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14. Apr 2022
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After the Le Mans drama, the glorious Mercedes team entered exceptionally a fourth car in the summer of 1955 in Formula One, next to their regular drivers: Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss and Karl Kling.
Hans Hermann and André Simon had earlier been called up at Monaco, then the veteran Piero Taruffi ensured a quadruple for the Silver Arrows at the British Grand Prix held at Aintree (picture above, in front of the Ferrari 625 of Maurice Trintignant), behind the trio Moss-Fangio-Kling.
Finally, in the last appearance of the W196’s on the Monza banking, Taruffi finished second behind Fangio who drove a streamlined version (picture below), his best result in F1, at the grand age of 49.
Categories:
Formula 1, Aintree, Monaco, Monza, British Grand Prix, Monaco Grand Prix, Italian Grand Prix, Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss, Karl Kling, Piero Taruffi, André Simon, Maurice Trintignant, Mercedes, Mercedes-Benz, Argentina, England, Germany, Italy, France, 1955
Source: DR
