1954 Pescara Grand Prix

1954 Pescara Grand Prix
Race details
Date	15 August 1954
Official name	XXIII Circuito di Pescara
Location	Pescara Circuit
Course	Temporary road course
Course length	25.60 km (15.96 miles)
Distance	16 laps, 409.60 km (255.36 miles)
Pole position
Driver	Stirling Moss	Maserati
Time	10:23.0
Fastest lap
Driver	B. Bira	Maserati
Time	10:46.39
Podium
First	Luigi Musso	Maserati
Second	B. Bira	Maserati
Third	Harry Schell	Maserati

The 23rd Circuito di Pescara was a Formula One motor race, held on 15 August 1954, at the Pescara Circuit in Abruzzo, Italy. Luigi Musso in a Maserati 250F scored his first Formula 1 victory. B. Bira (Maserati 250F) and Harry Schell (Maserati A6GCM) were second and third, with Bira setting fastest lap. Stirling Moss in yet another 250F started from pole position but retired after 3 laps with a broken oil pipe.^[1][2]

Pos	No	Driver	Entrant	Car	Time/Retired	Grid
1	8	Luigi Musso	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	2:55:54.51, 139.15kph	5
2	20	B. Bira	Prince Bira	Maserati 250F	+2:57.05	9
3	24	Harry Schell	Harry Schell	Maserati A6GCM	+6:48.29	8
4	26	Jorge Daponte	J. Daponte	Maserati A6GCM	+1 lap	12
5	16	Jean Behra	Equipe Gordini	Gordini Type 16	+2 laps	4
6	2	Clemar Bucci	Equipe Gordini	Gordini Type 16	+6 laps	3
Ret		Louis Rosier	Equipe Rosier	Ferrari 500	9 laps	7
Ret	18	Stirling Moss	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	3 laps, oil pipe	1
Ret	14	Berardo Taraschi	B. Taraschi	Ferrari 166	3 laps, mechanical	11
Ret		Jacques Swaters	Ecurie Francorchamps	Ferrari 500	2 laps, mechanical	13
Ret		André Guelfi	Equipe Gordini	Gordini Type 16	1 lap, fire	10
Ret		Robert Manzon	Equipe Rosier	Ferrari 625	1 lap, engine	2
DNS		Umberto Maglioli	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 553		6
DNA		Sergio Mantovani	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F
DNA		Roberto Mieres	R. Mieres	Maserati 250F