Moss was unfazed

Stirling Moss, driving a Maserati 250F, won the 1956 Monaco Formula One Grand Prix (photo above), the second of eight rounds of the 1956 World Drivers’ Championship. 

Moss, starting from the middle of the front row, three cars per row then, took the lead on the first lap at the Gazomètre corner, led all 100 laps of the race and took a magnificent victory in the Principality.

Juan Manuel Fangio clipped the straw bales on lap 2, causing Harry Schell and Luigi Musso to retire as they tried to avoid him. On lap 54, Peter Collins, who was in second place, pitted and handed the wheel to Fangio, who had in turn passed his car to Castellotti.

Moss was unfazed by Ferrari’s tactics and crossed the finish line six seconds ahead of the Ferrari driven by Collins and Fangio. Frenchman Jean Behra finished third, one lap down, in a Maserati.