British Grand Prix

Date
Sat 16th July 1955 (UTC)
Sat 16th July 1955 (Local)

Timestamp
1955-07-16T14:00:00

Time

14:00:00 UTC

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League
Formula 1

Season
1955

Round
6

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Location
Silverstone Circuit

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The 1955 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Aintree on 16 July 1955. It was race 6 of 7 in the 1955 World Championship of Drivers. 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. Several people, including Moss, believed that the Argentine allowed his British protégé to claim his debut win in front of his home crowd. This was, however, at Moss' inquiry, consistently denied by Fangio, who claimed that Moss "was simply faster that day."
In the wake of the Le Mans disaster, the French, German, Swiss and Spanish Grands Prix which were to take place at existing circuits had all been cancelled. The Aintree circuit was an all-new circuit around the Grand National horse racing course in Liverpool; it was built to be at the time one of the safest and most modern racing facilities in Europe.
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.

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Result List

Result Description
1 Stirling Moss Mercedes 3:07:21.2
2 Juan Manuel Fangio Mercedes +0.2
3 Karl Kling Mercedes +1:11.8
4 Piero Taruffi Mercedes +1 Lap
5 Luigi Musso Maserati +1 Lap
6 Mike Hawthorn - Eugenio Castellotti (shared car) Ferrari +3 Laps
7 Mike Sparken Gordini +9 Laps
8 Lance Macklin Maserati +11 Laps
9 Ken Wharton - Harry Schell (shared car) Vanwall +18 Laps

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