The 1956 British Grand Prix was Round 6 of the 1956 Formula 1 World Championship. The event was held at Silverstone, United Kingdom on Sunday, 14 July 1956. Stirling Moss started on pole position for Maserati and Juan Manuel Fangio was the race winner for Ferrari.
1956 British Grand Prix Race Result
| Pos. | No. | Driver | Nationality | Team | Tyre | Laps | Time/Retired | Time | Gap | Interval | Best Lap | Lap | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Argentina | Ferrari | Englebert | 101 | 2:59:47.000 | 2:59:47.000 | - | - | 8 | ||
| 2 | 4 | Alfonso de Portago | Spain | Ferrari | Englebert | 100 | +1 lap | 1 lap | 1 lap | 3 | |||
| Peter Collins | Great Britain | 3 | |||||||||||
| 3 | 8 | Jean Behra | France | Maserati | Pirelli | 99 | +2 laps | 2 laps | 1 lap | 4 | |||
| 4 | 21 | Jack Fairman | Great Britain | Connaught Alta | 98 | +3 laps | 3 laps | 1 lap | 3 | ||||
| 5 | 31 | Horace Gould | Great Britain | Maserati | Pirelli | 97 | +4 laps | 4 laps | 1 lap | 2 | |||
| 6 | 11 | Luigi Villoresi | Italy | Maserati | Pirelli | 96 | +5 laps | 5 laps | 1 lap | ||||
| 7 | 9 | Cesare Perdisa | Italy | Maserati | Pirelli | 95 | +6 laps | 6 laps | 1 lap | ||||
| 8 | 10 | Paco Godia | Spain | Maserati | Pirelli | 94 | +7 laps | 7 laps | 1 lap | ||||
| 9 | 15 | Robert Manzon | France | Gordini | 94 | +7 laps | 7 laps | ||||||
| 10 | 3 | Alfonso de Portago | Spain | Ferrari | Englebert | 92 | +9 laps | 9 laps | 2 laps | ||||
| Eugenio Castellotti | Italy | ||||||||||||
| 11 | 26 | Bob Gerard | Great Britain | Cooper Bristol | 88 | +13 laps | 13 laps | 4 laps | |||||
| DNF | 7 | Stirling Moss | Great Britain | Maserati | Pirelli | 94 | DNF | 1:43.200 | 71 | 1 | |||
| DNF | 16 | Harry Schell | United States | Vanwall | 87 | DNF | |||||||
| DNF | 20 | Desmond Titterington | Great Britain | Connaught Alta | 74 | DNF | |||||||
| DNF | 17 | Maurice Trintignant | France | Vanwall | 74 | DNF | |||||||
| DNF | 14 | Nano da Silva Ramos | Brazil | Gordini | 71 | DNF | |||||||
| DNF | 2 | Peter Collins | Great Britain | Ferrari | Englebert | 64 | DNF | ||||||
| DNF | 28 | Roy Salvadori | Great Britain | Maserati | Pirelli | 59 | DNF | ||||||
| DNF | 24 | Tony Brooks | Great Britain | BRM | 39 | DNF | |||||||
| DNF | 23 | Mike Hawthorn | Great Britain | BRM | 24 | DNF | |||||||
| DNF | 27 | Louis Rosier | France | Maserati | Pirelli | 23 | DNF | ||||||
| DNF | 29 | Bruce Halford | Great Britain | Maserati | Pirelli | 22 | DNF | ||||||
| DNF | 12 | Umberto Maglioli | Italy | Maserati | Pirelli | 21 | DNF | ||||||
| DNF | 19 | Archie Scott Brown | Great Britain | Connaught Alta | 16 | DNF | |||||||
| DNF | 32 | Paul Emery | Great Britain | Emeryson Alta | 12 | DNF | |||||||
| DNF | 30 | Jack Brabham | Australia | Maserati | Pirelli | 3 | DNF | ||||||
| DNF | 25 | Ron Flockhart | Great Britain | BRM | 2 | DNF | |||||||
| DNF | 18 | Jose Froilan Gonzalez | Argentina | Vanwall | DNF |