Website visitor Bob Lang contributed this photo, far better than the blurry one of my own posted here before.  Thanks Bob!

Rob Hall of Sleaford, UK, finished 10th against a field composed mostly of far more modern mid-engined cars.

Lancia campaigned the 2484cc. V8 D-50 in 1955.  The cars showed promise as a possible threat to Mercedes-Benz's dominance of F1 with the W196.  But the small Italian company lacked the resources to compete on this level and almost bankrupted itself in the effort.  For 1956 Lancia simply turned their whole F1 operation over to Ferrari.  The 1956 cars, known as Lancia-Ferraris, were extensively re-engineered and Juan Manuel Fangio won that year's World Championship driving them.