1955 Formula One season

The **1955 Formula One** season was the 6th of the championship. The champion was Juan Manuel Fangio in a close battle.

## Season review

|Round|Race|Date|Location|Winning driver|Constructor|Report|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Argentine Grand Prix|January 16|Oscar Gálvez|Juan Manuel Fangio|Mercedes|Report|
|2|Monaco Grand Prix|May 22|Monaco|Maurice Trintignant|Ferrari|Report|
|3|Indianapolis 500|May 30|Indianapolis|Bob Sweikert|Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser|Report|
|4|Belgian Grand Prix|June 5|Spa-Francorchamps|Juan Manuel Fangio|Mercedes|Report|
|5|Dutch Grand Prix|June 19|Zandvoort|Juan Manuel Fangio|Mercedes|Report|
|6|British Grand Prix|July 16|Aintree|Stirling Moss|Mercedes|Report|
|7|Italian Grand Prix|September 11|Monza|Juan Manuel Fangio|Mercedes|Report|

## 1955 Drivers Championship final standings

|valign="middle"|Pos.|valign="middle"|Driver|ARG|MON|500|BEL|NED|GBR|ITA|valign="middle"|Pts.||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 85%"||||||||||||||||
|Juan Manuel Fangio|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret*||bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|align="right"|**40 (41)**|
|Stirling Moss|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4† / Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9||bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret*|align="right"|**23**|
|Eugenio Castellotti|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6† / Ret|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|align="right"|**12**|
|Maurice Trintignant|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2† / 3† / Ret|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|align="right"|**11.33**|
|Nino Farina|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2† / 3†|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|||bgcolor="#ffffff"|DNS|align="right"|**10.33**|||
|Piero Taruffi||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8†||||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|align="right"|**9**||||
|Bob Sweikert|||bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|||||align="right"|**8**||||||
|Roberto Mieres|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5†|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4*|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|align="right"|**7**|
|Jean Behra|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6† / Ret† / Ret|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3† / Ret†||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5† / Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|align="right"|**6**|
|Luigi Musso|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7† / Ret†|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**6**|
|Karl Kling|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4† / Ret|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**5**||
|Jimmy Davies|||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|||||align="right"|**4**||||||
|Tony Bettenhausen|||bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2†|||||align="right"|**3**||||||
|Paul Russo|||bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2†|||||align="right"|**3**||||||
|Paul Frère||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8†||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4||||align="right"|**3**|||||
|Johnny Thomson|||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|||||align="right"|**3**||||||
|José Froilán González|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2†|||||||align="right"|**2**||||||
|Cesare Perdisa||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3† / Ret†||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||||align="right"|**2**|||||
|Luigi Villoresi|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret† / Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|||||bgcolor="#ffffff"|DNS|align="right"|**2**||||
|Carlos Menditéguy|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret† / Ret||||||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|align="right"|**2**|||||
|Umberto Maglioli|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3†||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|align="right"|**1.33**|||||
|Hans Herrmann|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4†|||||||align="right"|**1**||||||
|Walt Faulkner|||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5†|||||align="right"|**1**||||||
|Bill Homeier|||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5†|||||align="right"|**1**||||||
|Bill Vukovich|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret*|||||align="right"|**1**||||||
|Mike Hawthorn||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6†|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|align="right"|**0**||
|Harry Schell|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6† / 7† / Ret†|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9† / Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||
|Louis Chiron||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6||||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Andy Linden|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Jacques Pollet||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**||||
|Al Herman|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Mike Sparken||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Sergio Mantovani|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7† / Ret†|||||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Hernando da Silva Ramos|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**||||
|Lance Macklin||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||align="right"|**0**|||||
|Pat O'Connor|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Louis Rosier||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|||align="right"|**0**||||
|Ken Wharton||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9†|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||||
|Jimmy Daywalt|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|John Fitch|||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|align="right"|**0**||||||
|Pat Flaherty|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Duane Carter|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Johnny Claes|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Chuck Weyant|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Eddie Johnson|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Jim Rathmann|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Robert Manzon||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||
|Horace Gould|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**||||
|Alberto Ascari|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||
|Elie Bayol|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||
|Andre Simon||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**|||||
|Peter Collins||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||||
|Peter Walker|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†||align="right"|**0**|||||
|Jesus Iglesias|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Pablo Birger|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Alberto Uria|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Don Freeland|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Cal Niday|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Art Cross|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Shorty Templeman|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Sam Hanks|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Keith Andrews|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Johnnie Parsons|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Eddie Russo|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Ray Crawford|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Jimmy Bryan|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Jack McGrath|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Al Keller|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Johnny Boyd|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Ed Elisian|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Rodger Ward|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Jerry Hoyt|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Jimmy Reece|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Fred Agabashian|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Kenneth McAlpine||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Jack Brabham||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Roy Salvadori||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Leslie Marr||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Jean Lucas|||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**||||||
|Clemar Bucci|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†|||||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Tony Rolt||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Ted Whiteaway||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ||||||align="right"|**0**||||||
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- Fastest lap (1 point awarded)
- † Position shared between more drivers of the same car
- Only the best 5 results counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.

## Non-Championship race results

Other Formula One races also held in 1955, which did not count towards the World Championship.

|Race Name|Circuit|Date|Winning driver|Constructor|Report|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|VII Gran Premio del Valentino|Valentino Park|March 27|Alberto Ascari|Lancia|Report|
|XVI Grand Prix de Pau|Pau|April 11|Jean Behra|Maserati|Report|
|III Glover Trophy|Goodwood|April 11|Roy Salvadori|Maserati|Report|
|IV Grand Prix de Bordeaux|Bordeaux|April 25|Jean Behra|Maserati|Report|
|VII BRDC International Trophy|Silverstone|May 7|Peter Collins|Maserati|Report|
|VIII Gran Premio di Napoli|Posillipo|May 8|Alberto Ascari|Lancia|Report|
|XVII Grand Prix d'Albi|Albi|May 29|André Simon|Maserati|Report|
|III Curtis Trophy|Snetteron|May 29|Roy Salvadori|Maserati|Report|
|III Cornwall M.R.C. Formula 1 Race|Davidstow|May 30|Leslie Marr|Connaught-Alta|Report|
|III London Trophy|Crystal Palace|July 30|Mike Hawthorn|Maserati|Report|
|III Daily Record Trophy|Charterhall|August 6|Bob Gerard|Maserati|Report|
|III RedeX Trophy|Snetterton|August 13|Harry Schell|Vanwall|Report|
|II Daily Telegraph Trophy|Aintree|September 3|Roy Salvadori|Maserati|Report|
|II International Gold Cup|Oulton Park|September 24|Stirling Moss|Maserati|Report|
|I Avon Trophy|Castle Combe|October 1|Harry Schell|Vanwall|Report|
|V Gran Premio di Siracusa|Syracuse|October 23|Tony Brooks|Connaught-Alta|Report|