1956 Formula One season
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The 1956 Formula One season was the tenth season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the seventh World Championship of Drivers, which was contested over eight races between 22 January and 2 S
Juan Manuel Fangio (pictured in 1957) driving for Ferrari won his record-extending fourth Drivers' Championship.
Stirling Moss finished runner-up in the World Championship of Drivers.
Peter Collins finished third in the World Championship of Drivers.
Juan Manuel Fangio
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Juan Manuel Fangio was an Argentine racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1958. Nicknamed "el Chueco" and "el Maestro", Fangio won five Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles
1956 Formula One season
…which was contested over eight races between 22 January and 2 September 1956. The season also included nine non-championship races for Formula One cars. Juan Manuel Fangio driving for Ferrari won his third consecutive championship. It was his fourth in total, a record that would not be beaten until Michael Schumacher in…
Fangio as a child when he took his Roman Catholic First Communion, c. 1920
1950 Simca Gordini T15s, as raced, and retired, at the 1950 24 Hours of Le Mans by José Froilán González and Juan Manuel Fangio
Fangio at the 1954 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring