argentina Alejandro de Tomaso Argentina Carlo Tomasi Maserati 150S 97 5th 20 S2.0 Venezuela Enrique Muro Venezuela Julio Pola Ferrari 500 Mondial 93 6th 26 S3.0 Chile Eduardo Kovacs-Jones Chile Raúl Jaras Mercedes-Benz 300 SL 90 DNF 43 S+3.0 Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio Italy Eugenio Castellotti Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 410 S Scaglietti Spyder 89Transmission 7th 6 S1.5 USA Isabelle Haskell Argentina Carlos Lostalo Maserati 150S 88 8th24 S3.0 Argentina Angel Maiocchi Argentina Lucio Bollaert Ferrari 225 S 85 DNF 1 S1.5 Guatemala Jaroslav Juhan Argentina José Félix Lopes Porsche550 Spyder 72 Accident 9th 49 S+3.0 Argentina Franco Bruno Argentina Carlos Bruno Allard-Cadillac J2X 71 DISQ 3 S1.5 West Germany Curt Delfosse Argentina Pedro Escudero Gordini-Porsche T16 Special 70 Pushed through finish line DNF 33 S3.0 Brazil Francisco Landi Italy Gerino Gerini Officine Alfieri Maserati Maserati 300S 68 Engine DNF 44 S+3.0 Italy Luigi Musso GBR Peter Collins Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 410 S Scaglietti Spyder 61 Differential DNF 42 S+3.0 Argentina Roberto Bonomi Argentina Ernesto Florencio Castro Cranwell Ferrari 375 MM 59 Fire DNF 34 S3.0 Argentina Luis Milan Argentina Ela Capotosti Ferrari 625 TF 44 Clutch DNF 41 S+3.0 Brazil Celso Lara-Barberis Brazil Godofredo Vianna Ferrari 375 41 Engine DNF 30 S3.0 Venezuela Lino Fayen Venezuela Joao Rozendo Dos Santos Scuderia Guastalla Ferrari 750 Monza Spyder Scaglietti 37 Raer axle DNF 45 S+3.0 Argentina Enrique Saenz Valiente Argentina Jorge Camano Ferrari 375 Plus 35 Overheating DNF 22 S2.0 Italy Maria Teresa de Filippis Maserati A6GCS 26 Accident DNF 46 S+3.0 Argentina Carlos Najurieta Argentina Cesar Rivero Ferrari 375 MM 23 Gearbox DNF 5 S1.5 Argentina Miguel Jantus Argentina Alberto Gomez Gordini T15S 22 Engine DNF 23 S2.0 Argentina Ricardo Grandio Argentina Alberto Rodríguez Larreta Maserati A6GCS 21 DNF 25 S3.0 Argentina Danilo Clapesssoni Argentina César Reyes Ferrari 225 S 16 Engine DNF 2 S1.5 Argentina Tomas Mayol Argentina Juan Gobbi Porsche 550 Spyder 14 Engine DNF 21 S3.0 Uruguay Osvaldo Carballido Uruguay Elias Carballido Austin-Healey 100M 11 Fire DNF 35 S+3.0 Argentina José M. Millet Argentina Miguel Schroeder Jaguar C-Type 3 DNS 40 S+3.0 France Jean BlancArgentina Pedro J. Llano France Colette Duval Talbot-Lago T26GS Fastest Lap: Peter Collins, 3:26.4secs (102.7034 mph) Class winners Class Winners Sports +3000 36 Ferrari 857 S Gendebien / Hill Sports 3000 31 Maserati 300S Moss / Menditéguy Sports 2000 20 Ferrari 500 Mondial Muro / Pola Sports 1500 4 Maserati 150S de Tomaso / Tomasi http://www.racingsportscars.com/race/Buenos_Aires-1956-01-29-2316.html 1000 km Buenos Aires Standings after the race Pos Championship Points 1 Italy Maserati 8 2 Italy Ferrari 6 3 West Germany Mercedes-Benz 1 Note: Only the top five positions are included in this set of standings. Championship points were awarded for the first six places in each race in the order of 8-6-4-3-2-1. Manufacturers were only awarded points for their highest finishing car with no points awarded for positions filled by additional cars. Only the best 3 results out of the 5 races could be retained by each manufacturer. Points earned but not counted towards the championship totals are listed within brackets in the above table. References 30em 1956 World Sportscar Championship 1955 Targa Florio 12 Hours of Sebring Category:1000 km Buenos Aires 1000 km Buenos Aires Buenos Aires