Automobile World Championship 1954
World Champion | |
Driver: | Juan Manuel Fangio |
Season dates | |
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Number of races: | 9 |
<1953 season |
The 1954 Automobile World Championship was the 5th season of the Automobile World Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship . The drivers' world championship was held in the context of nine races from January 17 to October 24, 1954.
The FIA honorary title Grand Prix of Europe was awarded to the Grand Prix of Germany in 1954 .
The year 1954 brought a new set of regulations: After the transition years 1952 and 1953 , in which cars from the former Formula 2 were used, the new Formula 1 came into force with a displacement of 2500 cm³. Alternatively, supercharged engines with 750 cm³ were also permitted, but as in previous years, no team opted for these engines.
The dominant team of the 1930s, Mercedes , returned to the racetracks in the middle of the season, with Juan Manuel Fangio having already secured the best driver of the era. Since this wanted to be world champion, but the Mercedes was not finished until the middle of the season, Fangio contested the first races on Maserati . Karl Kling and Hans Herrmann completed the team.
After Alberto Ascari's departure, Ferrari relied on José Froilán González , Mike Hawthorn and Maurice Trintignant, among others . Ascari and his friend Luigi Villoresi signed with the new Lancia team , but this car wasn't ready until the end of the season. And for the first time there was Onofre Marimón, a dead person to mourn in a Formula 1 world championship run.
Teams and drivers
Race results
GP Argentina - Buenos Aires (January 17, 1954)
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Maserati | 3: 00: 55.8 |
2 | Giuseppe Farina | Ferrari | +1: 19.0 |
3 | José Froilán González | Ferrari | + 2: 01.0 |
4th | Maurice Trintignant | Ferrari | + 1 lap |
5 | Élie Bayol | Gordini | + 2 rounds |
Many teams were not equipped for the first race of the new regulations and used the modified previous year's models. Since Fangio's Maserati team had too many mechanics on duty during a pit stop, the Ferrari team management expected him to be disqualified and signaled to their drivers: “Don't risk anything!”. The protest did not go through in the home country of the world championship favorite and so Fangio won three Ferraris ahead of them.
500 Miles from Indianapolis - Indianapolis (May 31, 1954)
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Bill Vukovich | Kurtis - Offenhauser | 3: 49: 17.27 |
2 | Jimmy Bryan | Kuzma - Offenhauser | +1: 09.95 |
3 | Jack McGrath | Kurtis - Offenhauser | +1: 19.73 |
4th | T. Ruttman / D. Carter | Kurtis - Offenhauser | + 2: 52.68 |
5 | Mike Nazaruk | Kurtis - Offenhauser | + 3: 24.55 |
The "Indy 500" was not a Formula 1 race, but the FIA counted the result as part of the drivers' world championship for a few years. As usual, European teams and drivers did not start, and Indy 500 drivers almost never took part in Formula 1 races.
Bill Vukovich , started from the seventh row, worked his way forward and scored his second Indy win in a row.
Belgian GP - Spa-Francorchamps (June 20, 1954)
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Maserati | 2: 44: 42.4 |
2 | Maurice Trintignant | Ferrari | + 24.2 |
3 | Stirling Moss | Maserati | + 1 lap |
4th | M. Hawthorn / JF González | Ferrari | + 1 lap |
5 | André Pilette | Gordini | + 1 lap |
After Farina and González had engine failures , the race was an easy game for Fangio . Roberto Mieres was lucky , whose Maserati burned out completely on the first lap. He was only slightly injured.
French GP - Reims (4th July 1954)
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Mercedes Benz | 2: 42: 47.9 |
2 | Karl Kling | Mercedes Benz | + 0.1 |
3 | Robert Manzon | Ferrari | + 1 lap |
4th | Prince Bira | Maserati | + 1 lap |
5 | Luigi Villoresi | Maserati | + 3 rounds |
The French Grand Prix brought the long awaited debut of the Mercedes . With their flat and wide design and also full cladding for fast routes, they already looked superior to the rest of the field with narrow, long-legged vehicles. The race ended with a double victory for Fangio ahead of Kling. Newcomer Hans Herrmann also achieved the fastest lap before he retired. Quote Fangio : "On this day we actually only saw the competitors at the start and during lapping maneuvers."
The date of the victory was a historic one: exactly forty years after Christian Friedrich Lautenschlager's victory in a Mercedes in the French Grand Prix in 1914. Shortly after the superior Mercedes double victory, the German national soccer team became world champions at the “ Miracle of Bern ”.
British GP - Silverstone (17th July 1954)
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | José Froilán González | Ferrari | 2: 56: 14.0 |
2 | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | + 1.10.0 |
3 | Onofre Marimón | Maserati | + 1 lap |
4th | Juan Manuel Fangio | Mercedes Benz | + 1 lap |
5 | Maurice Trintignant | Ferrari | + 3 rounds |
Everyone expected another Mercedes victory for the British Grand Prix, but the full fairing proved to be a hindrance on the 4.8-kilometer circuit with eight bends and only short straights. On the track surrounded by straw bales and marked with sand-filled barrels, precisely steerable vehicles with free-standing wheels were an advantage, and so José Froilán González won the race in a Ferrari . Fangio even dented the confusing Mercedes three times and was only fourth. Onofre Marimón achieved an astonishing achievement . Because of the failures of his mechanics, he was unable to train and had to start last. On the first lap he overtook 19 vehicles and finally came in third.
GP Germany - Nürburgring (August 1, 1954)
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Mercedes Benz | 3: 45: 45.8 |
2 | M. Hawthorn / JF González | Ferrari | +1: 36.5 |
3 | Maurice Trintignant | Ferrari | + 5: 08.6 |
4th | Karl Kling | Mercedes Benz | + 6: 06.5 |
5 | Sergio Mantovani | Maserati | + 8: 50.5 |
The Argentine Maserati driver Onofre Marimón had a fatal accident during training ; it was the first death in a Formula 1 world championship run.
After the failure at Silverstone, Mercedes-Benz had supplemented the streamlined bodies with vehicles with free-standing wheels. Despite the grief for his compatriot, Fangio won again and secured the world title early. To the horror of race director Alfred Neubauer, Kling had chased and overtaken Fangio after his car lost gas and had to refuel. "Old star" Hermann Lang , the de facto European champion of the Grand Prix European Championship in 1939 , had his last big appearance; until he retired he was second.
With 3 hours and 45 minutes, this race is, after the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix , (apart from the not comparable Indy races) the second longest Formula 1 world championship run ever.
GP Switzerland - Bremgarten (August 22, 1954)
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Mercedes Benz | 3: 00: 34.5 |
2 | José Froilán González | Ferrari | + 57.8 |
3 | Hans Herrmann | Mercedes Benz | + 1 lap |
4th | Roberto Mières | Maserati | + 2 rounds |
5 | Sergio Mantovani | Maserati | + 2 rounds |
The Swiss GP (the last one in Bremgarten ) brought Fangio a start-to-finish victory . Stirling Moss in the factory Maserati was initially able to keep up with him, which aroused the interest of Mercedes racing director Alfred Neubauer in the British (1955 Moss drove for the Germans). Hans Herrmann achieved his best result with third place.
Italian GP - Monza (September 5, 1954)
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Mercedes Benz | 2: 47: 47.9 |
2 | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | + 1 lap |
3 | JF González / U. Maglioli | Ferrari | + 2 rounds |
4th | Hans Herrmann | Mercedes Benz | + 3 rounds |
5 | Maurice Trintignant | Ferrari | + 5 rounds |
The Italian GP was a varied race in which the Mercedes ( Karl Kling and Juan Manuel Fangio ), the Ferrari Alberto Ascaris , who competed again for his former team, and the Maserati of Stirling Moss took turns at the top. Technical problems of the competition made it easier for Fangio to win.
GP Spain - Pedralbes (October 24, 1954)
space | driver | team | time |
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1 | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | 3: 13: 52.1 |
2 | Luigi Musso | Maserati | +1: 13.2 |
3 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Mercedes Benz | + 1 lap |
4th | Roberto Mieres | Maserati | + 1 lap |
5 | Karl Kling | Mercedes Benz | + 1 lap |
In the meantime, the Lancia team was ready and used its racing cars for the first time. Lancia driver Alberto Ascari set the fastest time in practice and the fastest lap in the race (for which there was an extra point at the time), but retired. Mike Hawthorn in the Ferrari won his second Grand Prix. The Mercedes had collected leaves in the non-grilled radiator shaft, which restricted the intake air supply and led to overheating, so that they could not intervene in the decision.
Driver ranking
The following rules for the distribution of points applied to the 1954 Drivers' World Championship:
1st place | 8 points |
place 2 | 6 points |
place 3 | 4 points |
4th place | 3 points |
5th place | 2 points |
fastest lap | 1 point |
- Only the best five results from the nine races were counted.
- It was allowed to change drivers. If this was done, each driver received half the number of points for the place achieved with the vehicle, regardless of how large his share of the total distance was.
- only the best placing of a driver in a race is listed.
Item | driver | constructor | Points | |||||||||
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1. | Juan Manuel Fangio | Maserati | 1 | 1 | 42 (57.14) | |||||||
Mercedes | 1 | ( 4 ) | 1 | 1 | ( 1 ) | ( 3 ) | ||||||
2. | José Froilán González | Ferrari | 3 | (4) | DNF | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 25.14 (26.64) 1 | ||
3. | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | DSQ | 4th | DNF | 2 | 2 | DNF | 2 | 1 | 24.64 1 | |
4th | Maurice Trintignant | Ferrari | 4th | 2 | DNF | 5 | 3 | DNF | 5 | DNF | 17th | |
5. | Karl Kling | Mercedes | 2 | 7th | 4th | DNF | DNF | 5 | 12 | |||
6th | Bill Vukovich | Kurti's power | 1 | 8th | ||||||||
7th | Hans Herrmann | Mercedes | DNF | DNF | 3 | 4th | DNF | 8th | ||||
8th. | Giuseppe Farina | Ferrari | 2 | DNF | 6th | |||||||
9. | Jimmy Bryan | Kuzma | 2 | 6th | ||||||||
10. | Luigi Musso | Maserati | DNS | DNF | 2 | 6th | ||||||
11. | Roberto Mieres | Maserati | DNF | DNF | DNF | 6th | DNF | 4th | DNF | 4th | 6th | |
12. | Jack McGrath | Kurti's power | 3 | 5 | ||||||||
13. | Onofre Marimón | Maserati | DNF | DNF | DNF | 3 | DNS | 4.14 1 | ||||
14th | Stirling Moss | Maserati | 3 | DNF | DNF | DNF | 10 | DNF | 4.14 1 | |||
15th | Robert Manzon | Ferrari | 3 | DNF | 9 | 7th | DNF | DNF | 4th | |||
16. | Sergio Mantovani | Maserati | 7th | DNS | 5 | 5 | 9 | DNF | 4th | |||
17th | Birabongse Bira | Maserati | 7th | 6th | 4th | DNF | DNF | 9 | 3 | |||
18th | André Pilette | Gordini | 5 | 9 | DNF | 2 | ||||||
19th | Elie Bayol | Gordini | 5 | 2 | ||||||||
20th | Luigi Villoresi | Maserati | 5 | DNF | DNS | DNF | 2 | |||||
Lancia | DNF | |||||||||||
21st | Mike Nazaruk | Kurti's power | 5 | 2 | ||||||||
22nd | Umberto Maglioli | Ferrari | 9 | 7th | 3 | 2 | ||||||
23. | Duane Carter | Kurti's power | 4th | 1.5 | ||||||||
24. | Troy Ruttman | Kurti's power | 4th | 1.5 | ||||||||
25th | Alberto Ascari | Maserati | DNF | DNF | 1.14 1 | |||||||
Ferrari | DNF | |||||||||||
Lancia | DNF | |||||||||||
26th | Jean Behra | Gordini | DSQ | DNF | 6th | DNF | 10 | DNF | DNF | DNF | 0.14 1 | |
- | Harry Schell | Maserati | 6th | DNF | 12 | 7th | DNF | DNF | 0 | |||
- | Fred Agabashian | Kurti's power | 6th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Piero Taruffi | Ferrari | 6th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Ken Wharton | Maserati | DNF | 8th | DNS | 6th | 8th | 0 | ||||
- | Fred Wacker | Gordini | DNF | 6th | 0 | |||||||
- | Francisco Godia-Sales | Maserati | 6th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Don Freeland | Watson | 7th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Paul Brother | Gordini | DNF | 7th | DNF | 0 | ||||||
- | Peter Collins | Vanwall | DNF | 7th | DNS | 0 | ||||||
- | Louis Rosier | Ferrari | DNF | DNF | DNF | 8th | 0 | |||||
Maserati | 8th | 7th | ||||||||||
- | Emmanuel de Graffenried | Maserati | 8th | DNF | DNF | 0 | ||||||
- | Jacques Swaters | Ferrari | DNF | 8th | DNF | 0 | ||||||
- | Larry Crockett | Kurti's power | 9 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Cal Niday | Ansted | 10 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Frederic Roberts-Gerard | cooper | 10 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Andy Linden | Kurti's power | 11 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Art Cross | Kurti's power | 11 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Jim Davies | Kurti's power | 11 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Johnnie Parsons | Kurti's power | 11 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Sam Hanks | Kurti's power | 11 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Don Beauman | Connaught | 11 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Jorge Daponte | Maserati | DNF | 11 | 0 | |||||||
- | Chuck Stevenson | Kuzma | 12 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Walt Faulkner | Kuzma | 12 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Manuel Ayulo | Kuzma | 13 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Leslie Marr | Connaught | 13 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Bob Sweikert | Kurti's power | 14th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Jimmy Jackson | Kurti's power | 15th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Marshall Teague | Kurti's power | 15th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Tony Bettenhausen | Kurti's power | 15th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Ernie McCoy | Kurti's power | 16 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Jimmy Reece | Pan scratch | 17th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Bob Scott | Chapman | 18th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Ed Elisian | Chapman | 18th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Frank Armi | Silnes | 19th | 0 | ||||||||
- | George Fonder | Silnes | 19th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Richard Rathmann | Kurti's power | 20th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Pat O'Connor | Kurti's power | 21st | 0 | ||||||||
- | Eddie Johnson | Pawl | 22nd | 0 | ||||||||
- | Rodger Ward | Pawl | 22nd | 0 | ||||||||
- | Gene Hartley | Kurti's power | 23 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Jimmy Daywalt | Kurti's power | 24 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Johnny Thomson | Nichels | 24 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Jerry Hoyt | Kurti's power | 26th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Paul Russo | Kurti's power | 26th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Bill Holland | Kurti's power | 28 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Pat Flaherty | Kurti's power | 28 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Danny Kladis | Bromme | 30th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Travis Webb | Bromme | 30th | 0 | ||||||||
- | Len Duncan | Schroeder | 31 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Bill Homeier | Nichels | 33 | 0 | ||||||||
- | Horace Gould | cooper | DNC | 0 | ||||||||
- | Leslie Thorne | Connaught | DNC | 0 | ||||||||
- | Clemar Bucci | Gordini | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | 0 | |||||
- | Roy Salvadori | Maserati | DNF | DNF | 0 | |||||||
- | Jacques Pollet | Gordini | DNF | DNF | 0 | |||||||
- | Roger Loyer | Gordini | DNF | 0 | ||||||||
- | Georges Berger | Gordini | DNF | 0 | ||||||||
- | Lance Macklin | HWM | DNF | 0 | ||||||||
- | Eric Brandon | cooper | DNF | 0 | ||||||||
- | John Riseley-Prichard | Connaught | DNF | 0 | ||||||||
- | Peter Whitehead | cooper | DNF | 0 | ||||||||
- | Reg Parnell | Ferrari | DNF | 0 | ||||||||
- | Ron Flockhart | Maserati | DNF | 0 | ||||||||
- | William Whitehouse | Connaught | DNF | 0 | ||||||||
- | Hermann Lang | Mercedes | DNF | 0 | ||||||||
- | Theo Helfrich | Veritas meteor | DNF | 0 | ||||||||
- | Carlos Menditeguy | Maserati | DNS | 0 | ||||||||
- | Alan Brown | cooper | DNS | 0 | ||||||||
- | Giovanni de Riu | Maserati | DNS | 0 | ||||||||
- | Al Herman | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | Billy DeVore | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | Bob Christie | Lesovsky | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | Chuck Weyant | Silnes | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | Cliff Griffith | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | Danny Oakes | Ferrari | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | Duke Dinsmore | Ewing | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | Duke Nalon | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | Eddie Russo | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | Eddie Sachs | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | Frank Mundy | Schroeder | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | George Tichenor | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | Henry Banks | Lesovsky | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | Johnnie Tolan | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | Lee Wallard | Kurti's power | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||
- | Paul Goacher | Moors | DNQ | 0 |
Legend | ||
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colour | abbreviation | meaning |
gold | - | victory |
silver | - | 2nd place |
bronze | - | 3rd place |
green | - | Placement in the points |
blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
NC | not classified | |
red | DNQ | did not qualify |
DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
black | DSQ | disqualified |
White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
WD | withdrawn | |
Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
TD | Friday test driver | |
without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
INJ | injured or sick | |
EX | excluded | |
DNA | did not arrive | |
C. | Race canceled | |
no participation in the World Cup | ||
other | P / bold | Pole position |
SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
* | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
|
() | Streak results | |
underlined | Leader in the overall standings |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner J. Haller, Christian Eichenberger, Leopold Wieland: Major rule changes and their consequences, Motorsport aktuell , issue MSA 4/2014, page 5.