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Race · Round 5 of 8 ·

1956 French Grand Prix

Peter Collins won for Ferrari from 3rd on the grid at Reims-Gueux.

High of 21 °C, 3.8 mm of 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
Reims-GueuxGueux, France
Winner
Peter CollinsFerrari
Entries
2013 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
PosDriverConstructorChassisGridLapsOutPointsFL
1Peter CollinsFerrari555361Finished8
2Eugenio CastellottiFerrari555261Finished6
3Jean BehraMaserati250F761Finished4
4Juan Manuel FangioFerrari555161Finished4fastest lap
5Cesare Perdisa sharedMaserati250F1359Finished1
5Sir Stirling Moss sharedMaserati250F812Gearbox1
6Louis RosierMaserati250F1258Finished0
7Paco GodiaMaserati250F1757Finished0
8Hermano da Silva RamosGordini—1457Finished0
9Robert ManzonGordini—1556Finished0
10Mike Hawthorn sharedVanwallVW 2656Finished0
10Harry Schell sharedVanwallVW 245Engine0
11André PiletteGordini—1955Finished0
DNFAndré SimonMaserati250F2041Engine0
DNFPiero TaruffiMaserati250F1640Engine0
DNFOlivier GendebienFerrari5551138Clutch0
DNFLuigi VilloresiMaserati250F1023Brakes0
DNFAlfonso de PortagoFerrari555920Gearbox0
DNFMaurice TrintignantBugattiT2511818Throttle0
DNSColin ChapmanVanwallVW 25—Injury in practice0
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
F1DB layout reims-2 · 8.302 km · 7 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

0102030405060Laps completedGridResult31Peter Collins22Eugenio Castellotti73Jean Behra14Juan Manuel Fangio135Cesare Perdisa85Sir Stirling Moss126Louis Rosier177Paco Godia148Hermano da Silva Ramos159Robert Manzon610Mike Hawthorn410Harry Schell1911André Pilette20DNFAndré Simon16DNFPiero Taruffi11DNFOlivier Gendebien10DNFLuigi Villoresi9DNFAlfonso de Portago18DNFMaurice Trintignant

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
DriverGridResultLaps
Peter Collins3161
Eugenio Castellotti2261
Jean Behra7361
Juan Manuel Fangio1461
Cesare Perdisa shared13559
Sir Stirling Moss shared8512
Louis Rosier12658
Paco Godia17757
Hermano da Silva Ramos14857
Robert Manzon15956
Mike Hawthorn shared61056
Harry Schell shared4105
André Pilette191155
André Simon20DNF41
Piero Taruffi16DNF40
Olivier Gendebien11DNF38
Luigi Villoresi10DNF23
Alfonso de Portago9DNF20
Maurice Trintignant18DNF18

Qualifying

Qualifying
PosDriverConstructorNo.TimeGap≈ DistanceInterval
1Juan Manuel FangioFerrari102:23.300—0 m—
2Eugenio CastellottiFerrari122:24.600+1.30075 m+1.300
3Peter CollinsFerrari142:24.900+1.60093 m+0.300
4Harry SchellVanwall222:26.100+2.800162 m+1.200
5Colin ChapmanVanwall262:26.800+3.500203 m+0.700
6Mike HawthornVanwall242:27.000+3.700214 m+0.200
7Jean BehraMaserati42:27.800+4.500261 m+0.800
8Sir Stirling MossMaserati22:29.900+6.600382 m+2.100
9Alfonso de PortagoFerrari162:32.800+9.500550 m+2.900
10Luigi VilloresiMaserati382:33.300+10.000579 m+0.500
11Olivier GendebienFerrari442:34.500+11.200649 m+1.200
12Louis RosierMaserati362:35.300+12.000695 m+0.800
13Cesare PerdisaMaserati62:35.600+12.300713 m+0.300
14Hermano da Silva RamosGordini322:35.900+12.600730 m+0.300
15Robert ManzonGordini302:36.900+13.600788 m+1.000
16Piero TaruffiMaserati82:37.500+14.200823 m+0.600
17Paco GodiaMaserati402:40.400+17.100991 m+2.900
18Maurice TrintignantBugatti282:42.000+18.7001,083 m+1.600
19André PiletteGordini342:46.800+23.5001,361 m+4.800
20André SimonMaserati422:47.900+24.6001,425 m+1.100
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, Qualifying

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.

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

Where this comes from

Round
5 of 1956
Grand Prix
French Grand Prix
Dates
Layout raced
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Format
Standard weekend
Constructor
Ferrari
Entrant
Ferrari
Confidence
reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.