1958 German Grand Prix

 1958 German Grand Prix

Racing data
8th of 11 races in the 1958 World Automobile Championship
Surname:	XX Grand Prix of Germany
Date:	3rd August 1958
Place:	Nuerburg , Germany
Course:	Nürburgring
Length:	342.15 km in 15 laps of 22.81 km
Weather:	sunny, dry
Pole position
Driver:	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari
Time:	9: 14.0 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Stirling Moss	Vanwall
Time:	9: 09.2 min
Podium
First:	Tony Brooks	Vanwall
Second:	Roy Salvadori	Cooper-Climax
Third:	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper-Climax

The 1958 German Grand Prix took place on August 3, 1958 at the Nürburgring near Nürburg and was the eighth race of the 1958 World Cup . The distance of the race was shortened from 22 laps to 15.

Reports

background

As in the previous year, at the 1957 German Grand Prix , the small, less exciting starting field of Formula 1 was expanded in such a way that the Formula 2 race of the Formula 2 season 1958 took place at the same time on the Nordschleife. The drivers in the Formula 2 classification were counted for both training and the race result in the Formula 1 classification, but could not score any points for the drivers' world championship. Two weeks before the Grand Prix was not the scoring for the World Cup Grand Prix de Caen played, the Stirling Moss on a private Cooper of the Rob Walker Racing Team won.

After Luigi Musso's fatal accident and a race with only three vehicles, Scuderia Ferrari was again registered with four vehicles for the 1958 German Grand Prix. The fourth cockpit was given to Phil Hill , the new regular driver and 1961 driver world champion in a Ferrari. In addition to Phil Hill, Peter Collins , Mike Hawthorn and Wolfgang Graf Berghe started trips for Ferrari. In contrast to his teammates, Phil Hill competed in the Formula 2 classification. For Collins it was the last race; he had a fatal accident in this race.

BRM started unchanged with the driver pairing Harry Schell and Jean Behra , Vanwall only used two cars for Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks , Stuart Lewis-Evans paused for one race, but drove for Vanwall for the rest of the season. Cooper started again with Jack Brabham and Roy Salvadori , the team used a third car in the Formula 2 classification. Bruce McLaren , later founder of the McLaren racing team, made his Grand Prix debut with it. The fifth works team entered for the race was Lotus with Graham Hill and Cliff Allison .

Other drivers in private vehicles competed in both categories. In the Formula 1 category, these were Maurice Trintignant for the Rob Walker Racing Team and Hans Herrmann , Troy Ruttman and Joakim Bonnier for Scuderia Centro Sud , who fielded private Maserati 250Fs . For Bonnier and Ruttman it was the last race for the Scuderia Centro Sud, Bonnier drove the rest of the season for his own team, Ruttman withdrew from Formula 1 and only drove one more race in Formula 1 than the Indianapolis 500 in 1960 counted for the 1960 automobile world championship .

No former winner of the German Grand Prix took part in the race; Ferrari had previously won five teams. In the drivers 'championship, Hawthorn was seven points ahead of Moss, while Ferrari was eleven points ahead of Vanwall in the constructors' championship.

training

Training for the 1958 German Grand Prix was a duel between the two top teams Ferrari and Vanwall. Hawthorn achieved pole position for the third time in the 1958 Formula 1 season . His fastest practice time was 9: 14.0 minutes, eleven seconds faster than the pole time of the previous year. Brooks qualified second, one second behind Hawthorn's time, ahead of teammate Moss, who was more than five seconds slower. Two other Ferraris started behind the two Vanwall, Collins in fourth and Graf Berghe von Trips in fifth.

The midfield was headed by Cooper, Salvadori in the Werkscooper qualified in sixth, Trintignant in the private Cooper of the Rob Walker Racing Team behind. Both BRMs ahead of Phil Hills Ferrari completed the top ten. Phil Hill drove the best training time in the Formula 2 classification, a large number of the Formula 1 drivers qualified behind him.

McLaren reached twelfth on the grid in his debut race, Edgar Barth started for Porsche from 13th place and the best Lotus driver was Ivor Bueb in 16th place. Some drivers drove training times that would have been enough for better positioning, but were classified in the rear field, which leads to it is likely that there were several relegations on the starting line-up. Graham Hill, for example, started from 22nd place with no time, ahead of Christian Goethals with time, who in turn started ahead of Allison, who was more than two seconds faster.

run

Moss won the starting duel between Vanwall and Ferrari and led immediately after the start in front of his teammate Brooks, who fell behind Hawthorn and Collins on the first lap of the race. Ruttman did not start due to an engine failure, Brian Naylor retired after just one lap with a defective fuel pump. In addition, Brabham and Bonnier collided with each other, for both the race was also over on the first lap. In the two following laps of the race, the positions at the top remained unchanged until Moss gave up the race with a defective magneto. Herrmann, Carel Godin de Beaufort and Dick Gibson had already retired with engine damage. The high failure rate in the start phase of the race was continued on lap four by Goethals, Graham Hill and Behra, all of whom had to give up due to technical defects.

After Moss was eliminated, Ferrari took first and second place in the race, the lead over Brooks was a few seconds. Hawthorn led the race for one lap before team-mate Collins overtook him. In the following laps Brooks narrowed the gap to the Ferraris continuously and reached the connection on lap nine. At the same time, Wolfgang Seidel retired with a suspension damage, Schell's brakes failed, which meant that none of the BRMs reached their destination. On lap nine, Brooks dueled Hawthorn for second place and overtook this position on lap ten. Collins also passed Brooks, giving the Vanwall driver the lead. Collins increased the pace to keep up with Brooks and lost control of his car in the “Pflanzgarten” section. Collins got off the track and rolled over several times. He was thrown out of the car and suffered severe head injuries on a tree. He later died of these injuries in the hospital, causing Ferrari to lose another driver in a fatal accident after 1957.

Hawthorn retired one lap later with a damaged clutch, which meant that Brooks finished the race in the lead and won. For him it was the second win of the season, Vanwall won race number three, the only time at the German Grand Prix. Salvadori took second place in the factory Cooper, for him it was the second and final podium finish. Trintignant completed the podium with third place for the Rob Walker Racing Team. The last points were given to Graf Berghe von Trips for fourth place, no points were awarded for fifth, as the fifth-placed McLaren started in the Formula 2 classification, which he won ahead of Barth and Ian Burgess . Drivers with Formula 2 cars were not entitled to points in this race, but drivers with Formula 1 cars did not move up in the ranking either, so that the next-placed from the Formula 1 ranking, Allison in tenth place in the Cooper, did not receive any points. It was not until the 1966 German Grand Prix that Formula 2 cars started again together, but from that point on they were classified separately. Drivers with Formula 1 cars then moved up in this race and thus received points. A total of eleven cars reached the destination.

In the drivers' championship, Hawthorn was six points ahead of Moss, while Brooks moved up four positions to third. Collins dropped to fourth place, while Salvadori also climbed four places up to fifth. There were no shifts in position in the constructors' championship, but Vanwall caught up with the leading Ferrari team, which was already subject to the cancellation rules. Theoretically, Ferrari led with six points ahead of Vanwall, but effectively only with four points because of the deleted results. In the three remaining races, only drivers who already had at least four points could become world champions; among the constructors, three teams with Ferrari, Vanwall and Cooper still had a chance of winning the title.

Registration list

formula 1

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Scuderia Ferrari	02	Peter Collins	Ferrari Dino 246F1	Ferrari 2.4 V6	E.
	03	Mike Hawthorn
	04th	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips
Owen Racing Organization	05	Jean Behra	BRM P25	BRM 2.5 L4	D.
	06th	Harry Schell
Vandervell Products Ltd	07th	Stirling Moss	Vanwall VW57	Vanwall 2.5 L4	D.
	08th	Tony Brooks
Cooper Car Company	10	Roy Salvadori	Cooper T45	Climax 2.2 L4	D.
Rob Walker Racing Team	11	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper T45	Climax 2.2 L4	D.
Team Lotus	12	Cliff Allison	Lotus 16	Climax 2.0 L4	D.
Scuderia Centro Sud	14th	Troy Ruttman	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
	16	Jo Bonnier
	17th	Hans Herrmann

Formula 2

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Ecurie Maarsbergen	18th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche RSK	Porsche 1.5 B4	D.
R. Gibson	19th	Dick Gibson	Cooper T43	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Cooper Car Company	20th	Bruce McLaren	Cooper T45	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
	24	Jack Brabham
Dr. Ing.F. Porsche KG	21st	Edgar Barth	Porsche RSK	Porsche 1.5 B4
Rob Walker Racing Team	22nd	Wolfgang Seidel	Cooper T43	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Scuderia Ferrari	23	Phil Hill	Ferrari Dino 156F2	Ferrari 1.5 V6	E.
Team Lotus	25th	Graham Hill	Lotus 16	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
High efficiency motors	26th	Ian Burgess	Cooper T43	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Ecurie Eperon d'Or	27	Christian Goethals	Cooper T43	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Ecurie Demi Liter	28	Ivor Bueb	Lotus 12	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
JB Naylor	29	Brian Naylor	Cooper T45	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Tony Marsh	30th	Tony Marsh	Cooper T45	Climax 1.5 L4	D.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	9: 14.0	148.22 km / h	01
02	Tony Brooks	Vanwall	9: 15.0	147.96 km / h	02
03	Stirling Moss	Vanwall	9: 19.9	146.66 km / h	03
04th	Peter Collins	Ferrari	9: 21.9	146.14 km / h	04th
05	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	9: 24.7	145.42 km / h	05
06th	Roy Salvadori	Cooper-Climax	9: 35.3	142.74 km / h	06th
07th	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper-Climax	9: 36.9	142.34 km / h	07th
08th	Harry Schell	BRM	9: 39.6	141.68 km / h	08th
09	Jean Behra	BRM	9: 46.8	139.94 km / h	09
10	Phil Hill	Ferrari	9: 48.9	139.44 km / h	10
11	Ian Burgess	Cooper-Climax	9: 55.3	137.94 km / h	11
12	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	9: 56.0	137.78 km / h	12
13	Edgar Barth	Porsche	9: 57.2	137.50 km / h	13
14th	Tony Marsh	Cooper-Climax	9: 57.5	137.43 km / h	14th
15th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	10: 01.5	151.65 km / h	15th
16	Ivor Bueb	Lotus Climax	10: 02.6	136.27 km / h	16
17th	Wolfgang Seidel	Cooper-Climax	10: 21.0	132.23 km / h	17th
18th	Dick Gibson	Cooper-Climax	10: 55.0	125.37 km / h	18th
19th	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	9: 43.4	140.75 km / h	19th
20th	Hans Herrmann	Maserati	10: 13.5	133.85 km / h	20th
21st	Jo Bonnier	Maserati	9: 42.7	140.92 km / h	21st
22nd	Graham Hill	Lotus Climax	no time		22nd
23	Christian Goethals	Cooper-Climax	11: 22.9	120.25 km / h	23
24	Cliff Allison	Lotus Climax	9: 44.3	140.54 km / h	24
25th	Brian Naylor	Cooper-Climax	10: 17.9	132.90 km / h	25th
26th	Troy Ruttman	Maserati	no time		26th

run

Item	Cat.	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	F1	Tony Brooks	Vanwall	15th		2: 21: 15.0	02
02	F1	Roy Salvadori	Cooper-Climax	15th		+ 3: 29.7	06th
03	F1	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper-Climax	15th		+ 5: 11.2	07th
04th	F1	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	15th		+ 6: 16.3	05
05	F2	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	15th		+ 6: 26.3	12
06th	F2	Edgar Barth	Porsche	15th		+ 6: 32.4	13
07th	F2	Ian Burgess	Cooper-Climax	15th		+ 6: 59.3	11
08th	F2	Tony Marsh	Cooper-Climax	15th		+ 7: 09.9	14th
09	F2	Phil Hill	Ferrari	15th		+ 7: 45.5	10
10	F1	Cliff Allison	Lotus Climax	13		+ 2 rounds	24
11	F2	Ivor Bueb	Lotus Climax	13		+ 2 rounds	16
-	F1	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	11		DNF	01		coupling
-	F1	Peter Collins	Ferrari	10		DNF	04th		deadly accident
-	F1	Harry Schell	BRM	09		DNF	08th		Brakes
-	F2	Wolfgang Seidel	Cooper-Climax	09		DNF	17th		suspension
-	F1	Jean Behra	BRM	04th		DNF	09		suspension
-	F2	Graham Hill	Lotus Climax	04th		DNF	22nd		Oil pipe
-	F2	Christian Goethals	Cooper-Climax	04th		DNF	23		Fuel pump
-	F1	Hans Herrmann	Maserati	03		DNF	20th		Engine failure
-	F1	Stirling Moss	Vanwall	03		DNF	03	9: 09.2	Magneto
-	F2	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	03		DNF	15th		Engine failure
-	F2	Dick Gibson	Cooper-Climax	02		DNF	18th		Engine failure
-	F2	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	01		DNF	19th		accident
-	F2	Brian Naylor	Cooper-Climax	01		DNF	25th		Fuel pump
-	F1	Jo Bonnier	Maserati	01		DNF	21st		accident
-	F1	Troy Ruttman	Maserati	00		DNS			Engine failure

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  Mike Hawthorn Ferrari 30th 02  Stirling Moss Cooper-Climax / Vanwall 24 03  Tony Brooks Vanwall 16 04th  Peter Collins Ferrari 14th 05  Roy Salvadori Cooper-Climax 13 06th  Maurice Trintignant Cooper-Climax 12 07th  Luigi Musso Ferrari 12 08th  Harry Schell BRM 12 09  Jimmy Bryan Epperly-Offenhauser 8th 10  Stuart Lewis-Evans Vanwall 7th

Item driver constructor Points 11  Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips Ferrari 7th 12  Juan Manuel Fangio Maserati 7th 13  George Amick Epperly-Offenhauser 6th 14th  Jean Behra Maserati / BRM 6th 15th  Johnny Boyd Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser 4th 16  Tony Bettenhausen Epperly-Offenhauser 4th 17th  Cliff Allison Lotus Climax 3 18th  Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 3 19th  Jim Rathmann Epperly-Offenhauser 2

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Ferrari 37 (39) 02  Vanwall 33 03  Cooper-Climax 29 04th  BRM 12 05  Maserati 6th 06th  lotus 3

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: German GP, ​​1958 at grandprix.com