Race · Round 4 of 7 · 5 June 1955

1955 Belgian Grand Prix

Juan Manuel Fangio won for Mercedes from 2nd on the grid at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. With this win, Juan Manuel Fangio set a new record of 15 championship Grand Prix wins.

High of 18 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsStavelot, Belgium
Winner: Juan Manuel FangioMercedes
Pole: Eugenio Castellotti
Fastest lap: Juan Manuel Fangio
Entries: 1610 classified

This race includes a shared drive. Two drivers took turns in one car and both are classified in the same position, so a position below appears twice. That is correct, not a duplicated row.

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Juan Manuel Fangio	Mercedes	W196	2	36	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Sir Stirling Moss	Mercedes	W196	3	36	Finished	6
3	Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	Ferrari	—	4	36	Finished	4
4	Paul Frère	Ferrari	—	8	36	Finished	3
5	Roberto Mieres shared	Maserati	250F	13	35	Finished	1
5	Jean Behra shared	Maserati	250F	5	3	Spun off	1
6	Maurice Trintignant	Ferrari	—	10	35	Finished	0
7	Luigi Musso	Maserati	250F	7	34	Finished	0
8	Cesare Perdisa	Maserati	250F	11	33	Finished	0
9	Louis Rosier	Maserati	250F	12	33	Finished	0
DNF	Karl Kling	Mercedes	W196	6	21	Oil leak	0
DNF	Eugenio Castellotti	Lancia	D50	1	16	Gearbox	0
DNF	Mike Hawthorn	Vanwall	VW 55	9	8	Gearbox	0
DNS	Johnny Claes	Maserati	250F	—	—	Engine	0
DNS	Piero Taruffi	Ferrari	—	—	—	DNS	0
DNS	Harry Schell	Ferrari	—	—	—	DNS	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout spa-francorchamps-1 · 14.12 km · 21 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap. Drivers who shared a car have a line each.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Juan Manuel Fangio	2	1	36
Sir Stirling Moss	3	2	36
Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	4	3	36
Paul Frère	8	4	36
Roberto Mieres shared	13	5	35
Jean Behra shared	5	5	3
Maurice Trintignant	10	6	35
Luigi Musso	7	7	34
Cesare Perdisa	11	8	33
Louis Rosier	12	9	33
Karl Kling	6	DNF	21
Eugenio Castellotti	1	DNF	16
Mike Hawthorn	9	DNF	8

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Eugenio Castellotti	Lancia	30	4:18.100	—	0 m	—
2	Juan Manuel Fangio	Mercedes	10	4:18.600	+0.500	27 m	+0.500
3	Sir Stirling Moss	Mercedes	14	4:19.200	+1.100	60 m	+0.600
4	Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina	Ferrari	2	4:20.900	+2.800	153 m	+1.700
5	Jean Behra	Maserati	20	4:23.600	+5.500	300 m	+2.700
6	Karl Kling	Mercedes	12	4:24.000	+5.900	322 m	+0.400
7	Luigi Musso	Maserati	22	4:26.400	+8.300	453 m	+2.400
8	Paul Frère	Ferrari	6	4:29.700	+11.600	634 m	+3.300
9	Mike Hawthorn	Vanwall	40	4:33.000	+14.900	814 m	+3.300
10	Maurice Trintignant	Ferrari	4	4:33.200	+15.100	825 m	+0.200
11	Cesare Perdisa	Maserati	26	4:50.900	+32.800	1,792 m	+17.700
12	Louis Rosier	Maserati	28	4:55.400	+37.300	2,038 m	+4.500
13	Roberto Mieres	Maserati	24	5:09.000	+50.900	2,781 m	+13.600

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Mercedes-Benz W196
KlingK-MB-W196-1976 · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de · unchecked

Maserati 250F
Maserati 250 F, Bj. 1957 (1977-08-14) Südkehre · Spurzem - Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Round: 4 of 1955
Grand Prix: Belgian Grand Prix
Dates: 5 Jun 1955
Layout raced: Original road circuit · 14.1 km · 19 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Mercedes
Entrant: Mercedes
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.