1955 Monaco Grand Prix

The 1955 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monaco on May 22, 1955. The 100-lap race was won by Ferrari driver Maurice Trintignant after he started from ninth position. Eugenio Castellotti finished second for the Lancia team and Maserati drivers Jean Behra and Cesare Perdisa came in third.
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[@paulbroderick8438]

When glamour was, indeed, glamour.

[@Greg-om2hb]

Monaco was so charming then. No high rise buildings. Spectators standing on the sidewalks, just a few feet from the racers. I think I even saw a fishing boat in the harbor. The cars look so slow. But they were going through the hairpin faster than the current cars!

[@thompsongl]

the yachts also got bigger !

[@brandonbentley5453]

I've never been but it's amazing the racing circuit route for the most part hasn't changed...

[@tangerinedream7211]

No hi rise, the old station still there, cars that could actually pass one another on that track, quality, not the money grabbing style of Liberty today, priceless.

[@KitKitChanIsaac]

Real race cars which require actual driver input, unlike the oversízed sim rigs on wheels of today.

[@RichardMcLaren]

High*

[@tsf5-productions]

Now this is a good film! I like the narration style. The various filming locations is great! The 1950's F-1 racing era and cars had famous history.

[@mortimersnerd8044]

The colorization is so poorly done, the Mercedes trucks were light blue, the Maserati transports were bright red. This is easy stuff to research if you're going to colour in a B&W film. So sad to see historic film being vandalized just to make it look pretty to ignorant hipsters.

[@fargeeks]

Where F1s were front engined Gotta give credit F1 /grand prix cars NEVER EVER had headlights of any kind

[@johnreitz5676]

​@@mortimersnerd8044 No one cares old timer.

[@mortimersnerd8044]

@@johnreitz5676 , love the pride you take in your own ignorance 🐮

[@Joe32942]

the city looked so much more authentic and charmic back then. Love it. Thank you for sharing.

[@adambane1719]

*charming

[@hugoagogo9435]

I’m sure life wasn’t really much better then but those videos sure make it look a lot better than today

[@robwilde855]

It bloody well was! I was six years old when this race was run. Since then unimportant things have been improved, and shouted about, with the unthinking masses taken in by it all; and the really important things have been thrown away, carelessly and with great cowardice.

[@skyedog24]

@@robwilde855 very well said I couldn't agree with you more.

[@ERTChimpanzee]

@@robwilde855 No seatbelts in 1955. Seatbelts became popular in the late 60's. Safety has improved a lot.

[@robwilde855]

@@ERTChimpanzee I understand, with great respect, where you're coming from, and ninety-nine percent of the population would agree with your feelings. "Safety has improved a lot" can only be a good thing, surely - a no-brainer? But to me, and that remaining one percent, that sentence actually encapsulates the problem, and it is part of the reason why the general quality of life is going down. Statistics, which can only be applied to a very large number of instances over a period of time, have been taken to be relevant to a person's immediate experience, and furthermore have been legislated into people's lives. To us this is all wrong. A person can decide for themselves whether they are prepared to accept whatever risk is involved in whatever they intend to do. It should be their decision, and no one else's - certainly not the government's. A government can advise but should not take over anyone's personal decisions. One should have the choice whether or not to wear a seatbelt. Most folk would. And they'd feel much better about their decision, because it was THEIR decision, than people feel now strapping on their belts because they might be fined if they don't. Any power or potential given away to authority is a bad thing, and can only - and does - lead to worse.

[@ronfox5519]

​@ERTChimpanzee Yes safety has improved in so many ways, and it is a good thing. That said, the guys did drive a lot more aggressively as safety features were added, and a lot of beauty was lost in the process. A net gain, but nothing is free.

[@SkarTisu]

You can just hear the effect of the non-filtered Lucky Strikes on the commentator’s voice

[@klingonradar]

Hans Herrmann is still alive as of today. His place of birth still listed as "Weimar Republic"

[@Loulovesspeed]

@klingonradar - I have a beautiful 1:18 diecast model of his Mercedes W196 Streamliner. It is a numbered edition signed by him across the hood. A beautiful racing machine! The model is made by CMC Models of Fellbach, Germany.

[@musicstewart9744]

Real interesting life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Herrmann

[@Stevesolo1950]

Love the Lancia Aurelia B24 Spider Prince Rainier was driving.

[@carlobrotto7132]

You've got excellent taste, mythic car, I love it too

[@porker964c2]

great footage, no cheese just excellent commentating and camera work, more please

[@ronfox5519]

Yes. Very well done.

[@simonjackson7269]

A week later Ascari was killed testing at Monza.😢😢

[@dennisesplin3285]

Great Lancias. Stirling crash looked bad. Merc transporter wonderful. Great footage. Great cars. Great drivers. Great venue. Sunshine.

[@charlessantos866]

Wasn't it Hans Herrmann?

[@dennisesplin3285]

@@charlessantos866 Hand Herman. That sounds right. Many other forgotten drivers.

[@heredownunder]

Nothing left to do but fish for Ascari’s car! Commentator has wit.

[@haroldrupert4957]

Thanks for sharing this great footage .Lovely old memories .

[@Loulovesspeed]

Commentator is likely American as I think Americans, at least in the 1950s, pronounced it Mo-'naco rather than the correct pronunciation of 'Mon-aco. You don't want to know how we pronounced Le Mans! Lol Fantastic footage here, just too bad the audio of the time lacked the ability to capture a more true sound of these fantastic race engines, particularly the Mercedes W196 - as the commentator pointed out!

[@CorCor-mq8vm]

Lemons

[@Loulovesspeed]

@@CorCor-mq8vm - Pretty close! I think many Americans used to have a tough time with the French language, as well as the French themselves at times! Lol

[@maxmulsanne7054]

​@@CorCor-mq8vm Yes we have that too. The prestigious _'24 Hours of Lemons'_ - where $500 cars compete for the glory of victory.

[@martinzaehringer1697]

Glorious cars

[@yuglesstube]

Golden age

[@vanthspiritwalker]

I am very confused: at min 5:06 they comment on the arrival of Prince Ranieri "accompanied by the sounding of the anthem of Monaco", but what we can hear is clearly Fratelli d'Italia, the Italian national anthem...

[@DanArnets1492]

Most/All sound was recorded after the fact, engine sounds are mostly fake

[@martinzaehringer1697]

I had to look up Bella Darvi. It's a sad story. She was a Polish Jew whose family moved to France. During the war, her brother died in a concentration camp. She was imprisoned by the Vichy government but later released and moved to the south of France. After the war she was befriended by the Mr and Mrs Derryl Zanuck and moved to Los Angeles where she began an acting career. She was suicidal and eventually killed herself in Monte Carlo in 1971,

[@polcommwatcher]

Wonderful footage. Very glad that vintage motorsport film keeps turning up on YT. I'd never heard of Bella Darvi. Quite a life, per wiki. Ended sadly and early, as did too many of the drivers' lives during this era. A glamorous life was real, I guess, if that person enjoyed the glamorous part. Now it's an illusion at sunny Monte Carlo, with the commentator alluding to Darvi's doggy running amuck at an earlier racing event. Too bad no film of the loose pooch.

[@Davyfb75]

She was a Starlet known for this sort of thing rather than acting.

[@fvingerhoed]

These days are gone. Looking back the days of Ecclestone were the last good F1 years. Now it's being turned into a money grab circus.

[@RichardMcLaren]

😴

[@Davyfb75]

It was Ecclestone that ruined it.

[@danuneken]

Great video. Interesting to see that, according to the English captions, Spongebob was also participating!!

[@williambarry8015]

Jay Leno has one of those Mercedes Benz racecar haulers.

[@yellowquantum4240]

Fangio, Ascari what times!! 😮

[@professorwiggins3290]

"Dumped him into the bay." Of course, given the callousness of the post- war era, not a word about whether the former leader was presently floating face down in that bay, headed to the hospital maimed for life, or having a shaky scotch-and-soda back in the pits.

[@MBJanus]

Dans son livre, Trintignant dit qu'à la fin de la course il avait le creux de la main en sang tellement il fallait changer de vitesse.

[@cheeseburgeralltopings7583]

Now that was an era of class and chic, not a world of sports car chasers with mobiles and tiktokers, check out the way women and men dressed

[@me89360]

5:00 "The arrival of the prince is accompanied by playing the national anthem of Monaco" *Plays Italian National Anthem*

[@arturotorres6647]

Padrisimos recuerdos!!👏👏

[@emanuell5926]

Ah, so beautiful

[@michaellinner7772]

This is a reminder that F1 was a seriously dangerous sport back then. By the end of the season wasn't uncommon for the teams to be looking for at least a couple of new drivers due to the deaths of the drivers during the season.

[@hugejohnson5011]

The money there in that one little patch of Earth is astounding!

[@sergioalbertoli4809]

Una joya este film increíble

[@abgekippt]

4:58 It's the national anthem of Italy not Monaco.

[@adambane1719]

No its Monaco !!!!

[@wraitheful]

@@adambane1719you mean M’naco?

[@4Kandlez]

@@adambane1719 You are wrong

[@carlobrotto7132]

It's the Italian anthem .

[@amelierenoncule]

The Yankee Hudson's were not there, that year, mes amis.

[@chiriladorin-alexandru2776]

68 years ago.

[@Davyfb75]

Poor Ascari he died the next week testing at Monza.

[@richardmccaughey5928]

Who the hell is Bella Darvi? I've been following F1 since the '50's and I've never heard of her. P. S. It's interesting to see Monaco without all the high-rises!

[@Hithere-ek4qt]

She was an aspiring actress, probably trying to sleep her way to the top. I believe she was Darrell Zannuks project. She had a bit of success with second rate movies in Europe and America. Must’ve had a sad life though, after a few attempts at suicide she finally was successful in Monaco in 1971

[@Hithere-ek4qt]

The filmmaker was probably pressured into having some footage of her for publicity

[@williamrae9954]

Type of car that should only race at Monaco...F1 outgrew that place decades ago!

[@LRSNRCNG309]

They outgrew monaco even in this time 😂

[@oldwobble916]

Even those days it was rather silly to have an F1 race in that city.

[@slackdaddy1912]

Talk about racing dangerous cars……throwing caution in the wind……they were very brave and dedicated drivers.

[@terryjacob8169]

Proper racing drivers, proper men. So unlike today's overpaid prima donnas.

[@ClubMicrobio]

I can't see any race, i drive that way everyday in my daily way to work.

[@adambane1719]

Uh, tough guy, huh !? Why don't you take a long walk off a short pier, pal !?

[@leejcobb8009]

@@adambane1719 Said the little girly man 🧚 Trolling on his Mommy's computer! 😆😅😂🤣

[@randrianabel]

The all very first french pilot victory in Formula one.

[@Davyfb75]

The Lancia soon to be the new Ferrari

[@eric7922]

...and I remember Pietro Lonetti too...

[@chumleyk]

Someone needs to AI upscale this. Just make sure it doesn't add roll hoops, full-face helmets, fire suits, and seat belts with its risk-averse imagination. They don't look that fast, but they were essentially 4 wheel motor bikes with all the associated lack of safety. The drivers actually refused safety harnesses because they preferred to be thrown free rather than trapped in the car. but when speeds increased in future years............

[@pascalkal792]

Fangio 💪!!

[@gregtaylor6146]

How lovely to see a European country .......... full of Europeans?

[@deetee6339]

1955 - Onassis the Ship Builder. Put a pin in that will you please?

[@RIPPERTON]

1:15 Not many Millionaires around in those days.

[@buckfaststradler4629]

Monaco much nicer back then when rich people had some class.

[@johnandrews3568]

odd pronunciation of Monaco.

[@Loulovesspeed]

@johnandrews3568 - Just a typical American mispronunciation of the name. You should hear how they tried to pronounce Le Mans then.

[@maxwellspeedwell2585]

Mrs. Fangio?????

[@douglasdixon524]

7:53, What a cool shot. A lone race car with boats and blue water to the right.

[@cleokey]

Terrific race back then, disappointing today, no passing. Perhaps this event will get pulled from the current points chase.

[@NicoleSatchell-k8b]

A week later Ascari was killed testing at Monza.. Ah, so beautiful.

[@BoudewijnvanHouten]

Was this the last race won by Ferrari?

[@daz4627]

OUCH!!!!

[@carlobrotto7132]

Nope, the last was when Ferrari still had an inch of Italian ability inside its racing team and was not all upon foreign crap, which was way before an austrian energetic drink managed to get into F1 and to acquire former engineers & mechanics from Ferrari ...!

[@mariateresaordenes3340]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@fragdude]

I’m going to start pronouncing Monaco this way now

[@heinz812]

Straw bales, cigarettes, and a white T-shirt for a racing suit!

[@terrybrown4400]

That’s some waist on Bella Darvi😃

[@marciocarvalho8975]

Others fall into the mediterranean

[@adambane1719]

Shumacher won !!!!

[@Loulovesspeed]

Not hardly as he wasn't even born for another 14 years! LOL

[@KitKitChanIsaac]

Bro won before he was born💀

[@RichardMcLaren]

And Ocon got a penalty

[@RichardMcLaren]

Lmao Dumb asses don't understand humour

[@igaroot]

Bruce brown vibes

[@wraitheful]

Spectacular footage; unbearable commentary. “M’naco”? Really?

[@islandaerial3414]

👍

[@charleslecki3609]

Men-knock-o

[@donleblanc2669]

Like ALL CLASSIC F1 TRACKS .... MONACO has been butchered !!!

[@chancevonfreund9145]

The harbor looks much different today with all the multi-million dollar yachts anchored. 🛳️

[@adambane1719]

Did you not see all the multi-million dollar yachts anchored there in this video? ...or do you just choose to be offended anyways?? I'm genuinely curious.

[@chancevonfreund9145]

@@adambane1719 What? Holly cow who said im offended! There is a heck of a lot more Multi-million Yachts today than back then! Take your Prozac and Stop trolling.

[@vancestalworth5652]

​@@adambane1719 Did your Transition surgery fail! Troll 😆😅😂