1958 British Grand Prix

 1958 British Grand Prix

Racing data
7th of 11 races in the 1958 World Automobile Championship
Surname:	XI RAC British Grand Prix
Date:	July 19, 1958
Place:	Silverstone , UK
Course:	Silverstone Circuit
Length:	353.2875 km in 75 laps of 4.7105 km
Weather:	sunny, dry
Pole position
Driver:	Stirling Moss	Vanwall
Time:	1: 39.4 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari
Time:	1: 40.8 min
Podium
First:	Peter Collins	Ferrari
Second:	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari
Third:	Roy Salvadori	Cooper-Climax

The 1958 British Grand Prix took place on July 19, 1958 at the Silverstone Circuit near Silverstone and was the seventh race of the 1958 World Automobile Championship .

Reports

background

After Juan Manuel Fangio's career ended , there was no world champion in the driver field for the rest of the season, a state that lasted until the end of the 1959 Automobile World Championship and only reappeared in the 1994 Formula 1 World Championship . Previously, this only happened in the 1950 World Automobile Championship , the first World Automobile Championship.

After Luigi Musso's fatal accident at the French Grand Prix in 1958 , Ferrari only entered three cars, Peter Collins , whose regular place at Scuderia Ferrari was in question, was again a permanent member of the team from this race on. In addition to Collins, Mike Hawthorn and Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips drove for Ferrari.

While BRM and Vanwall started with the same driver pairing, there were changes at Lotus and Cooper . Ian Burgess drove his first Formula 1 race for Cooper, Alan Stacey made his debut at Lotus . The new Lotus 16 was used for Stacey and his teammate Graham Hill , while Cliff Allison still drove the previous model, the Lotus 12 .

Again, several drivers started with private cars, Maurice Trintignant drove for the Rob Walker Racing Team in an older Cooper T43 with which the team won the first two races of the season. The Scuderia Centro Sud was with two Maserati 250F reported for the Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1958, Carroll Shelby and Gerino Gerini were the drivers. Jo Bonnier also competed in a private Maserati 250F. The later Formula 1 boss, Bernie Ecclestone, tried to qualify for a second and final time for a Grand Prix after the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix. In his own team, with two purchased Connaught Type B , and teammates Jack Fairman and Ivor Bueb , he was registered for the race.

In the drivers 'standings, Hawthorn was level with Vanwall driver Stirling Moss , in the drivers' standings Ferrari was six points ahead of Vanwall. Ferrari won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone five times in a row in previous years, although no former winner of this race took part.

training

Training for the 1958 British Grand Prix was even between the top teams. Five different cars qualified on the first five places, the fastest driver was Moss in the Vanwall. For Vanwall this was the third pole position of the season and for Moss the first. In addition to Moss, Harry Schell qualified on the front row in the BRM, Roy Salvadori in the Cooper came third. Hawthorn, Moss 'greatest rival in the duel for the drivers' title, qualified in fourth place, one second behind pole time. Allison, who drove the same time as Hawthorn, was fifth as he set his fastest time after Hawthorn. Once again he proved that the older Lotus 12 was faster than its successor, the Lotus 16, because Hill only qualified in 14th place, while Stacey was even last on the grid.

In midfield, Collins finished sixth ahead of Lewis-Evans on Vanwall and Jean Behra on BRM Moss team-mate Tony Brooks and Cooper driver Jack Brabham completed the top ten. The best driver of those with private cars was Trintignant in 12th place on the grid. Both Bueb and Fairman qualified for the Ecclestone Team. Bernie Ecclestone himself did not drive any time in practice, left his car to Fairman and then ended his short career as a driver. He focused on his role as team boss in the decades that followed.

run

Collins won the starting duel, starting from sixth place, he overtook five opponents in the first lap of the race and then led the race to the finish line. After the first lap of the race, Moss took second place, ahead of Hawthorn, Brooks, Schell and Salvadori who dueled for third place. In the following laps, Collins continued to pull away from his rivals, with Moss behind him and Hawthorn, while Schell and Salvadori lost touch with the first three cars.

The first retirement of the race occurred on lap seven. Fairman retired with a defective ignition. Technical problems then began to arise with the Lotus cars, Hill retired on lap 17, Stacey followed just two laps later. As with his teammate Hill before, on lap 21 there was a lack of oil pressure at the end of the race for Allison, which meant that all three Lotus cars were eliminated. On lap 19, Bueb's gearbox went on strike, which meant that the Ecclestone team couldn't bring a car to the finish either. On the same lap, Behra ran over a hare that was crossing the track and suffered a flat tire that forced him to end the race early. The series of failures then continued on lap 25, when Moss suffered an engine failure while lying in second position.

Due to the failure of Moss, Collins drove a safe race to first place, behind him was his team-mate Hawthorn, who however needed a pit stop a few laps later to refill oil. Lewis-Evans had fought his way up to third, but lost that position to Salvadori. Hawthorn came back on the track after his pit stop just before Salvadori, but he held second place until the end of the race, as Salvadori had to assert himself in a duel with Lewis-Evans. With Burgess, Gerini, Bonnier and Trips another four drivers retired, only nine drivers made it to the finish.

For Collins it was the third and final victory of his career. One race later, at the 1958 German Grand Prix , he had a fatal accident. For Ferrari it was the second victory in a row, but the last in the Formula 1 season in 1958. It was also the last victory for the tire manufacturer Englebert . Ferrari ended a series of six victories in a row at this track with the 1958 British Grand Prix, which began with the first Ferrari victory in the team's history at the 1951 British Grand Prix . Ferrari only achieved its next victory at Silverstone decades later, when Alain Prost won the British Grand Prix in 1990 .

Hawthorn was 24 seconds behind Collins at the finish, but took the lead in the drivers' standings in second place. With the additional point for driving the fastest lap of the race, Hawthorn increased his lead over Moss to seven points. With the win, Collins improved to third place. Salvadori completed the podium, his first of two podium finishes. Lewis-Evans in fourth and Schell in fifth also received points. As in the previous race, Brabham narrowly missed out on the points with position six. In the constructors' championship all placements remained unchanged, Ferrari extended the lead over Vanwall to 11 points. With four remaining races of the season, both ratings were completely open and everyone still had the theoretical opportunity to become world champion.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Scuderia Ferrari	01	Peter Collins	Ferrari Dino 246F1	Ferrari 2.4 V6	E.
	02	Mike Hawthorn
	03	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips
Rob Walker Racing Team	04th	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper T43	Climax 2.0 L4	D.
Scuderia Centro Sud	05	Carroll Shelby	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
	06th	Gerino Gerini
Vandervell Products Ltd	07th	Stirling Moss	Vanwall VW57	Vanwall 2.5 L4	D.
	08th	Tony Brooks
	09	Stuart Lewis-Evans
Cooper Car Company	10	Roy Salvadori	Cooper T45	Climax 2.2 L4	D.
	11	Jack Brabham		Climax 2.0 L4
	12	Ian Burgess		Climax 2.0 L4
BC Ecclestone	14th	Jack Fairman	Connaught Type B	Alta 2.5 L4	D.
		Bernie Ecclestone
	15th	Ivor Bueb
Team Lotus	16	Graham Hill	Lotus 16	Climax 2.0 L4	D.
	17th	Cliff Allison	Lotus 12	Climax 2.2 L4
	18th	Alan Stacey	Lotus 16	Climax 2.0 L4
Owen Racing Organization	19th	Jean Behra	BRM P25	BRM 2.5 L4	D.
	20th	Harry Schell
Jo Bonnier	36	Jo Bonnier	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Both drivers were registered for the car, Jack Fairman drove it in practice and in the race.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Stirling Moss	Vanwall	1: 39.4	170.60 km / h	01
02	Harry Schell	BRM	1: 39.8	169.92 km / h	02
03	Roy Salvadori	Cooper-Climax	1.40.0	169.58 km / h	03
04th	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	1: 40.4	168.90 km / h	04th
05	Cliff Allison	Lotus Climax	1: 40.4	168.90 km / h	05
06th	Peter Collins	Ferrari	1: 40.6	168.57 km / h	06th
07th	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall	1: 41.4	167.24 km / h	07th
08th	Jean Behra	BRM	1: 41.4	167.24 km / h	08th
09	Tony Brooks	Vanwall	1: 41.6	166.91 km / h	09
10	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	1: 42.0	166.25 km / h	10
11	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	1: 42.0	166.25 km / h	11
12	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper-Climax	1: 42.6	165.28 km / h	12
13	Jo Bonnier	Maserati	1: 43.0	164.64 km / h	13
14th	Graham Hill	Lotus Climax	1: 43.0	164.64 km / h	14th
15th	Carroll Shelby	Maserati	1: 44.2	162.74 km / h	15th
16	Ian Burgess	Cooper-Climax	1: 45.4	160.89 km / h	16
17th	Ivor Bueb	Connaught-Alta	1: 51.4	152.22 km / h	17th
18th	Gerino Gerini	Maserati	1: 53.0	150.07 km / h	18th
19th	Jack Fairman	Connaught-Alta	1: 58.8	142.74 km / h	19th
20th	Alan Stacey	Lotus Climax	1: 58.8	142.74 km / h	20th
21st	Bernie Ecclestone	Connaught-Alta	no time		DNQ

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Peter Collins	Ferrari	75		2: 09: 04.2	06th
02	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	75		+ 24.2	04th	1: 40.8
03	Roy Salvadori	Cooper-Climax	75		+ 50.6	03
04th	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall	75		+ 50.6	07th
05	Harry Schell	BRM	75		+1: 14.8	02
06th	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	75		+1: 23.2	10
07th	Tony Brooks	Vanwall	74		+ 1 lap	09
08th	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper-Climax	73		+ 2 rounds	12
09	Carroll Shelby	Maserati	72		+ 3 rounds	15th
-	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	59		DNF	11
-	Jo Bonnier	Maserati	49		DNF	13		transmission
-	Gerino Gerini	Maserati	43		DNF	18th		transmission
-	Ian Burgess	Cooper-Climax	40		DNF	16		coupling
-	Stirling Moss	Vanwall	25th		DNF	01		Engine failure
-	Cliff Allison	Lotus Climax	21st		DNF	05		oil pressure
-	Ivor Bueb	Connaught-Alta	19th		DNF	17th		transmission
-	Jean Behra	BRM	19th		DNF	08th		Run over flatfoot / rabbit
-	Alan Stacey	Lotus Climax	19th		DNF	20th		Overheating
-	Graham Hill	Lotus Climax	17th		DNF	14th		oil pressure
-	Jack Fairman	Connaught-Alta	07th		DNF	19th		ignition

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 23 03  Peter Collins Ferrari 14th 04th  Luigi Musso Ferrari 12 05  Harry Schell BRM 12 06th  Maurice Trintignant Cooper-Climax 8th 07th  Tony Brooks Vanwall 8th 08th  Jimmy Bryan Epperly-Offenhauser 8th 09  Roy Salvadori Cooper-Climax 7th 10  Stuart Lewis-Evans Vanwall 7th

Item driver constructor Points 11  Juan Manuel Fangio Maserati 7th 12  George Amick Epperly-Offenhauser 6th 13  Jean Behra Maserati / BRM 6th 14th  Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips Ferrari 4th 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 36 02  Vanwall 25th 03  Cooper-Climax 23 04th  BRM 12 05  Maserati 6th 06th  lotus 3

Web links

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