Maurice Trintignant (and Stirling Moss)

This is another of my brother's Kodak Brownie 127 photographs from practice day at the 1956 British Grand Prix at Silverstone in July 1956.

It's the French driver Maurice Trintignant who drove a Vanwall in the race, and Stirling Moss who drove one of the eleven Maserati 250F's. Neither finished the race, Trintignant retiring with fuel line problems and Moss with transmission failure. Maurice Trintignant had a lengthy career in racing, from 1938 to 1965, his best seasons in the World Drivers' Championship being 1954 and 1955 when he finished in fourth position, and he won the Monaco Grand Prix on two occasions. In 1955 he drove an outdated Ferrari 625 to victory after the Mercedes-Benz W196 cars of Juan Fangio and Stirling Moss had suffered mechanical problems and Alberto Ascari had crashed his Lancia D50 into the harbour. In 1958 he won in Rob Walker's 2-litre rear-engined Cooper Climax, beating the Ferrari 246 Dinos of Luigi Musso and Peter Collins into second and third places. Only six cars finished the race. Maurice Trintignant also drove in the World Sportscar Championship for many years, competing regularly in the Le Mans 24 Hour race for Ferrari and Aston Martin amongst others, and winning it in a Ferrari 375 Plus with Froilán González in 1954.