1956 Formula One season

The **1956 Formula One** season was the 7th of the championship. The champion was Juan Manuel Fangio in a close battle.

## Season review

|Round|Race|Date|Location|Winning driver(s)|Constructor|Report|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Argentine Grand Prix|January 22|Oscar Gálvez|Luigi Musso /  Juan Manuel Fangio|Lancia-Ferrari|Report|
|2|Monaco Grand Prix|May 13|Monaco|Stirling Moss|Maserati|Report|
|3|Indianapolis 500|May 30|Indianapolis|Pat Flaherty|Watson-Offenhauser|Report|
|4|Belgian Grand Prix|June 3|Spa-Francorchamps|Peter Collins|Lancia-Ferrari|Report|
|5|French Grand Prix|July 1|Reims|Peter Collins|Lancia-Ferrari|Report|
|6|British Grand Prix|July 14|Silverstone|Juan Manuel Fangio|Lancia-Ferrari|Report|
|7|German Grand Prix|August 5|Nürburgring|Juan Manuel Fangio|Lancia-Ferrari|Report|
|8|Italian Grand Prix|September 2|Monza|Stirling Moss|Maserati|Report|

## 1956 Drivers Championship final standings

|valign="middle"|Pos.|valign="middle"|Driver|ARG|MON|500|BEL|FRA|GBR|GER|ITA|valign="middle"|Pts.|||||
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|Juan Manuel Fangio|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*† / Ret|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2*† / 4†||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4*|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2† / 8†|align="right"|**30 (33)**|
|Stirling Moss|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3*† / Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5† / Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret*|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*|align="right"|**27 (28)**|
|Peter Collins|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2†||bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2† / Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret† / Ret|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2†|align="right"|**25**|
|Jean Behra|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret† / Ret|align="right"|**22**|
|Pat Flaherty|||bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1||||||align="right"|**8**|||||||
|Eugenio Castellotti|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4† / Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10†|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret† / Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8† / Ret|align="right"|**7.5**|
|Sam Hanks|||bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2||||||align="right"|**6**|||||||
|Paul Frère||||bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|||||align="right"|**6**|||||||
|Paco Godia||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|align="right"|**6**|||
|Jack Fairman||||||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|align="right"|**5**||||||
|Luigi Musso|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1†|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**4**||||
|Mike Hawthorn|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10†|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**4**|||||
|Ron Flockhart||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|align="right"|**4**||||||
|Don Freeland|||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3||||||align="right"|**4**|||||||
|Alfonso de Portago|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2† / 10†|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**3**||||
|Cesare Perdisa||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3†|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5†|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**3**|||
|Harry Schell||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10† / Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**3**||
|Johnnie Parsons|||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4||||||align="right"|**3**|||||||
|Louis Rosier||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5||align="right"|**2**|||
|Luigi Villoresi||||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**2**|||
|Hernando da Silva Ramos||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**2**||||
|Horace Gould||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**2**||||
|Olivier Gendebien|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**2**||||||
|Dick Rathmann|||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5||||||align="right"|**2**|||||||
|Gerino Gerini|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4†|||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|align="right"|**1.5**||||||
|Chico Landi|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4†||||||||align="right"|**1.5**|||||||
|Paul Russo|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret*||||||align="right"|**1**|||||||
|Andre Pilette||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6†||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||
|Luigi Piotti|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|align="right"|**0**||||||
|Bob Sweikert|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Oscar Gonzalez|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6†||||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Alberto Uria|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6†||||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Elie Bayol||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6†|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Bob Veith|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Toulo de Graffenried||||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Rodger Ward|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Robert Manzon||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||
|Andre Simon|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|align="right"|**0**||||||
|Jimmy Reece|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Cliff Griffith|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Roy Salvadori||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|align="right"|**0**|||||
|Gene Hartley|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Bob Gerard||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Fred Agabashian|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Bob Christie|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Al Keller|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Eddie Johnson|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|15||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Billy Garrett|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|16||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Duke Dinsmore|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|17||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Pat O'Connor|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|18||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Jimmy Bryan|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|19||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Ottorino Volonterio|||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|NC||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Maurice Trintignant||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||
|Umberto Maglioli||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†|align="right"|**0**|||||
|Bruce Halford||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#000000" style="color: white"|DSQ|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||||
|José Froilán González|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Piero Taruffi|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**||||||
|Giorgio Scarlatti||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Carlos Menditéguy|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Jim Rathmann|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Johnnie Tolan|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Tony Bettenhausen|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Jimmy Daywalt|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Jack Turner|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Keith Andrews|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Andy Linden|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Al Herman|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Ray Crawford|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Johnny Boyd|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Troy Ruttman|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Johnny Thomson|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Piero Scotti||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Desmond Titterington||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Tony Brooks||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Archie Scott-Brown||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Paul Emery||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Jack Brabham||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Andre Milhoux|||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Les Leston||||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Ed Elisian|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Eddie Russo|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Colin Chapman|||||bgcolor="#ffffff"|DNS||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
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