Did Moss really beat Fangio?

The 1955 British Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Aintree. British driver Stirling Moss led a Mercedes 1-2-3-4 domination of the race, to win his first F1 Grand Prix ahead of his illustrious Argentine teammate, Juan Manuel Fangio.

Picture above: Fangio leads Moss (Mercedes) in the early stages of the 1955 British Formula 1 Grand Prix at Aintree. Nevertheless, the British driver is about to pass his teammate and win the race.

Several people, including Moss, believed that the Argentine allowed his protégé to claim his debut win in front of his home crowd. This was however consistently denied by Fangio, always a gentleman, who claimed that Moss “was simply faster that day”.