It was a fantastic balcony right at the rounded corner of the avenue on which the track arrives at Ste Devote and the street that arrives there. Catering inside of course. I recall a few things; despite the massive rain a gutsy pilot with a biplane did an exhibition above the harbor before the race. The owner of the BMW company, Mr Quandt and his wife were on the balcony. His wife put her umbrella through the railing from the outside, to protect from windy rain, holding it from her seat. The marshalls below saw that, this was just above the track, and they shouted at her to remove it in case it blew on track. She was not used to being ordered around and ignored them so we explained to her she had no choice lest there be trouble with MC police. Then when Ickx abruptly stopped the race a huge percentage of the crowd including me walked at the same time to the tiny old train station, the huge underground one did not exist yet. It was so packed in there that you could lift up your feet and not fall, scary, they were lucky that there were no injuries or casualties as happens when crowd pressure is out of control in tight spots.
The huge underground Monaco train station, which was Prince Rainier III's last major project before he passed in 2005, was inaugurated in 1999. It is about 100 times larger than the tiny outdoor station that preceded it (and was then demolished). There are long corridors with escalators, rolling walkways, lifts, a real molehill. All of Monaco is like a Swiss cheese with countless tunnels, very deep underground parking lots.
Same car, same location, but date is 4 July 1956. Dan Collins DNS. Marcel Massini Image Unavailable, Please Login
In the race prior (Kansas City in April 29th 1956), organizers warned Collins not to use cardboard under the wheels to attain a quick start off the grid. They believed it was not fair to the other racers. He then, being innovative, poured water under the rear tires, - a trick 'he said' replaced the usual pieces of cardboard. Got to give the guy 10/10 for ingenuity.
Nice image of the grid for the first heat of the formula 2 race at Monza, 13 May 1951. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Great photo, thank you for posting but I have doubts about that being Monza. Where is the end of the banking which should be visible in in the distance? The background seems too empty, too bare... could it be a mislabeled photo? Orrrr....it could be that that race had its grid and start somewhere else on the circuit, the curve at the far end of the photo looks like the exit of Lesmo 2...
My mistake, I thought it was made earlier. Walking on and near it almost twenty years ago filled me with awe, you can really feel the history....
Here a photo of the banking under construction and one of it later, in the sixties. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Image Unavailable, Please Login My small little memory from 2004 (OK, a little off-tpic here...)! Photo © Walter Bäumer, 2025
Long facebook thread loaded with photos' mainly from down under. But a lot of Maserati factory shots. 0462MD at Bathurst. Facebook Image Unavailable, Please Login
1957 and 1958 there was Indianapolis 500 at the Monza Circuit. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
You can see the old track going off to the right of the banking, to two right-angle corners called Curva Sud which were cobbled; when the banking was built the track was shortened at the south end and the Parabolica was built. Paul M
https://f1.fandom.com/wiki/Autodromo_Nazionale_Monza?file=Monza_c7e6662367ee01e94ea03b10bb26b179.jpg The old course is clear, with the Vedano turns which gave a longer run to the finish line. Paul M
There are really nice articles on Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennen_der_zwei_Welten with liks to a you tube film in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_of_Two_Worlds ( not so detailed as the German Wikipedia ) Ferrari finished on third place with Mike Hawthorn and Phil Hill
Some other thumbnail shots of the car. It was also at Bathurst in 1956 and 1960. Image Unavailable, Please Login
