1960 Dutch Grand Prix

 1960 Dutch Grand Prix

Racing data
4th of 10 races of the 1960 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	IX Grote Prijs van Nederland
Date:	June 6, 1960
Place:	Zandvoort , the Netherlands
Course:	Circuit Park Zandvoort
Length:	314.475 km in 75 laps of 4.193 km
Weather:	dry, sunny
Pole position
Driver:	Stirling Moss	Lotus Climax
Time:	1: 33.2 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Stirling Moss	Lotus Climax
Time:	1: 33.8 min
Podium
First:	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax
Second:	Innes Ireland	Lotus Climax
Third:	Graham Hill	BRM

The 1960 Dutch Grand Prix took place on June 6th at the Circuit Park Zandvoort near Zandvoort and was the fourth race of the 1960 Automobile World Championship .

Reports

background

Jim Clark's debut (picture from 1966)

After the serious accident at the Monaco Grand Prix , Cliff Allison was out for the rest of the season, so Ferrari only named three cars for the race. Phil Hill and Richie Ginther drove the Ferrari Dino 246F1 ; Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips also had the rear-engined version, the Dino 246P , which was not used. The Lotus team also used three cars, alongside the regular drivers Innes Ireland and Alan Stacey , Jim Clark was given a cockpit. Clark made his debut in the automobile world championship and then became one of the most successful drivers of the 1960s with the world championship win in 1963 and 1965 and various records.

Cooper and BRM did not change their driver pairings, Scarab also drove with the previous line-up, Lance Reventlow and Chuck Daigh . Aston Martin contested the first of two races of the season and fielded an Aston Martin DBR4 for Roy Salvadori . Other teams reported private Cooper T51 and Lotus 18 . Stirling Moss started in a Lotus for the Rob Walker Racing Team , the Yeoman Credit Racing Team fielded three Cooper for Chris Bristow , Tony Brooks and Henry Taylor . For Taylor it was the first race of the season. In addition, Scuderia Centro Sud had two Cooper for Maurice Trintignant and Masten Gregory in action, Carel Godin de Beaufort drove his own Cooper for Ecurie Maarsbergen , his only race of the season.

Bruce McLaren was in the lead in the drivers' standings from Stirling Moss and Jim Rathmann . Rathmann was winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 1960 , but did not participate in any other races of the 1960 World Cup. McLaren's teammate and reigning world champion Jack Brabham had not yet scored any points in the first three races of the season. In the constructors' championship, Cooper was ahead of Ferrari, Lotus and BRM. With Moss and Joakim Bonnier , two former winners of the race took part. Ferrari had previously been successful twice, BRM once.

training

Moss drove the fastest time in training and thus achieved for the sixth time in a row the pole position in the world championship races to which he competed. If Moss was superior to the competition in the previous training duels, the gap to second-placed Brabham was only two tenths of a second this time. Ireland qualified in third place ahead of the three BRMs of Jo Bonnier , Graham Hill and Dan Gurney . Behind them, the midfield was split between Cooper and Lotus, Bristow was seventh ahead of Stacey, McLaren and Brooks. Clark qualified eleventh on his debut. Ferrari, the only front-engined cars in the starting field, occupied places in the back field, a clear sign of the end of the era of front-engined cars. Ginther was three seconds slower than pole time. Taylor, Trintignant and Beaufort also qualified for the race.

Several teams and drivers decided not to participate in the race after training because there were disputes with the organizer about the prize money. The entire Scarab team, Aston Martin and Gregory were affected.

run

Dan Gurney's accident

A spectator died in the accident, Dan Gurney was uninjured.

Brabham won the starting duel against Moss and led the race from the first lap of the race. Ireland and Stacey positioned themselves behind Moss so that Brabham had three Lotus cars behind them. On the second lap of the race, Stacey overtook his teammate Ireland, who countered a short time later. Behind, McLaren passed Phil Hill. Due to the duels in the chasing field, the front of the field pulled apart, so that Brabham built up a lead over Moss, who in turn was a few seconds away from the opponents behind him. Brooks retired on lap four with a gearbox failure. McLaren parked his car on lap eight after damage to the transmission. Bristow, Brooks team-mate, retired a lap later with engine failure.

The race was then overshadowed by a serious accident involving Dan Gurney . After Gurney improved to fifth place, the brakes of his BRM failed before a hairpin turn. Gurney spun off the track and rolled over. He collided with a spectator who was in a cordoned off area. The viewer died of his serious injuries, Gurney survived the accident unharmed. The first fatal accident in the 1960 World Automobile Championship was the start of a series of serious accidents that continued in the next race, the Belgian Grand Prix, with the fatal accidents of Stacey and Bristow.

Clark gained several positions through failures and overtaking maneuvers and improved to fifth behind his team-mates Ireland and Stacey. Before that, Brabham damaged a curb on lap 17, parts of which caused a tire damage in the following Moss. Moss had his car repaired in the pits and then continued the race. So the three Lotus drivers Ireland, Stacey and Clark improved their positions until Graham Hill caught up with the group and overtook Clark.

Another series of failures began on lap 39, when Trintignant retired with transmission problems. Clark parked his car a few laps later with no power transmission. As a result, there were two engine failures on lap 54, which ended Phil Hill's and Bonnier's races. Stacey was the last to drop out. He had the same technical defect as his teammate Clark.

Brabham won with a 24-second lead over Ireland and led every race lap. This was Brabham's first win of the season after failing to finish in previous races. At the same time it was the only victory for Cooper on this circuit, for Brabham the first of two. There were four different winners in the first four races of the season. Ireland took its first podium, as did Graham Hill, who finished third. Moss overtook several opponents before the end of the race and was fourth just behind Graham Hill. The Ferrari drivers Graf Berghe von Trips and Ginther achieved the remaining positions in the points with fifth and sixth, both were one lap behind. In addition, Taylor and de Beaufort each reached the finish in seventh and eighth positions, each several laps behind. The fastest race lap was driven by Moss. In the drivers' championship, Moss came within three points of the leading McLaren. Brabham improved to fourth place with his first points of the season, Ireland improved to fifth. In the constructors' championship, Cooper extended his lead over the competition to seven points, Lotus overtook Ferrari and was second.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Scuderia Ferrari	01	Phil Hill	Ferrari Dino 246F1	Ferrari 2.4 V6	D.
	02	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari Dino 246F1
			Ferrari Dino 246P
	03	Richie Ginther	Ferrari Dino 256F1
Team Lotus	04th	Innes Ireland	Lotus 18	Climax 2.5 L4	D.
	05	Alan Stacey
	06th	Jim Clark
RRC Walker Racing Team	07th	Stirling Moss	Lotus 18	Climax 2.5 L4	D.
Yeoman Credit Racing Team	08th	Chris Bristow	Cooper T51	Climax 2.5 L4	D.
	09	Tony Brooks
	10	Henry Taylor
Cooper Car Company	11	Jack Brabham	Cooper T53	Climax 2.5 L4	D.
	12	Bruce McLaren
Owen Racing Organization	14th	Jo Bonnier	BRM P48	BRM 2.5 L4	D.
	15th	Dan Gurney
	16	Graham Hill
David Brown Corporation	17th	Roy Salvadori	Aston Martin DBR4	Aston Martin 2.5 L6	D.
Scuderia Centro Sud	18th	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper T51	Maserati 2.5 L4	D.
	19th	Masts Gregory
Ecurie Maarsbergen	20th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Cooper T51	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Reventlow Automobiles Inc.	21st	Lance Reventlow	Scarab Type 1	Scarab 2.4 L4	D.
	22nd	Chuck Daigh

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Stirling Moss	Lotus Climax	1: 33.2	161.96 km / h	01
02	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	1: 33.4	161.61 km / h	02
03	Innes Ireland	Lotus Climax	1: 33.9	160.75 km / h	03
04th	Jo Bonnier	BRM	1: 34.3	160.07 km / h	04th
05	Graham Hill	BRM	1: 35.1	158.73 km / h	05
06th	Dan Gurney	BRM	1: 35.2	158.56 km / h	06th
07th	Chris Bristow	Cooper-Climax	1: 35.3	158.39 km / h	07th
08th	Alan Stacey	Lotus Climax	1: 35.4	158.23 km / h	08th
09	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	1: 35.7	157.73 km / h	09
10	Tony Brooks	Cooper-Climax	1: 36.0	157.24 km / h	10
11	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	1: 36.3	156.75 km / h	11
12	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	1: 36.3	156.75 km / h	12
13	Phil Hill	Ferrari	1: 36.4	156.59 km / h	13
14th	Henry Taylor	Cooper-Climax	1: 36.4	156.59 km / h	14th
15th	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	1: 36.7	156.10 km / h	15th
16	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper Maserati	1: 38.5	153.25 km / h	16
17th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Cooper-Climax	1: 41.7	148.42 km / h	17th

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	75		2: 01: 47.2	02	1: 34.9
02	Innes Ireland	Lotus Climax	75		+ 24.0	03	1: 35.1
03	Graham Hill	BRM	75		+ 56.6	05	1: 34.6
04th	Stirling Moss	Lotus Climax	75		+ 57.7	01	1: 33.8
05	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	74		+ 1 lap	15th	1: 37.2
06th	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	74		+ 1 lap	12	1: 37.1
07th	Henry Taylor	Cooper-Climax	70		+ 5 rounds	14th	1: 39.1
08th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Cooper-Climax	69		+ 6 rounds	17th	1: 39.6
-	Alan Stacey	Lotus Climax	57		DNF	08th	1: 34.6	Power transmission
-	Jo Bonnier	BRM	54		DNF	04th	1: 37.2	Engine failure
-	Phil Hill	Ferrari	54		DNF	13	1: 37.7	Engine failure
-	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	42		DNF	11	1: 35.7	Power transmission
-	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper Maserati	39		DNF	16	1: 38.1	transmission
-	Dan Gurney	BRM	11		DNF	06th	1: 34.3	Brakes / accident
-	Chris Bristow	Cooper-Climax	09		DNF	07th	1: 36.7	Engine failure
-	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	08th		DNF	09	1: 37.0	Power transmission
-	Tony Brooks	Cooper-Climax	04th		DNF	10	1: 38.9	transmission
-	Chuck Daigh	Scarab	00		DNS			Money dispute
-	Masts Gregory	Cooper Maserati	00		DNS			Money dispute
-	Lance Reventlow	Scarab	00		DNS			Money dispute
-	Roy Salvadori	Aston Martin	00		DNS			Money dispute

World Cup stands after the race

The first six of the race got 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 points. Only the six best results from ten 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  Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 14th 02  Stirling Moss Lotus Climax 11 03  Jim Rathmann Watson-Offenhauser 8th 04th  Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 8th 05  Innes Ireland Lotus Climax 7th 06th  Cliff Allison Ferrari 6th 07th  Rodger Ward Watson-Offenhauser 6th 08th  Graham Hill BRM 4th 09  Phil Hill Ferrari 4th

Item driver constructor Points 10  Paul Goldsmith Epperly-Offenhauser 4th 11  Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips Ferrari 4th 12  Carlos Menditeguy Cooper Maserati 3 13  Tony Brooks Cooper-Climax 3 14th  Don Branson Phillips-Offenhauser 3 15th  Jo Bonnier BRM 2 16  Johnny Thomson Lesovsky-Offenhauser 2 17th  Richie Ginther Ferrari 2 18th  Eddie Johnson Trevis-Offenhauser 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  cooper 22nd 02  lotus 15th 03  Ferrari 12 04th  BRM 6th

Web links

• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: Dutch GP, 1960 at grandprix.com