Juan Manuel Fangio started the race with the Ferrari D50 number 22 but finished 2nd with the Number 26 in one of the greatest stories of F1.

Fangio broken steering arm in lqap 35. Luigi Musso, also driving for Ferrari, was told to hand his car over to Fangio to ensure the Argentine's third consecutive title but he refused. Peter Collins, with the opportunity for his first world championship, sportingly handed his car over to Fangio during a routine pit-stop. Fangio finished second, behind Stirling Moss, giving himself and Collins a share of the points for second place and ensuring his fourth title.It was a magnanimous gesture, of the highest order of sportsmanship and one that, sadly, would be completely out of place in the cut-throat world of modern-day Formula One

Collins’s the man

“After that I finished second to Moss, but it was enough, thanks to Collins and his English sense of sportsmanship. I don’t know if I would have done the same,” he conceded. “Collins was a complete gentleman.” After the race, Collins reasoned that he just simply enjoyed driving a racing car on the limit and that, at 25 years of age, he wasn’t ready to cope with the demands that go along with being a world champion.

“All I could think of out there was that if I won the race and the championship I would become an instant celebrity. I would have a position to live up to. People would make demands of me. I would be expected at all times to act like ‘The Champion.’“Driving would not be fun anymore. I wanted things to go on just as they were, so I handed my car over to Fangio. I would not have been proud of beating him through his bad luck. I am only 25 years old and have plenty of time to win the championship on my own.” But it was not to be. Two years later, Collins would be tragically killed as he hunted down Tony Brooks’ Vanwallfor the lead at the fearsome Nurburgring. He had won three Grands Prix from 32 starts at the time of his death. But he never won the world championship.