Mercedes, a German constructor, competed in the 1955 Formula 1 season with Juan Fangio and Stirling Moss. Karl Kling, Piero Taruffi, Hans Herrmann and André Simon also raced for the team.
Mercedes won 5 Grands Prix, the last of them the Italian Grand Prix, and scored 4 one-two finishes.
Final 1955 results after 7 rounds. Data: Jolpica F1 API.
Share of the team's points (race and sprint).
Race and sprint points per round, stacked by driver (Fangio, Moss, Taruffi, Kling, Herrmann, Simon: darker to lighter).
Shared Grand Prix only. Qualifying uses the qualifying classification.
6 shared GPs
Both cars, every round. S = sprint result.
Short answers about Mercedes in 1955.
Juan Fangio and Stirling Moss drove for Mercedes in the 1955 Formula 1 season. Karl Kling, Piero Taruffi, Hans Herrmann and André Simon also raced for the team.
Mercedes won 5 of 6 Grands Prix in 1955, with 10 podium finishes and 4 one-twos.
Mercedes first raced in Formula 1 in 1954 and 1955, when Juan Manuel Fangio won the title in both seasons, mostly at the wheel of its cars. The current works team, based in Brackley, began as British American Racing in 1999, became Honda and then Brawn GP, which won both championships in 2009, before Mercedes bought it for 2010. From 2014 to 2021 it won eight consecutive constructors’ titles, with Lewis Hamilton taking six drivers’ crowns and Nico Rosberg one.
Mercedes builds its own power units at Brixworth and supplies McLaren, Williams and Alpine. Toto Wolff has led the team since 2013. Its 2026 drivers are George Russell and Kimi Antonelli, who claimed his first Grand Prix win in China early in the season.
5 shared GPs
5 shared GPs
2 shared GPs
2 shared GPs
2 shared GPs
1 shared GPs
1 shared GPs
1 shared GPs
1 shared GPs
1 shared GPs
| Kling |
|---|
| Herrmann |
|---|
| Simon |
|---|
| Pts |
|---|
| 1 |  Argentine Grand Prix | P1 | P4 | – | P4 | P4 | – | 12 |
| 2 |  Monaco Grand Prix | DNF | P9 | – | ||||
| 4 |  Belgian Grand Prix | P1 | P2 | – | ||||
| 5 |  Dutch Grand Prix | P1 | P2 | – | ||||
| 6 |  British Grand Prix | P2 | P1 | P4 | ||||
| 7 |  Italian Grand Prix | P1 | DNF | P2 |
| – |
| DNF |
1 |
| – |
| – |
15 |
| – |
| – |
14 |
| P3 |
| – |
| – |
22 |
| DNF |
| – |
| – |
15 |
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