1957 British Grand Prix
| Racing data | ||
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| 5th of 8 races of the 1957 World Automobile Championship | ||
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| Surname: | X RAC British Grand Prix | |
| Date: | July 20, 1957 | |
| Place: | Liverpool , UK | |
| Course: | Aintree Circuit | |
| Length: | 434.52 km in 90 laps of 4.828 km
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| Weather: | cloudy, dry | |
| Pole position | ||
| Driver: |
 Stirling Moss
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Vanwall
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| Time: | 2: 00.2 min | |
| Fastest lap | ||
| Driver: |
Stirling Moss
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Vanwall
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| Time: | 1: 59.2 min | |
| Podium | ||
| First: |
Stirling Moss Tony Brooks
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Vanwall
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| Second: |
 Luigi Musso
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Ferrari
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| Third: |
Mike Hawthorn
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Ferrari
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The 1957 British Grand Prix took place on July 20, 1957 at the Aintree Circuit near Liverpool and was the fifth race of the 1957 World Automobile Championship . The Grand Prix also had the FIA honorary title of European Grand Prix .
Reports
background
Before the 1957 British Grand Prix, a non-World Championship Grand Prix was held in Reims, which Luigi Musso won in a Ferrari . For Ferrari it was already the third victory in 1957 in such a race, but in the Grands Prix, which counted for the drivers' championship, there was no win.
The Grand Prix of Great Britain took place for the second time in 1957 on the Aintree Circuit , which alternated annually as the venue with the Silverstone Circuit . The previous winner of the Grand Prix, Stirling Moss , competed, while the reigning world champion Juan Manuel Fangio was clearly ahead of the competition in the drivers' championship .
The two top Italian teams Maserati and Ferrari competed with an unchanged driver line-up with four cars each. For Maurice Trintignant it was the last race for Scuderia Ferrari, after the race he moved to the Rob Walker Racing Team , which made its debut at the 1957 British Grand Prix. The new Formula 1 team used a Cooper T43 for Jack Brabham . As the Rob Walker Racing Team, the team became the most successful of those who never competed in Grand Prix with their own cars. The team won nine races from 1957 to 1970. The Cooper works team also competed, but only uses one car for Roy Salvadori .
Vanwall registered three cars for the home race. Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks came back after illness and injury, Stuart Lewis-Evans established himself as the third regular driver and also drove for Vanwall for the rest of the season. BRM competed for their home race again in the 1957 Automobile World Championship with two cars and then withdrew prematurely from Formula 1 for the rest of the season. BRM provided Jack Fairman and Les Leston cars, and for Leston this was his final Grand Prix.
With Jo Bonnier , Horace Gould and Ivor Bueb , three drivers drove private Maserati 250Fs , while Bob Gerard ended his Formula 1 career in a private Cooper BG43 . This was the only time that this car was used in a Formula 1 race.
training
Vanwall significantly improved the performance of their cars compared to previous races and was on par with the Maserati in practice. Fangio, who was in poor health and usually took pole position , missed it and reached fourth place on the grid. His team-mate Jean Behra was the only driver who kept up with Moss and Brooks and achieved position two. Moss was two tenths of a second faster, taking first pole position for Vanwall and for a British team overall. Brooks completed the front row in the second Vanwall. Hawthorn, in the fastest Ferrari, was fifth, one second behind Moss' pole time and started next to Fangio on the second row of the grid. Row three consisted of Lewis-Evans in the third Vanwall, Harry Schell in the third Maserati and Peter Collins , who drove for Ferrari. Maurice Trintignant and Luigi Musso's Ferrari cars completed the top ten.
While Vanwall's cars were capable of winning, BRM and Cooper lacked competitiveness. BRM achieved starting positions twelve and 16, while Cooper and Salvadori started the race from position 15. The drivers with private cars qualified for the back field, the fastest of these drivers was Brabham in 13th place.
run
Behra won the duel between Vanwall and Maserati, but Moss overtook him on the first lap of the race to take the lead. Brooks stayed behind in third place and dueled with the Ferrari of Hawthorn and Collins. Fangio got away relatively badly again and lost several positions, Schell and Musso also overtook him. Gould, who was injured in an accident during training, was unable to take part in the race. Four British drivers were in the top five, and with the Vanwall, a British car was in a promising position for the first race win.
Moss continuously expanded his lead over Behra up to lap 21, while Bonnier retired on lap 18 with a technical defect. Moss also got problems with his Vanwall and headed for the pit to attempt repairs. At Vanwall, however, it was decided to let Brooks and Moss swap the car. Brooks' car ran without problems, but Brooks was still handicapped from injuries in an accident at the 1957 24 Hours of Le Mans . For this reason, the team believed Moss would have a better chance of winning the race in Brooks' working car. Both drivers continued the race a little later and tried to make up the positions they had lost, Moss fell back to ninth place.
Behra, who had taken the lead, managed it without any problems, as Hawthorn, who was now in second place, did not have a competitive Ferrari to overtake Behra. Lewis-Evans, who overtook Collins, had meanwhile moved up to third place. Moss managed to overtake several opponents within a few laps and was thus in fifth place behind Collins when several technical failures significantly changed the classification. Menditeguy retired on lap 35 with no power transmission to his car, Schell on lap 39 due to a defective water pump. Leston suffered an engine failure on lap 45, just three laps later his team-mate Fairman suffered the same fate, as a result of which both cars were eliminated at BRM. BRM then withdrew from Formula 1 for the rest of the season. World Championship leader Fangio also retired on lap 48 with an engine failure, two laps later the engine on Brooks' car was also finally broken. On lap 53, Collins continued his failure series and on lap 69, Behra in the lead parked his car with a defective clutch. This literally exploded and distributed car parts on the route, through which Hawthorn got a puncture.
When he fell behind, Lewis-Evans briefly took the lead before Moss overtook him on lap 69. Moss was back in first place due to the failure of all the competition. The one-two together with Lewis-Evans did not materialize because he fell back to seventh place with another technical defect. Moss also made a safety pit stop shortly before the end of the race, but came back to the race track with a margin of 25 seconds before second-placed Musso.
Moss won the British Grand Prix at the Aintree Circuit for the second time in a row. For his team Vanwall this meant the maiden win, which was also the first Grand Prix success for a British car. According to Moss, Fangio is said to have been the first to congratulate the team on this historic achievement. Moss shared the points for victory with Brooks as both drivers drove the car in the race. This was the third and final Formula 1 victory shared by two drivers, and for Brooks it was the first victory of his Formula 1 career.
The Ferrari team remained without a win in the 1957 Formula 1 season, Musso and Hawthorn completed the podium, Trintignant finished fourth in his last race for Ferrari. For the last three laps of the race, Collins drove Trintignant's car. However, the responsible race stewarts were of the opinion that this was too short a distance that Collins had driven and gave Trintignant the full three points, while Collins received no points. Salvadori achieved another historic success on Cooper, who completed the points in fifth place. These were the first driver evaluation points for a car with a mid-engine in Formula 1, as well as Salvadori's first points.
In the drivers' standings, Musso improved to second, ahead of Brooks in third. Fangio's lead was reduced to 12 points. Thus, Fangio had the opportunity to become world champion early in the next race with a win and six points more than Musso, as well as three points more than Brooks, which he should have achieved.
Registration list
Remarks
- ↑ a b Maurice Trintignant drove the car 85 laps, Peter Collins 3 laps.
- ↑ a b Stirling Moss drove the car 25 laps, Tony Brooks 26 laps.
- ↑ a b Tony Brooks drove the car 26 laps, Stirling Moss 64 laps.
Classifications
Starting grid
| Item | driver | constructor | time | Ø speed | begin |
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| 1 |
Stirling Moss
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Vanwall
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2: 00.2 | 144.60 km / h | 1 |
| 2 |
 Jean Behra
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Maserati
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2: 00.4 | 144.36 km / h | 2 |
| 3 |
Tony Brooks
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Vanwall
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2: 00.4 | 144.32 km / h | 3 |
| 4th |
 Juan Manuel Fangio
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Maserati
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2: 00.6 | 144.12 km / h | 4th |
| 5 |
Mike Hawthorn
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Ferrari
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2: 01.2 | 143.41 km / h | 5 |
| 6th |
Stuart Lewis-Evans
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Vanwall
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2: 01.2 | 143.41 km / h | 6th |
| 7th |
 Harry Schell
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Maserati
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2: 01.4 | 143.17 km / h | 7th |
| 8th |
Peter Collins
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Ferrari
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2: 01.8 | 142.70 km / h | 8th |
| 9 |
Maurice Trintignant
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Ferrari
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2: 03.3 | 140.96 km / h | 9 |
| 10 |
Luigi Musso
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Ferrari
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2: 03.4 | 140.85 km / h | 10 |
| 11 |
Carlos Menditeguy
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Maserati
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2: 05.4 | 138.60 km / h | 11 |
| 12 |
Les Leston
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BRM
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2: 05.6 | 138.38 km / h | 12 |
| 13 |
 Jack Brabham
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Cooper-Climax
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2: 07.0 | 136.86 km / h | 13 |
| 14th |
Horace Gould
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Maserati
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2: 07.0 | 136.86 km / h | 14th |
| 15th |
Roy Salvadori
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Cooper-Climax
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2: 07.4 | 136.43 km / h | 15th |
| 16 |
Jack Fairman
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BRM
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2: 08.6 | 135.15 km / h | 16 |
| 17th |
 Jo Bonnier
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Maserati
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2: 12.6 | 131.08 km / h | 17th |
| 18th |
Bob Gerard
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Cooper-Bristol
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2: 12.6 | 131.08 km / h | 18th |
| 19th |
Ivor Bueb
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Maserati
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2: 15.4 | 128.37 km / h | 19th |
run
| Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
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| 1 |
Tony Brooks Stirling Moss
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Vanwall
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90 | 3: 06: 37.8 | 3 | |||
| 2 |
Luigi Musso
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Ferrari
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90 | + 25.6 | 10 | |||
| 3 |
Mike Hawthorn
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Ferrari
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90 | + 25.6 | 5 | |||
| 4th |
Maurice Trintignant Peter Collins
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Ferrari
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88 | + 2 rounds | 9 | |||
| 5 |
Roy Salvadori
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Cooper-Climax
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85 | + 5 rounds | 15th | |||
| 6th |
Bob Gerard
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Cooper-Bristol
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82 | + 8 rounds | 18th | |||
| 7th |
Stuart Lewis-Evans
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Vanwall
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82 | + 8 rounds | 6th | |||
| 8th |
Ivor Bueb
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Maserati
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71 | + 19 laps | 19th | |||
| - |
Jack Brabham
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Cooper-Climax
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75 | DNF | 13 | coupling | ||
| - |
Jean Behra
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Maserati
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69 | DNF | 2 | coupling | ||
| - |
Peter Collins
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Ferrari
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53 | DNF | 8th | Water Leak | ||
| - |
Stirling Moss Tony Brooks
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Vanwall
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50 | DNF | 1 | Engine failure | ||
| - |
Juan Manuel Fangio
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Maserati
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48 | DNF | 4th | Engine failure | ||
| - |
Jack Fairman
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BRM
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48 | DNF | 16 | Engine failure | ||
| - |
Les Leston
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BRM
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45 | DNF | 12 | Engine failure | ||
| - |
Harry Schell
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Maserati
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39 | DNF | 7th | water pump | ||
| - |
Carlos Menditeguy
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Maserati
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35 | DNF | 11 | Power transmission | ||
| - |
Jo Bonnier
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Maserati
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18th | DNF | 17th | Power transmission | ||
| - |
Horace Gould
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Maserati
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0 | DNS | injury |
World Cup stand 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 five best results from eight races counted.
Driver ranking
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