1956 Monaco Grand Prix

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The Owen's BRM made their first appearance but after qualifying both cars were withdrawn due to engine valve problems.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	Template:Flagicon Juan Manuel Fangio	Ferrari	1:44.0	—
2	28	Template:Flagicon Stirling Moss	Maserati	1:44.6	+0.6
3	22	Template:Flagicon Eugenio Castellotti	Ferrari	1:44.9	+0.9
4	30	Template:Flagicon Jean Behra	Maserati	1:45.3	+1.3
5	16	Template:Flagicon Harry Schell	Vanwall	1:45.6	+1.6
6	14	Template:Flagicon Maurice Trintignant	Vanwall	1:45.6	+1.6
7	32	Template:Flagicon Cesare Perdisa	Maserati	1:46.0	+2.0
8	24	Template:Flagicon Luigi Musso	Ferrari	1:46.8	+2.8
9	26	Template:Flagicon Peter Collins	Ferrari	1:47.0	+3.0
10	10	Template:Flagicon Mike Hawthorn	BRM	1:49.3	+5.3
11	4	Template:Flagicon Élie Bayol	Gordini	1:50.0	+6.0
12	2	Template:Flagicon Robert Manzon	Gordini	1:50.3	+6.3
13	12	Template:Flagicon Tony Brooks	BRM	1:50.4	+6.4
14	6	Template:Flagicon Hermano da Silva Ramos	Gordini	1:50.6	+6.6
15	8	Template:Flagicon Louis Rosier	Maserati	1:51.6	+7.6
16	18	Template:Flagicon Horace Gould	Maserati	1:51.7	+7.7
DNQ	36	Template:Flagicon Giorgio Scarlatti	Ferrari	2:09.1	+25.1
WD	34	Template:Flagicon Louis Chiron	Maserati
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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	Template:Flagicon Stirling Moss	Maserati	100	3:00:32.9	2	8
2	26	Template:Flagicon Peter Collins Template:Flagicon Juan Manuel Fangio	Ferrari	100	+6.1 sec	9	3 4Template:Ref
3	30	Template:Flagicon Jean Behra	Maserati	99	+1 Lap	4	4
4	20	Template:Flagicon Juan Manuel Fangio Template:Flagicon Eugenio Castellotti	Ferrari	94	+6 Laps	1	0Template:Ref 1.5
5	6	Template:Flagicon Hermano da Silva Ramos	Gordini	93	+7 Laps	14	2
6	4	Template:Flagicon Élie Bayol Template:Flagicon André Pilette	Gordini	88	+12 Laps	11
7	32	Template:Flagicon Cesare Perdisa	Maserati	86	+14 Laps	7
8	18	Template:Flagicon Horace Gould	Maserati	85	+15 Laps	16
Ret	2	Template:Flagicon Robert Manzon	Gordini	90	Accident	12
Ret	8	Template:Flagicon Louis Rosier	Maserati	72	Engine	15
Ret	22	Template:Flagicon Eugenio Castellotti	Ferrari	14	Clutch	3
Ret	14	Template:Flagicon Maurice Trintignant	Vanwall	13	Overheating	6
Ret	16	Template:Flagicon Harry Schell	Vanwall	2	Accident	5
Ret	24	Template:Flagicon Luigi Musso	Ferrari	2	Accident	8
DNQ	36	Template:Flagicon Giorgio Scarlatti	Ferrari
WD	10	Template:Flagicon Mike Hawthorn	BRM		Engine Valve	10
WD	12	Template:Flagicon Tony Brooks	BRM		Engine Valve	13
WD	34	Template:Flagicon Louis Chiron	Maserati		Blown Engine
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Notes

• Template:Note – Includes 1 point for fastest lap
• Template:Note – 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	Template:Flagicon Jean Behra	10
	2	Template:Flagicon Juan Manuel Fangio	9
7	3	Template:Flagicon Stirling Moss	8
1	4	Template:Flagicon Luigi Musso	4
1	5	Template:Flagicon Mike Hawthorn	4
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