Autódromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Course
Permanent racing facility
Course length
3.912 km (2.431 miles)
Distance
96 laps, 375.552 km (233.376 miles)
Weather
Very hot and dry
Pole position
Driver
José Froilán González
Ferrari
Time
1:43.1
Fastest lap
Driver
Juan Manuel Fangio
Mercedes
Time
1:48.3 on lap 45[1]
Podium
First
Juan Manuel Fangio
Mercedes
Second
José Froilán González Nino Farina Maurice Trintignant
Ferrari
Third
Nino Farina Maurice Trintignant Umberto Maglioli
Ferrari
Lap leaders
Motor car race
The 1955 Argentine Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Buenos Aires on 16 January 1955. It was race 1 of 7 in the 1955 World Championship of Drivers.
The race was won from third on the grid by Juan Manuel Fangio for Mercedes. Ferrari drivers Nino Farina and Maurice Trintignant finished both second and third in two three-way shared drives with José Froilán González and Umberto Maglioli respectively. The high temperatures of the Argentinian summer proved to be very taxing for both drivers and cars. Fangio and Roberto Mieres were the only two drivers able to complete the race without handing their car to another driver.
According to former Ferrari and Maserati chief mechanic Giulio Borsari, Fangio acclimatized himself by moving to Argentina one month prior to the race and reducing his water consumption to one liter a day to cope with the extreme heat.[2] Fangio also suffered severe burns to his leg which, for the entire duration of the race, was rubbing against the chassis frame which was being heated by the exhaust. It took him 3 months to recover; his next race in Monaco was not until late May. It left a permanent scar on his leg later in life.
^"Argentina 1955 – Best laps". STATS F1. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
^Giulio Borsari and Cesare De Agostini, La Ferrari in tuta, Il Borgo, Bologna, 1980.
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