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Front row left to right: Fangio, Collins, Moss Motorsport Images The front row of the grid saw the interesting sight of three completely different Grand Prix cars lined up, in the order Maserati, Lancia/Ferrari and Vanwall, driven, respectively, by Fangio, Collins and Moss. In row 2 were Brooks and Hawthorn, then came Trintignant, Menditeguy and Schell, followed by von Trips and Gregory. In row 5 were Flockhart, Gould and Lewis-Evans, row 6 Scarlatti and Brabham, and in solitary state at the back was Bueb. There was a slight panic at the start when the Moss Vanwall refused to start on the starter and had to be pushed at the last moment, but all was well and as everyone jumped the starter’s flag the sixteen cars rushed away towards the Gasworks hairpin. For a moment the Vanwall hesitated as the wheels spun and then they gripped and Moss shot off into the lead, cutting smartly across from the left on the road to the right as he took the hairpin and successfully blocking Collins and Fangio who were about to try and push him off the line. Everything seemed set for Moss to run right away from the rest of the field on the opening lap as he did last year with the Maserati, but though the Vanwall did not hang about, it could not shake the two rivals off. The roaring pack went by at the end of the opening lap in the order Moss, Fangio, Collins, Schell, Brooks, Menditeguy, Hawthorn, von Trips and the rest, and up the hill to the Casino Collins went past Fangio into second place. Lap two saw the order unchanged, but Collins was closing on Moss, and the next lap saw Schell drop back behind von Trips and Brooks in fourth place. As the cars left the tunnel towards the end of the fourth lap Moss was only a few feet ahead of Collins, while Fangio was some way back, followed by Brooks, Hawthorn, von Trips, Schell, Menditeguy, and the others being led by Gould. Juan Manuel Fangio (Maserati 250F), 1st position and Stirling Moss (Vanwall VW3), retired, lead at the start of the 1 - Photo by Edward Quinn

Front row left to right: Fangio, Collins, Moss Motorsport Images The front row of the grid saw the interesting sight of three completely different Grand Prix cars lined up, in the order Maserati, Lancia/Ferrari and Vanwall, driven, respectively, by Fangio, Collins and Moss. In row 2 were Brooks and Hawthorn, then came Trintignant, Menditeguy and Schell, followed by von Trips and Gregory. In row 5 were Flockhart, Gould and Lewis-Evans, row 6 Scarlatti and Brabham, and in solitary state at the back was Bueb. There was a slight panic at the start when the Moss Vanwall refused to start on the starter and had to be pushed at the last moment, but all was well and as everyone jumped the starter’s flag the sixteen cars rushed away towards the Gasworks hairpin. For a moment the Vanwall hesitated as the wheels spun and then they gripped and Moss shot off into the lead, cutting smartly across from the left on the road to the right as he took the hairpin and successfully blocking Collins and Fangio who were about to try and push him off the line. Everything seemed set for Moss to run right away from the rest of the field on the opening lap as he did last year with the Maserati, but though the Vanwall did not hang about, it could not shake the two rivals off. The roaring pack went by at the end of the opening lap in the order Moss, Fangio, Collins, Schell, Brooks, Menditeguy, Hawthorn, von Trips and the rest, and up the hill to the Casino Collins went past Fangio into second place. Lap two saw the order unchanged, but Collins was closing on Moss, and the next lap saw Schell drop back behind von Trips and Brooks in fourth place. As the cars left the tunnel towards the end of the fourth lap Moss was only a few feet ahead of Collins, while Fangio was some way back, followed by Brooks, Hawthorn, von Trips, Schell, Menditeguy, and the others being led by Gould. Juan Manuel Fangio (Maserati 250F), 1st position and Stirling Moss (Vanwall VW3), retired, lead at the start of the 1

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