1958 Dutch Grand Prix

 1958 Dutch Grand Prix

Racing data
3rd of 11 races in the 1958 World Automobile Championship
Surname:	VII Grote Prijs van Nederland
Date:	May 26, 1958
Place:	Zandvoort , the Netherlands
Course:	Circuit Park Zandvoort
Length:	314.475 km in 75 laps of 4.193 km
Weather:	sunny, dry
Pole position
Driver:	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall
Time:	1: 37.1 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Stirling Moss	Vanwall
Time:	1: 37.6 min
Podium
First:	Stirling Moss	Vanwall
Second:	Harry Schell	BRM
Third:	Jean Behra	BRM

The 1958 Dutch Grand Prix took place on May 26, 1958 at Circuit Park Zandvoort near Zandvoort and was the third race of the 1958 World Cup .

Reports

background

Porsche 718 in the Leidschendam museum

The Dutch Grand Prix took place again after two years, and no former winners entered the race. The 1955 Dutch Grand Prix was won by Juan Manuel Fangio , but he continued to pause and had only taken part in a race in the 1958 Formula 1 season.

The British teams Vanwall , Cooper , BRM and Lotus competed with unchanged driver pairings. The Rob Walker Racing Team , which won the first two races of the season, also started again with a car for Maurice Trintignant . Ferrari reduced the number of cars used to three and drove with Mike Hawthorn , Luigi Musso and Peter Collins , which caused Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips to pause again. With Giorgio Scarlatti , Jo Bonnier , Masten Gregory and Horace Gould , four drivers entered the race with private Maserati 250Fs , with Gregory taking over Gould's car after practice.

Carel Godin de Beaufort started for the first time in Formula 1 with a private Porsche 718 , after taking part in the 1958 German Grand Prix as part of the Formula 2 race for Porsche . Together with the Cooper T45 , two different cars with rear engines competed in the race.

In the drivers' standings, Musso was four points ahead of Stirling Moss and Trintignant, who each won a race. Cooper led the constructors' championship, four points ahead of Ferrari.

training

Training for the 1958 Dutch Grand Prix was dominated by Vanwall, who again qualified all three cars on the first three starting positions. Stuart Lewis-Evans was a little less than a second ahead of Stirling Moss , who was just ahead of Tony Brooks . For Lewis-Evans it was the second and last pole position of his career, he died at the end of the season from the consequences of the severe burn injuries he sustained in an accident at the 1958 Grand Prix of Morocco .

Behind the Vanwall, Jean Behra also qualified for the front row in the BRM, he was only three tenths of a second short of Brooks' time. Jack Brabham placed fifth in the Cooper, also just behind Behra in the time class, which meant that a three-way battle between Vanwall, Cooper and BRM was to be expected for the race.

Hawthorn qualified as the best Ferrari driver in sixth, his teammates started from tenth and twelfth. Harry Schell in the second BRM finished seventh ahead of the winner of the previous race, Trintignant. Roy Salvadori in the second Cooper completed the top ten.

Lotus, who were only taking part in their second race, started from eleventh and thirteenth place, and Cliff Allison was again faster than Graham Hill . Gregory took over Gould's car in practice and was the best-placed driver, the one with private cars in 14th position, while Beaufort's Porsche was not competitive and Beaufort only qualified on the last grid position on the grid.

run

Moss took the lead of the race right from the start, Lewis-Evans positioned himself in second place behind Moss. Schell, who started from seventh place, made up most of the positions at the start and moved up to third. Brooks car was hit in the rear area by another car, so he was forced to pit a few laps later for repairs, but on lap 13 Brooks was eliminated with a broken half-wave. Salvadori inherited fourth place in the Cooper. The second retirement of the race followed on lap 16, Gregory parked his Maserati with a defective fuel pump.

On the twelfth lap of the race, Schell overtook Lewis-Evans and brought the BRM to second place, but Moss had extended his lead to such an extent that he could no longer be overtaken by the end of the race. Behind Lewis-Evans, Schell's team-mate Behra first overtook Hawthorn in the Ferrari and then Savadori. The Ferrari was not competitive compared to the British competition at the 1958 Dutch Grand Prix, Hawthorn only held fifth, while his team-mate Collins was eliminated on lap 32 with a gearbox failure. On lap 41, Hill also retired in his second race because his car overheated, Lewis-Evans followed four laps later with an engine failure, causing Behra to take third place. Vanwall thus continued the high failure rate of his cars, but Moss was spared technical defects in this race. Another retirement occurred on lap 50, Scarlatti also parked his Maserati with a broken half-wave.

Moss won his second race of the season, for Vanwall it was the first victory in the Formula 1 season, since Moss won the opening race on Cooper. With second place from Schell and third place from Behra, BRM achieved the best racing result in their history to date, but for both drivers it was the last podium finish of their Formula 1 careers. Salvadori crossed the finish line in fourth place, scoring more points for Cooper, the only non-British car in the points was Hawthorn in a Ferrari in fifth. Moss received the point for the fastest race lap.

Since the leader in the drivers 'standings, Musso, only finished seventh behind Allison in the Lotus and thus did not score any points, Moss took the lead in the drivers' standings with a five-point lead. After the race, Schell was fourth with the same number of points as third-placed Trintignant. In the constructors' championship, Cooper increased his lead over Ferrari by one point to five points, Vanwall scored the first points of the season and was tied with BRM in third place.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Vandervell Products Ltd	01	Stirling Moss	Vanwall VW57	Vanwall 2.5 L4	D.
	02	Tony Brooks
	03	Stuart Lewis-Evans
Scuderia Ferrari	04th	Peter Collins	Ferrari Dino 246F1	Ferrari 2.4 V6	E.
	05	Mike Hawthorn
	06th	Luigi Musso
Cooper Car Company	07th	Roy Salvadori	Cooper T45	Climax 2.2 L4	D.
	08th	Jack Brabham		Climax 2.0 L4
RRC Walker Racing Team	09	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper T45	Climax 2.0 L4	D.
Giorgio Scarlatti	10	Giorgio Scarlatti	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
Jo Bonnier	11	Jo Bonnier	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
HH Gould	12	Masts Gregory	Connaught Type B	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
		Horace Gould			D.
Owen Racing Organization	14th	Jean Behra	BRM P25	BRM 2.5 L4	D.
	15th	Harry Schell
Team Lotus	16	Graham Hill	Lotus 12	Climax 2.0 L4	D.
	17th	Cliff Allison		Climax 2.2 L4
Ecurie Maarsbergen	18th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche 718	Porsche 1.5 B4	D.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Both drivers drove the car in practice, Gregory drove the race.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall	1: 37.1	155.46 km / h	01
02	Stirling Moss	Vanwall	1: 38.0	154.03 km / h	02
03	Tony Brooks	Vanwall	1: 38.1	153.87 km / h	03
04th	Jean Behra	BRM	1: 38.4	153.40 km / h	04th
05	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	1: 38.5	153.25 km / h	05
06th	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	1: 39.1	152.32 km / h	06th
07th	Harry Schell	BRM	1: 39.2	152.17 km / h	07th
08th	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper-Climax	1: 39.2	152.17 km / h	08th
09	Roy Salvadori	Cooper-Climax	1: 39.2	152.17 km / h	09
10	Peter Collins	Ferrari	1: 39.3	152.01 km / h	10
11	Cliff Allison	Lotus Climax	1: 39.4	151.86 km / h	11
12	Luigi Musso	Ferrari	1: 39.5	151.71 km / h	12
13	Graham Hill	Lotus Climax	1: 39.8	151.25 km / h	13
14th	Masts Gregory	Maserati	1: 42.0	147.99 km / h	14th
15th	Jo Bonnier	Maserati	1: 42.3	147.55 km / h	15th
16	Giorgio Scarlatti	Maserati	1: 44.6	144.31 km / h	16
17th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	1: 46.7	141.47 km / h	17th

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Stirling Moss	Vanwall	75		2: 04: 49.2	02
02	Harry Schell	BRM	75		+ 47.9	07th
03	Jean Behra	BRM	75		+1: 42.0	04th
04th	Roy Salvadori	Cooper-Climax	74		+ 1 lap	09
05	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	74		+ 1 lap	06th
06th	Cliff Allison	Lotus Climax	73		+ 2 rounds	11
07th	Luigi Musso	Ferrari	73		+ 2 rounds	12
08th	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	73		+ 2 rounds	05
09	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper-Climax	72		+ 3 rounds	08th
10	Jo Bonnier	Maserati	71		+ 4 rounds	15th
-	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	69		NC	17th
-	Giorgio Scarlatti	Maserati	50		DNF	16		Half wave
-	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall	45		DNF	01		Engine failure
-	Graham Hill	Lotus Climax	41		DNF	13		Overheating
-	Peter Collins	Ferrari	32		DNF	10		transmission
-	Masts Gregory	Vanwall	16		DNF	14th		Fuel pump
-	Tony Brooks	BRM	13		DNF	03		Half wave

World Cup stands after the race

The first five of the race got 8, 6, 4, 3, 2 points. The driver with the fastest race lap received an additional 1 point. Only the six best results from eleven races counted. Only the points of the best placed driver on a team counted in the constructors' championship.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Stirling Moss Cooper-Climax / Vanwall 17th 02  Luigi Musso Ferrari 12 03  Maurice Trintignant Cooper-Climax 8th 04th  Harry Schell BRM 8th 05  Mike Hawthorn Ferrari 7th 06th  Jean Behra Maserati / BRM 6th 07th  Juan Manuel Fangio Maserati 4th 08th  Peter Collins Ferrari 4th 09  Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 3 10  Roy Salvadori Cooper-Climax 3

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Cooper-Climax 19th 02  Ferrari 14th 03  Vanwall 8th 04th  BRM 8th 05  Maserati 3

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Dutch Grand Prix 1958 at en.espnf1.com
• Grand Prix Results: Dutch GP, 1958 at grandprix.com