re: 2023 Formula 1 season Thread

color highlights of 1955 Monaco GP featuring the Mercedes of Fangio and Moss.

Fangio led half the race until his car died but moss was faster in 2nd. Fangio was the same age as Alonso but looked like a retired plumber walking around in the pits

This was also Alberto Ascaris last race but he made it memorable by blasting through the chicane and into the Med while leading. He would die 3 days later at Monza at the age of 36.

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On 26 May, he went to Monza to watch his friend Eugenio Castellotti test a Ferrari 750 Monza sports car. They were to co-drive the car in the 1000 km Monza race, having been given special dispensation by Lancia. Ascari was not supposed to drive that day but decided to try a few laps. In his jacket and tie, shirt sleeves, ordinary trousers and Castellotti's white helmet he set off.[3][4][17] As he emerged from a fast curve on the third lap the car inexplicably skidded, turned on its nose and somersaulted twice. Thrown out onto the track, Ascari suffered multiple injuries and died a few minutes later.[3][4][26] The crash occurred on the Curva del Vialone, one of the track's challenging high-speed corners. The corner where the accident happened, renamed in his honour, has been subsequently replaced with a chicane, now called Variante Ascari.[26]

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Teams were not limited to two cars until the mid 80s. Crazy seeing Lancia and Ferrari with so many cars on the grid