Alberto Ascari famously crashed into the Monaco harbour on this day in 1955.
Early race leader Juan Manuel Fangio retired with a bent axle early on, leaving his Mercedes team-mate Stirling Moss to take the lead. But when Moss's engine blew on lap 81, Ascari, who was set to take the lead, was distracted and skidded at the chicane, bounced off a stone wall and plunged through sandbags into the Mediterranean.
He emerged unharmed and swam to safety, leaving Maurice Trintignant's Ferrari to take the lead and the eventual win. Just four days later Ascari, who had emerged from the water with no more than a broken nose, died testing a Ferrari sports car on Monza's high speed banking. On the evening of the Monaco Grand Prix he wondered to Fangio if his star was waning.
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