# 1956 Formula 1 season

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World Champion: **Juan Fangio** (Ferrari, Argentina).

## Specs and regulations
- Engine: 2.5 L naturally aspirated or 0.75 L supercharged
- Points: 8 points for a win (8-6-4-3-2), plus one for the fastest lap until 1958
- Races: 8

## Calendar and winners
| Round | Grand Prix | Date | Circuit | Winner | Team |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Argentine Grand Prix | 1956-01-22 | Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez | Juan Fangio | Ferrari |
| 2 | Monaco Grand Prix | 1956-05-13 | Circuit de Monaco | Stirling Moss | Maserati |
| 3 | Indianapolis 500 | 1956-05-30 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway | Pat Flaherty | Watson |
| 4 | Belgian Grand Prix | 1956-06-03 | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | Peter Collins | Ferrari |
| 5 | French Grand Prix | 1956-07-01 | Reims-Gueux | Peter Collins | Ferrari |
| 6 | British Grand Prix | 1956-07-14 | Silverstone Circuit | Juan Fangio | Ferrari |
| 7 | German Grand Prix | 1956-08-05 | Nürburgring | Juan Fangio | Ferrari |
| 8 | Italian Grand Prix | 1956-09-02 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | Stirling Moss | Maserati |

## Drivers' standings (final)
| Pos | Driver | Team | Points | Wins |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Juan Fangio](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/fangio.md) | Ferrari | 30 | 3 |
| 2 | [Stirling Moss](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/moss.md) | Maserati | 27 | 2 |
| 3 | [Peter Collins](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/collins.md) | Ferrari | 25 | 2 |
| 4 | [Jean Behra](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/behra.md) | Maserati | 22 | 0 |
| 5 | [Pat Flaherty](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/flaherty.md) | Watson | 8 | 1 |
| 6 | [Eugenio Castellotti](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/castellotti.md) | Ferrari | 7.5 | 0 |
| 7 | [Sam Hanks](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/hanks.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 6 | 0 |
| 8 | [Paul Frère](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/frere.md) | Ferrari | 6 | 0 |
| 9 | [Paco Godia](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/godia.md) | Maserati | 6 | 0 |
| 10 | [Jack Fairman](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/fairman.md) | Connaught | 5 | 0 |
| 11 | [Luigi Musso](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/musso.md) | Ferrari | 4 | 1 |
| 12 | [Mike Hawthorn](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/hawthorn.md) | Vanwall | 4 | 0 |
| 13 | [Ron Flockhart](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/flockhart.md) | Connaught | 4 | 0 |
| 14 | [Don Freeland](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/freeland.md) | Phillips | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | [Alfonso de Portago](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/portago.md) | Ferrari | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | [Cesare Perdisa](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/perdisa.md) | Maserati | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | [Harry Schell](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/schell.md) | Maserati | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | [Johnnie Parsons](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/parsons.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | [Louis Rosier](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/rosier.md) | Maserati | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | [Luigi Villoresi](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/villoresi.md) | Maserati | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | [Horace Gould](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/gould.md) | Maserati | 2 | 0 |
| 22 | [Hernando da Silva Ramos](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/ramos.md) | Maserati | 2 | 0 |
| 23 | [Olivier Gendebien](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/gendebien.md) | Ferrari | 2 | 0 |
| 24 | [Dick Rathmann](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/dick-rathmann.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | [Gerino Gerini](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/gerini.md) | Maserati | 1.5 | 0 |
| 26 | [Chico Landi](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/landi.md) | Maserati | 1.5 | 0 |
| 27 | [Paul Russo](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/paul-russo.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 1 | 0 |
| - | [André Pilette](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/andre-pilette.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Luigi Piotti](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/piotti.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Óscar González](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/oscar-gonzalez.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Alberto Uria](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/uria.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Élie Bayol](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bayol.md) | Gordini | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Bob Sweikert](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/sweikert.md) | Kuzma | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Bob Veith](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/veith.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Toulo de Graffenried](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/graffenried.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Rodger Ward](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/ward.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Robert Manzon](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/manzon.md) | Gordini | 0 | 0 |
| - | [André Simon](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/simon.md) | Gordini | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jimmy Reece](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/reece.md) | Lesovsky | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Cliff Griffith](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/griffith.md) | Stevens | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Roy Salvadori](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/salvadori.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Gene Hartley](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/hartley.md) | Kuzma | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Bob Gerard](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/gerard.md) | Cooper | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Fred Agabashian](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/agabashian.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Bob Christie](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/christie.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Al Keller](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/keller.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Eddie Johnson](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/johnson.md) | Kuzma | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Billy Garrett](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/garrett.md) | Kuzma | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Duke Dinsmore](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/dinsmore.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Pat O'Connor](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/connor.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jimmy Bryan](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bryan.md) | Kuzma | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Bruce Halford](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/halford.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Ottorino Volonterio](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/volonterio.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [André Milhoux](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/milhoux.md) | Gordini | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Maurice Trintignant](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/trintignant.md) | Bugatti | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Carlos Menditeguy](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/menditeguy.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [José Froilán González](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/gonzalez.md) | Vanwall | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Umberto Maglioli](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/maglioli.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Piero Scotti](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/scotti.md) | Connaught | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Desmond Titterington](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/titterington.md) | Connaught | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Tony Brooks](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/brooks.md) | BRM | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Louis Chiron](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/chiron.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Piero Taruffi](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/taruffi.md) | Vanwall | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Giorgio Scarlatti](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/scarlatti.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jim Rathmann](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/rathmann.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Colin Chapman](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/chapman.md) | Vanwall | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jo Bonnier](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bonnier.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Johnnie Tolan](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/tolan.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Tony Bettenhausen](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/bettenhausen.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Ed Elisian](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/elisian.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Eddie Russo](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/russo.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Les Leston](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/leston.md) | Connaught | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jimmy Daywalt](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/daywalt.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Archie Scott Brown](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/scott-Brown.md) | Connaught | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jack Turner](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/turner.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Paul Emery](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/emery.md) | Emeryson | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Wolfgang von Trips](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/trips.md) | Ferrari | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Keith Andrews](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/andrews.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Jack Brabham](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/jack-brabham.md) | Maserati | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Andy Linden](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/linden.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Al Herman](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/herman.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Ray Crawford](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/ray-crawford.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Johnny Boyd](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/boyd.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Troy Ruttman](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/ruttman.md) | Kurtis Kraft | 0 | 0 |
| - | [Johnny Thomson](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/drivers/thomson.md) | Kuzma | 0 | 0 |

## Constructors' standings (final)
The Constructors' Championship started in 1958.

[1955 season](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/1955.md) · [1957 season](https://lapwake.vercel.app/history/1957.md)