Mercedes-Benz had two cars left out of four, Maserati four cars out of seven and Ferrari three out of four, Castellotti’s car sounding very healthy in spite of having been taken to 8,200 rpm in the opening dice. 2001-2020 © F1-Fansite.com. By removing the white pylons it was possible to use only the speed circuit of two straights and two bankings. Complete 1955 Italian Grand Prix F1 classification: Check out the race winner, podium, retirements and results of all drivers & teams that finished the GP. Which series would you like included? 7 of 1955 When he came by the pits on the half lap the car could hardly drag itself along, the noise and smoke being horrible to witness, but the determined Behra nursed it along and just managed to limp over the finishing line, to stop a few yards beyond in a cloud of smoke and oil, the engine a total wreck. 1. The Tipo 555 Ferraris were handling remarkably well on the bumpy concrete bankings but lacked power, while the Vanwalls and the Gordinis were giving their drivers a rough ride, especially Schell, who was trying hard. The famous pave turns at Vedano were not used, a new corner being built to join the two straights of the old circuit before the south banking was reached. 26° Gran Premio d'Italia This meant that the Italian GP became the seventh round of the World Championship. Tweet. After only two laps the four Mercedes-Benz cars were comfortably in line-ahead formation but Castellotti was doing all he knew to hang on to them, the Italian crowd screaming with joy at this terrific display of tenacity. For Friday afternoon the full 10-kilometre circuit was put into use and times taken to decide the starting-grid positions. The Mercedes-Benz team was dominant with Juan-Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss and Karl Kling sharing the front row, well ahead of Castellotti's 555. The Spanish GP, which had been scheduled for October 23, was also canceled and so the F1 season after Monza. It was the seventh and final race of the 1955 … Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Farina and Villoresi becoming spectators. Car-themed versions contain all of the parts needed to build a range of classic models, ready to display, which…. Although every effort has been made to ensure the data is accurate and up to date, GP Racing Stats does not accept any responsibility for and cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies. Italian Grand Prix 1955 11. syyskuuta 1955 Monzan radalla. 50 laps, 500.00km (310.752 miles) Jean Lucas (Gordini) Retired – Engine, 20. Of the German cars, Fangio had the new long-chassis streamlined car, with inboard brakes, Moss had a similar one with last year’s bodywork, Kling a new unstreamlined long-chassis one with inboard brakes and Taruffi a medium-length one with outboard brakes. 1. The Spanish GP, which had been scheduled for October 23, was also canceled and so the F1 season after Monza. An overview of the 1955 Italian Grand Prix, including race & qualifying results, start grid, post-race championship standings, and milestones. He rejoined and began to charge hard to catch up but retired on lap 28 with engine failure. The race was run for the first time on a combined road course-oval circuit, measuring exactly 10 km long. The Continental tyre people were perfectly happy about the tyres on the Mercedes-Benz, even though they were still 16-in, but Englebert were far from happy with their tyres on the Scuderia Ferrari cars, especially on the very fast Lancias driven by Castellotti and Farina. Almost all the cars were having their suspensions modified to give more ground clearance as the bumps on the bankings were causing many of them to ground the bottom of the engines or rear axles. Jacques Pollet (Gordini) Retired – Engine, 16. With the new circuit the start led into the Grande Curve and at the half-lap the field passed the grandstands on the pits side, before taking the North banking, and it was Moss who led comfortably from Fangio, Taruffi, Kling and Castellotti. Gould also went out when he rubbed a hole in the bottom of the crankcase of his Maserati, due to bottoming on the banking, and Fitch appeared on the leader board, running regularly with the Moss Maserati. The 1955 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Autodromo Nazionale Monza, in Monza, Italy on 11 September 1955. Running the race over the combined road and track circuit was setting a big problem to the tyre experts, for the banked oval really demanded track tyres with thin treads, but normal road-racing covers had to be used to cope with the road section. Until then Fangio had been reclining in the shade of Neubauer’s huge shadow, the team chief standing over his number one driver like an enormous hen with her favourite chick. Collins had been running steadily in the middle of the field but had to make a brief call at the pits to have some bits screwed back on and this put him right out of the picture, while Trintignant suffered the same fate. Moss was not making any real effort, as he was still waiting for a long-chassis car to arrive from Stuttgart; Kling was really trying and recorded second fastest practice lap. Use while waiting for the plane to or from the track — Roger Linton This was the last time a Mercedes chassis would run in Formula One for more than 50 years, as the team had already announced its withdrawal from all forms of racing in the aftermath of the Le Mans disaster. Time Luigi Musso (Maserati) Retired – Gearbox, 13. At the start Moss took the lead with Fangio, Piero Taruffi (in the fourth Mercedes-Benz) and Kling running at the front. The medium-length streamlined car that had been fitted with the temporary nose cowling had had yet another type fitted, the aluminium sheet being welded in the workshop lorry and pop-riveted onto the existing body. The result was the odd sight of a comparatively slow Ferrari or Maserati on the outside rushing past Fangio and Taruffi, who were on the slow inside straight, this phenomenon giving many drivers their only chance to experience the joy of overtaking a Mercedes-Benz. Highlights 1955 Italian Formula 1 Grand Prix with banked corners. Driver This time the cars passed the grandstands on the inside of the white pylons, went on to the north banking to complete a full lap of the speed circuit, and rejoined the grandstand straight to finish the full lap. After the British GP in mid-July the events which had been scheduled for Germany (July 31) and Switzerland (August 21) were canceled because of the backlash against motor racing in the wake of the Le Mans disaster in June. The new banking quickly caused problems with Giuseppe Farina having a big crash when a tire failed on his Lancia D50, Enzo Ferrari having acquired the Vittorio Jano-designed cars from Lancia. Time Round Select Language English Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Nederlands Polski Português Русский Suomi Tiếng Việt 简体中文 हिन्दी العربية 日本語 … Fangio retired with a broken steering arm, while Behra also had to pull out. ← Previous Official Name 3. It was the seventh and final race of the season, after the cancellations of the French, German, Swiss and Spanish GPs in the wake of the Le Mans disaster. Lapping at 2 min 53 sec, against the 2 min 46 sec of practice, Fangio led the triumphant Mercedes-Benz procession more and more into the lead, poor Castellotti having no one to back him up in his lone battle. The 1955 Italian Grand Prix was held on September 11. The use of data on this website is at your own risk. By dividing the finishing straight into two parts, by means of little white rubber pylons, it was possible to make a full circuit of 10 kilometre length. The twenty cars lined up in rows of three-two-three, with Fangio, Moss and Kling in the front, Castellotti in row two on his oven in the Ferrari, in spite of not having practised in the car, and the Maseratis of Behra and Mieres behind, with a space beside them where the missing Villoresi should have been. There were changes at the Monza circuit with two new high-banked curves built and the lap length increased from 3.9-miles to 6.2-miles. The race was run for the first time on a combined road course-oval circuit, measuring exactly 10 km long. Kling also went out with gearbox trouble so that by the end of the race Fangio and Taruffi gave Mercedes a 1-2 finish, while Castellotti was a distant third for Ferrari. Although this bunch were striving for 12th place it was as good an exhibition of real motor racing seen for a long time. 2:46.9 on lap 21 Italian GP 1955. Driver In addition to the three Lancia cars entered by Enzo Ferrari there were three Tipo 555 Super Squalo Ferraris, on which a great deal of detail development had been done, including the fitting of five-speed gearboxes. Race 1955 Italian Grand Prix was part of the 1955 F1 World Championship and was won by Juan Manuel Fangio on 1955-09-11 00:00:00 2. The next one to drop out of this gruelling race was Pollet, and shortly after starting his 28th lap Moss felt something break in the Mercedes-Benz engine, and he coasted to a standstill on the far side of the circuit, so that put paid to all his efforts, the Monza track once more claiming the unhappy young Englishman as a victim. The Mercedes challengers are worked on in the garage. “The Mercedes-Benz demonstration was now looking rather sick and at the end of lap 32 it became positively ill”. The streamlined Maserati did not appear on this day, Behra contenting himself with a few laps in a normal Maserati, while the Vanwalls had been changed from 16-in, wheels to 17-in, in order to try and minimise, the possibility of tyre trouble, the cowlings over the front suspension being removed to give clearance.
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