Fangio's 1956 championship was his fourth title, a record unsurpassed until Michael Schumacher in 2002.
Key Facts
- Championship races
- 8 races, 22 Jan – 2 Sep 1956
- Champion
- Juan Manuel Fangio (Ferrari)
- Fangio's total titles
- 4 (record until Schumacher 2002)
- Non-championship races
- 9
- Season number
- 10th FIA Formula One season
By the Numbers
Cause → Event → Consequence
Following back-to-back championships in 1954 and 1955, Juan Manuel Fangio joined Ferrari for the 1956 season, where he faced competition from teammate Peter Collins and Maserati's Stirling Moss in a fiercely contested eight-race championship.
The 1956 Formula One World Championship of Drivers ran across eight rounds between January and September. Fangio drove for Ferrari and secured his third consecutive and fourth overall Drivers' Championship, with Collins and Moss as his chief rivals. No British constructor won a championship race.
Fangio's fourth title set a record that stood for 46 years until Michael Schumacher surpassed it in 2002. The season also saw the death of veteran racer Louis Rosier, who sustained fatal head injuries in a sports car race at Montlhéry on 29 October 1956.