Juan Fangio vs Peter Collins, 1956
Teammates at Ferrari — the same car, so these numbers compare the drivers rather than the machinery. Compare full careers →
In the 1956 season, Juan Fangio and Peter Collins competed as teammates at Ferrari across 7 races. Fangio outqualified Collins 5 times and won 3 Grands Prix, while Collins secured 2 victories. Both drivers finished on the podium 5 times, but Fangio earned 34.5 championship points compared to Collins' 25, with both drivers achieving their best finish in 1st place. They had 2 races where their results could be directly compared.
Summarised by gpt-4o-mini from the figures below.5–0Qualifyingof 5 compared
1–1Race finishesof 2 compared
Qualifying is compared on the grid they actually started from. A race counts only where both were classified — one of them retiring leaves nothing to compare, so it is not scored to the other.
1956 season
77
34.525
32
55
P1P1
3.46.4
1.81.6
12