This could be the first lap of the first start of the Grand Prix.  At the green flag Daigh, who'd qualified 2nd at 2:07.2, blasted into the lead in John Edgar's Maserati #4506.  The red #98 had been re-powered with a larger Maserati engine originally built for speedboat racing.  Ruby followed in his conventional 4.5 liter 450S.  Top qualifier Richie Ginther ran third until the main straight, where the 412 MI's 4-cam V12 out-gunned even these 4-cam V8 Maseratis: the Ferrari shot into the lead: briefly...

The leaders encountered waving yellow flags in Turn 9.  Then the red flag.  The race had been stopped after one lap.

4th place qualifier Dan Gurney in Frank Arciero's Ferrari 4.9 had stalled at the start.  Mid-pack runner Jack Graham was unable to avoid the stopped Ferrari and rammed Gurney's car with his Chevy-powered Aston Martin.  Graham's car then hit Indy-winner Rodger Ward's 4.4 liter Ferrari 121 LM.  Gurney and Graham suffered minor injuries, Ward was unhurt.  All three of the cars involved were out of the race.

Then the restart...

Ginther took the lead in the 412 MI, then Moss in the Aston Martin, then Ruby, then eventual winner Phil Hill in the 3-liter Ferrari Testa Rossa.  Daigh was penalized a lap for working on his car during the red-flag period, but that effort did him no good:  the big-engined Maserati went out immediately with a "split rear-end".

Ginther led easily for 35 laps, but then the Ferrari lost oil pressure and he dropped out.  Hill motored on to an easy victory.

Historical research:  MotoRacing:  Volume #4 #25.

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