Great Britain Grand Prix 1960

 Great Britain Grand Prix 1960

Racing data
7th of 10 races of the 1960 World Automobile Championship
Surname:	XIII RAC British Grand Prix
Date:	July 16, 1960
Place:	Silverstone , UK
Course:	Silverstone Circuit
Length:	362.747 km in 77 laps of 4.711 km
Weather:	dry, cloudy
Pole position
Driver:	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax
Time:	1: 34.6 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Graham Hill	BRM
Time:	1: 34.4 (lap 56) min
Podium
First:	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax
Second:	John Surtees	Lotus Climax
Third:	Innes Ireland	Lotus Climax

The 1960 British Grand Prix took place on July 16, 1960 at the Silverstone Circuit near Silverstone and was the seventh race of the 1960 World Automobile Championship .

Reports

background

The Silverstone Circuit and the Aintree Circuit alternated in previous years as the venue for the British Grand Prix. This constant change ended in 1960. The race then took place twice in a row on the Aintree Circuit before the venue changed annually between the Silverstone Circuit and Brands Hatch . The last three races were won by Jack Brabham on Cooper , who led the drivers' championship ahead of teammate Bruce McLaren . Both drivers had 24 points, but Brabham won more races of the season. Before the race, all drivers still had theoretical chances of winning the drivers' title, but Brabham and McLaren had the opportunity to significantly reduce the number of possible title aspirants by placing a points, because the gap to third-placed driver Stirling Moss was already 13 points. In the constructors' championship, Cooper was clearly ahead of Lotus and had the chance to become world champion early. For this, the team only needed a higher position in the race than Lotus and Ferrari .

Since the Scarab cars did not take part in the race weekend due to major engine problems, Cooper decided to provide an old Cooper T51 for the two drivers Lance Reventlow and Chuck Daigh . Since Daigh was faster with the car in practice than Reventlow, he was allowed to compete for Cooper in the race. For Reventlow it was the last Grand Prix of his career; Daigh only drove a Cooper. It was not until the season finale, the 1960 US Grand Prix , that Scarab returned to the automobile world championship with Daigh as driver. Lotus replaced Ron Flockhart with John Surtees , who drove for the team at the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix .

Ferrari only registered two cars for the two regular drivers Phil Hill and Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips for the race . Willy Mairesse paused for two races. Aston Martin took part in the automobile world championship again and entered a new car, the Aston Martin DBR5 . The chassis of the car was identical to that of the Aston Martin DBR4 . Only the weight and size have been reduced to make the car more competitive. However, both did not work satisfactorily. The DBR5 remained in this one race and Aston Martin withdrew from the World Cup to concentrate on Aston Martin's successful sports cars in other racing series. The team drivers for the British Grand Prix were Roy Salvadori and Maurice Trintignant .

Brian Naylor drove the second race of the season in the self-constructed JBW . In addition, many drivers with private cars competed again. The Yeoman Credit Racing Team fielded three Cooper for Tony Brooks , Olivier Gendebien and Henry Taylor , the Scuderia Centro Sud two Cooper for Masten Gregory and Ian Burgess . Other private Cooper T51s were driven by Gino Munaron , Jack Fairman , Keith Greene and Lucien Bianchi . For Fairman and Greene it was the only race of the season, for Bianchi the last of the year. Bianchi didn't drive the Cooper again until 1968 when he switched to the works team. In the intervening years he drove various other private cars. In addition, David Piper drove his last Grand Prix with a Lotus 16 for the Robert Bodle Ltd. team . . With Moss, Brabham and Brooks, three former winners of the race took part; Ferrari and Cooper were previously successful with the designers. Ferrari has won the last six Grands Prix at the Silverstone Circuit, none of the drivers had won on this circuit before.

training

Furthermore, Brabham was dominant in training. With one second ahead of the competition, he secured the third pole position in a row. For Cooper it was the fourth of the season. In second place on the grid, Graham Hill qualified on one of the BRMs , which were more competitive on the Silverstone Circuit than in previous races. Graham Hill's teammates also qualified for the front starting positions, with Jo Bonnier fourth and Dan Gurney sixth. Brabham's team-mate McLaren started from third after having mostly started from midfield in previous races.

Best Lotus driver was Ireland in fifth place, best Ferrari driver Graf Berghe von Trips in seventh place. The top 10 were completed by Clark, Brooks and Phil Hill. Salvadori qualified the Aston Martin in 13th place, his team mate Trintignant came in 21. In the duel for the free cockpit at Cooper, Daigh was better than Reventlow and therefore took part in the race for the team. Reventlow, however, withdrew his entry for the Grand Prix. All drivers qualified for the race, even Munaron, who hadn't set time.

run

Cooper T53 of the constructors world champion

Graham Hill overtook the entire field before retiring (picture from 1969)

As at the French Grand Prix a week earlier, Graham Hill stalled the engine of his car at the start and stopped. This time all the other drivers avoided the standing BRM and Graham Hill continued the race after restarting the engine in last place. Brooks' and Taylor's two Cooper also stopped at the start, but both drivers also continued the race. Brabham won the starting duel. McLaren, Bonnier and Ireland positioned themselves behind him. The lead of two cars from the Cooper works team then only stopped for one lap. First Bonnier overtook McLaren, then Ireland passed both McLaren and Bonnier.

Graham Hill, who was in 22nd place after the first lap, started a chase that brought him to the top during the course of the race. Graham Hill overtook four cars on lap two and three, and two more overtaking maneuvers on lap four put him in twelfth place. While at the head of the field Brabham increased his lead over the competition, Graham Hill made up two more places and improved to tenth. He then dueled several rounds with Phil Hill. On lap 12 there was the first retirement of the race: Greene parked his car because of overheating. After Graham Hill had also overtaken Phil Hill, he improved by further places in the following laps. The duels for these positions became more difficult. It took Graham Hill eight laps to overtake Bonnier and another five laps to face McLaren. In the previous laps Surtees had improved to third place, but he was also overtaken by Graham Hill. The duel for victory then changed from lap 37. Graham Hill passed Ireland and was thus directly behind the leading Brabham, behind which Surtees overtook Ireland and was again third. This order lasted until lap 55, when Graham Hill caught up with Brabham and took the lead. During this phase of the race, Salvadori and Fairman retired with technical defects, Daigh's car overheated and Burgess suffered an engine failure. On lap 59, the suspension of Bonnier's car broke and Bianchi's engine failure was also the reason for the failure three laps later.

Graham Hill, who had overtaken the entire field and was leading a Grand Prix that was part of the Automobile World Championship for the first time in his career, held a narrow lead over Brabham in the following laps. On lap 71, six laps before the end of the race, Graham Hill had problems with his brakes. When lapping two cars in front of the “Copse Corner”, he braked and spun off the track. Once again, the unreliability of the BRM P48 was the reason that the team remained without points in a race. The last remaining BRM from Gurney reached the goal, but in tenth place, three laps behind the winner Brabham. Brabham won the fourth race in a row and secured the constructors' championship for Cooper with the fifth win of the season. For the designer it was the second and last design engineer title, at the same time Cooper was the first designer to successfully defend the title. Surtees finished second and in his second race achieved the first podium in the automobile world championship. Lotus thus extended its lead over Ferrari in the constructors' championship to nine points. Both teams still had the chance to finish second in this category. Ireland completed the podium in third place ahead of McLaren and Brooks. Sixth and thus the best Ferrari driver was Graf Berghe von Trips in sixth place. The first ten were completed by Phil Hill, Taylor, Gendebien and Gurney.

In the drivers' standings, Brabham was five points ahead of his team-mate McLaren, Ireland, moving up two places to fourth, tied with Stirling Moss , who was still paused. Brabham broke Ferrari's winning streak at the Silverstone Circuit, which lasted six races, with the win, but neither he nor Cooper won another race on this track. Ferrari won another race at the Silverstone Circuit only decades later, at the 1990 British Grand Prix . Graham Hill drove the fastest lap of the race. This was the first fastest race lap of his career.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Cooper Car Company	01	Jack Brabham	Cooper T53	Climax 2.5 L4	D.
	02	Bruce McLaren
	03	Chuck Daigh	Cooper T51
		Lance Reventlow
Owen Racing Organization	04th	Graham Hill	BRM P48	BRM 2.5 L4	D.
	05	Dan Gurney
	06th	Jo Bonnier
Team Lotus	07th	Innes Ireland	Lotus 18	Climax 2.5 L4	D.
	08th	Jim Clark
	09	John Surtees
Scuderia Ferrari	10	Phil Hill	Ferrari Dino 246F1	Ferrari 2.4 V6	D.
	11	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips
Yeoman Credit Racing Team	12	Tony Brooks	Cooper T51	Climax 2.5 L4	D.
	14th	Olivier Gendebien
	15th	Henry Taylor
Scuderia Centro Sud	16	Masts Gregory	Cooper T51	Maserati 2.5 L4	D.
	17th	Ian Burgess
David Brown Corporation	18th	Roy Salvadori	Aston Martin DBR5	Aston Martin 2.5 L6	D.
	19th	Maurice Trintignant
Scuderia Eugenio Castellotti	21st	Gino Munaron	Cooper T51	Castellotti 2.5 L4	D.
Gilby Engineering	22nd	Keith Greene	Cooper T45	Maserati 2.5 L4	D.
CT Atkins	23	Jack Fairman	Cooper T51	Castellotti 2.5 L4	D.
Fred Tuck Cars	24	Lucien Bianchi	Cooper T51	Climax 2.5 L4	D.
JB Naylor	25th	Brian Naylor	JBW Type 59	Maserati 2.5 L4	D.
Robert Bodle Ltd.	26th	David Piper	Lotus 16	Climax 2.5 L4	D.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	1: 34.6	179.28 km / h	01
02	Graham Hill	BRM	1: 35.6	177.40 km / h	02
03	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	1: 36.0	176.66 km / h	03
04th	Jo Bonnier	BRM	1: 36.2	176.30 km / h	04th
05	Innes Ireland	Lotus Climax	1: 36.2	176.30 km / h	05
06th	Dan Gurney	BRM	1: 36.6	175.57 km / h	06th
07th	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	1: 37.0	174.84 km / h	07th
08th	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	1: 37.0	174.84 km / h	08th
09	Tony Brooks	Cooper-Climax	1: 37.6	173.77 km / h	09
10	Phil Hill	Ferrari	1: 37.8	173.41 km / h	10
11	John Surtees	Lotus Climax	1: 38.6	172.00 km / h	11
12	Olivier Gendebien	Cooper-Climax	1: 39.2	170.96 km / h	12
13	Roy Salvadori	Aston Martin	1: 39.4	170.62 km / h	13
14th	Masts Gregory	Cooper Maserati	1: 39.8	169.94 km / h	14th
15th	Jack Fairman	Cooper-Climax	1: 39.8	169.94 km / h	15th
16	Henry Taylor	Cooper-Climax	1: 40.00	169.60 km / h	16
17th	Lucien Bianchi	Cooper-Climax	1: 40.2	169.26 km / h	17th
18th	Brian Naylor	JBW Maserati	1: 41.2	167.58 km / h	18th
19th	Chuck Daigh	Cooper-Climax	1: 42.4	165.62 km / h	19th
20th	Ian Burgess	Cooper Maserati	1: 42.6	165.30 km / h	20th
21st	Maurice Trintignant	Aston Martin	1: 43.8	163.39 km / h	21st
22nd	Keith Greene	Cooper Maserati	1: 45.8	160.30 km / h	22nd
23	David Piper	Lotus Climax	2: 05.6	135.03 km / h	23
24	Gino Munaron	Cooper-Castellotti	no time		24

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	77		2: 04: 24.6	01	1: 35.0
02	John Surtees	Lotus Climax	77		+ 49.6	11	1: 35.8
03	Innes Ireland	Lotus Climax	77		+1: 29.6	05	1: 35.8
04th	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	76		+ 1 lap	03	1: 36.4
05	Tony Brooks	Cooper-Climax	76		+ 1 lap	09	1: 37.0
06th	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	75		+ 2 rounds	07th	1: 38.0
07th	Phil Hill	Ferrari	75		+ 2 rounds	10	1: 37.2
08th	Henry Taylor	Cooper-Climax	74		+ 3 rounds	16	1: 38.6
09	Olivier Gendebien	Cooper-Climax	74		+ 3 rounds	12	1: 38.8
10	Dan Gurney	Cooper Maserati	74		+ 3 rounds	06th	1: 37.0
11	Maurice Trintignant	Aston Martin	72		+ 5 rounds	21st	1: 41.0
12	David Piper	Lotus Climax	72		+ 5 rounds	23	1: 41.2
13	Brian Naylor	JBW Maserati	72		+ 5 rounds	18th	1: 42.4
14th	Masts Gregory	Cooper Maserati	71		+ 6 rounds	14th	1: 38.8
15th	Gino Munaron	Cooper-Climax	70		+ 7 rounds	24	1: 44.2
16	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	70		+ 7 rounds	08th	1: 36.0
-	Graham Hill	BRM	71		DNF	02	1: 34.4	Lathe operator
-	Lucien Bianchi	Cooper-Climax	62		DNF	17th	1: 40.2	Engine failure
-	Jo Bonnier	BRM	59		DNF	04th	1: 36.8	suspension
-	Ian Burgess	Cooper Maserati	58		DNF	20th	1: 40.0	Engine failure
-	Chuck Daigh	Cooper-Climax	58		DNF	19th	1: 37.8	Overheating
-	Jack Fairman	Cooper-Climax	46		DNF	15th	1: 39.6	Fuel pump
-	Roy Salvadori	Aston Martin	46		DNF	13	1: 39.8	steering
-	Keith Greene	Cooper Maserati	12		DNF	22nd	1: 45.4	Overheating
-	Lance Reventlow	Cooper-Climax	00		DNS			Daigh's car driven in the race

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  Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 32 02  Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 27 03  Stirling Moss Lotus Climax 11 04th  Innes Ireland Lotus Climax 11 05  Olivier Gendebien Cooper-Climax 10 06th  Jim Rathmann Watson-Offenhauser 8th 07th  Phil Hill Ferrari 7th 08th  Cliff Allison Ferrari 6th 09  Rodger Ward Watson-Offenhauser 6th 10  John Surtees Lotus Climax 6th 11  Tony Brooks Cooper-Climax 5 12  Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips Ferrari 5

Item driver constructor Points 13  Graham Hill BRM 4th 14th  Paul Goldsmith Epperly-Offenhauser 4th 15th  Jim Clark Lotus Climax 4th 16  Henry Taylor Cooper-Climax 3 17th  Carlos Menditeguy Cooper Maserati 3 18th  Don Branson Phillips-Offenhauser 3 19th  Jo Bonnier BRM 2 20th  Johnny Thomson Lesovsky-Offenhauser 2 21st  Richie Ginther Ferrari 2 22nd  Eddie Johnson Trevis-Offenhauser 1 23  Lucien Bianchi Cooper-Climax 1 24  Ron Flockhart Lotus Climax 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  cooper 46 02  lotus 25th 03  Ferrari 16 04th  BRM 6th

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: British GP, 1960 at grandprix.com
• Brabham wins as Hill takes the plaudits at en.espnf1.com