Formula 1 pictures of 1955 (+Indy500)

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Wookey wrote:XIII Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco
Ensoleillé
22 mai 1955 - Monaco
100 tours x 3.145 km - 314.500 km
(également Grand Prix d'Europe)

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I do not think it André Simon. In my opinion is the ing Rudolf Uhlenhaut.

Why? The helmet is very similar to the Simon's helmet.

Well, it's hard to know because both wore white helmets, but Uhlenhaut had a black band under the helmet:
In these 3 pictures I think is Uhlenhaut who drives:
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Perhaps, in the photo that you quote, I may be wrong. Are you sure it's Simon?

No, I'm not sure. From this view, it is very difficult to recognize, but I think that this helmet looks a little different.
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Wookey wrote:30 janvier 1955 - Buenos Aires
60 tours x 4,705 km = 282,300 km

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Is it really the Buenos Aires GP? Compared to these pictures:

Wookey wrote:42e Grand Prix
III Gran Premio de la Republica Argentina
Ensoleillé
16 janvier 1955 - Buenos Aires

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Looks like the same session: the same style of the starting number, cars without rear-view mirrors.

Elie Bayol

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Argentine GP

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I found this picture described as the Argentine GP, but it's raining. So I think, it's the Buenos Aires GP.

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Wookey wrote:30 janvier 1955 - Buenos Aires
60 tours x 4,705 km = 282,300 km

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Is it really the Buenos Aires GP? Compared to these pictures:

Wookey wrote:42e Grand Prix
III Gran Premio de la Republica Argentina
Ensoleillé
16 janvier 1955 - Buenos Aires

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Looks like the same session: the same style of the starting number, cars without rear-view mirrors.

All these images are from the first practice session of the GP of Argentina, thursday I think.
Later, the numbers on the left side were eliminated, and Gonzalez made blue and yellow paint his car.

Thunder wrote:Elie Bayol

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Argentine GP

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I found this picture described as the Argentine GP, but it's raining. So I think, it's the Buenos Aires GP.

The first photo, color, perhaps is the first day of practice GP Argentina. Bayol is in the same place as the Ferrari in the previous post.
The second is certainly GP Buenos Aires, when it rained in practice.

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Wookey wrote:XIII Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco
Ensoleillé
22 mai 1955 - Monaco
100 tours x 3.145 km - 314.500 km
(également Grand Prix d'Europe)

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I do not think it André Simon. In my opinion is the ing Rudolf Uhlenhaut.

Why? The helmet is very similar to the Simon's helmet.

Well, it's hard to know because both wore white helmets, but Uhlenhaut had a black band under the helmet:
In these 3 pictures I think is Uhlenhaut who drives:
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Perhaps, in the photo that you quote, I may be wrong. Are you sure it's Simon?

No, I'm not sure. From this view, it is very difficult to recognize, but I think that this helmet looks a little different.
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Looking better, I think I was wrong and you're right, and the picture is André Simon. There is one detail more important than the helmet, I mean the French flag painted just behind the cockpit. During practice, including driving Simon, none of the four Mercedes was painted flags on the body.
Thank you for your good eye

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Wookey wrote:XIII Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco
Ensoleillé
22 mai 1955 - Monaco
100 tours x 3.145 km - 314.500 km
(également Grand Prix d'Europe)

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I do not think it André Simon. In my opinion is the ing Rudolf Uhlenhaut.

Why? The helmet is very similar to the Simon's helmet.

Well, it's hard to know because both wore white helmets, but Uhlenhaut had a black band under the helmet:
In these 3 pictures I think is Uhlenhaut who drives:
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Perhaps, in the photo that you quote, I may be wrong. Are you sure it's Simon?

No, I'm not sure. From this view, it is very difficult to recognize, but I think that this helmet looks a little different.


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Looking better, I think I was wrong and you're right, and the picture is André Simon. There is one detail more important than the helmet, I mean the French flag painted just behind the cockpit. During practice, including driving Simon, none of the four Mercedes was painted flags on the body.
Thank you for your good eye

More over, there are too many spectators for practice session.

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Wookey wrote:XIII Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco
Ensoleillé
22 mai 1955 - Monaco
100 tours x 3.145 km - 314.500 km
(également Grand Prix d'Europe)

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I do not think it André Simon. In my opinion is the ing Rudolf Uhlenhaut.

Why? The helmet is very similar to the Simon's helmet.

Well, it's hard to know because both wore white helmets, but Uhlenhaut had a black band under the helmet:
In these 3 pictures I think is Uhlenhaut who drives:
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Perhaps, in the photo that you quote, I may be wrong. Are you sure it's Simon?

Well my friends, we are all wrong and I the most. The helmet is very possible that belongs to Rudolf Uhlenhaut but the driver, at least in the car #2, is Fangio.    
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Argentina

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#8 Moss (totaly exhausted after he finished the Race)

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