F1/Seasons/1955/Round 2
1955 · Round 2 of 7

Monaco Grand Prix

May 22, 1955 · Circuit de Monaco · Monte Carlo · Monaco
Trintignant
WINNER
Maurice Trintignant · Ferrari · from grid 9
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+13
MOST PLACES GAINED
Louis Chiron · grid 19 to P6
11 of 21
CLASSIFIED
10 retired

01/Classification

21 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Maurice TrintignantFerrari9+81002:58:09.8008
2Eugenio CastellottiLancia4+2100+20.2006
3Jean BehraMaserati5+299Spun off0
3Cesare PerdisaMaserati5+299Spun off0
4Nino FarinaFerrari14+1099+1 Lap3
5Luigi VilloresiLancia7+299+1 Lap2
6Louis ChironLancia19+1395+5 Laps0
7Jacques PolletGordini20+1391+9 Laps0
8Paul FrèreFerrari15+786+14 Laps0
8Piero TaruffiFerrari15+786+14 Laps0
9Stirling MossMercedes3-681+19 Laps0
RAlberto AscariLancia280Accident0
RHarry SchellFerrari1868Engine0
RRoberto MieresMaserati664Transmission0
RÉlie BayolGordini1663Transmission0
RJuan FangioMercedes149Transmission1
RRobert ManzonGordini1338Gearbox0
RAndré SimonMercedes1024Engine0
RMike HawthornVanwall1222Throttle0
RLouis RosierMaserati178Fuel leak0
RLuigi MussoMaserati87Transmission0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 10 of 21 cars here were not classified (10 retired). Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

11 of 21 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Louis ChironLancia196+13
Jacques PolletGordini207+13
Nino FarinaFerrari144+10
Maurice TrintignantFerrari91+8
Paul FrèreFerrari158+7
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Stirling MossMercedes39-6

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 11 of the 21 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 10: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and no car here carries grid 0, the value the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1955 season

7 rounds
JAN 16 to SEP 11
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1JAN 16Argentine Grand PrixAutódromo Juan y Oscar GálvezJuan FangioMercedes22
2MAY 22Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoMaurice TrintignantFerrari21
3MAY 30Indianapolis 500Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayBob SweikertKurtis Kraft35
4JUN 5Belgian Grand PrixCircuit de Spa-FrancorchampsJuan FangioMercedes16
5JUN 19Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Park ZandvoortJuan FangioMercedes16
6JUL 16British Grand PrixAintreeStirling MossMercedes26
7SEP 11Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaJuan FangioMercedes23

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1955 season is complete at 7 rounds.