1957 Italian Grand Prix

 1957 Italian Grand Prix

Racing data
8th of 8 races in the 1957 World Automobile Championship
Surname:	XXVIII Gran Premio d'Italia
Date:	September 8, 1957
Place:	Monza , Italy
Course:	Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Length:	548.1 km in 87 laps of 6.3 km
Weather:	sunny, dry
Pole position
Driver:	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall
Time:	1: 42.4 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Tony Brooks	Vanwall
Time:	1: 43.7 min
Podium
First:	Stirling Moss	Vanwall
Second:	Juan Manuel Fangio	Maserati
Third:	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari

The 1957 Italian Grand Prix took place on September 8, 1957 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza near Monza and was the eighth race of the 1957 World Cup .

Reports

background

decaying banked curves 2003

Maserati 250F, in service from 1954 to 1960

The season finale of the 1957 Automobile World Championship was held for the last time in Italy, at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza , in the following years the season finale mostly took place on the American continent. Juan Manuel Fangio had already secured the world title, only the fight for second and third place in the drivers' standings was still open.

For the first time, the steep curves of the route were not used for safety reasons. These curves, which are famous for the route, were rarely used and steadily deteriorated in the following decades; the route section was used for the last time at the Italian Grand Prix in 1961 . For Monza, the track layout remained with the long high-speed straights, which were defused over time by additional harassment.

Maserati competed one last time, the team withdrew from Formula 1 after the season for financial reasons. The Maserati 250F was used privately by drivers and teams for three more years , but only slightly further developed. The car was used in Formula 1 races from 1954 to 1960, making it the longest-running Formula 1 car model in motorsport history. Maserati started again with four vehicles, alongside record world champion Fangio, Harry Schell , Jean Behra and Giorgio Scarlatti drove for the Italian team in the final race. Maserati carried out trials with new V12 engines, Behra drove a car with this engine in the race, Fangio decided after training and preferred the conventional engine in his car for the race, which all other Maserati drivers also used.

Ferrari took after the partial waiver of participation in the Grand Prix of Pescara 1957 again with four cars in the race in part, for the Scuderia Ferrari team driver drove Peter Collins , Luigi Musso and Mike Hawthorn , also returned Wolfgang von Trips after a few races hiatus back to the team. As in previous races, the third top team, Vanwall , relied on its driver pairing Stirling Moss , Stuart Lewis-Evans and Tony Brooks . The Scuderia Centro Sud , which was one of the many teams that fielded private Maserati 250Fs, also started with the same driver pairing . Even Paco Godia , Luigi Piotti , Horace Gould , Bruce Halford , Ottorino Volonterio and André Simon drove such a car. Volonterio and Simon competed as a team and shared the car, for both of them it was the last race participation in their careers.

With Fangio and Moss two former winners of the race competed, Fangio won the race three times before, Moss once in the previous year. Ferrari had been successful twice in previous years, Maserati once.

training

During training, the balance of power between the three top teams was clearly distributed. Vanwall had the fastest car and took the top three starting positions with their drivers. The second Vanwall pole position in the 1957 Formula 1 season was achieved by Evans, who started the race from first place for the first time. Moss qualified in second place ahead of Brooks. Since the starting grid was based on a 4-3-4 system, Fangio also started from the first row in the Maserati. For the second row of the grid, Fangio's team-mates Behra and Schell qualified in seventh place ahead of Collins in the best Ferrari. The other Ferrari drivers placed behind Collins, the best driver with a private car was Gregory in eleventh place.

run

Right at the start, the Vanwall showed their superiority, which had already shown in training, and retained the lead that Moss claimed for himself. Behra started very well and worked his way up to second position on the first lap of the race. Moss therefore led in the first laps of the race ahead of Behra, Lewis-Evans, Brooks and Fangio, who separated from the rest of the field as a group of five. On the second lap of the race, Piotti retired with an engine failure.

As Monza was known for its high-speed windshade duels, the lead and positions kept changing. On lap four, Behra overtook Moss, who took first place one lap later, only to hand over the lead to Behra again after this lap. As a result, Fangio overtook both drivers and kept first place on laps seven to ten. These were the final kilometers of the lead for Maserati, the Vanwall were better in this Grand Prix and all three drivers of the team overtook Fangio, with Moss again in the lead. The Vanwall then fought an internal team duel for the lead, Brooks was ahead in laps twelve to 15, Lewis-Evans led for the first time in his career in laps 16 to 20 before Moss finally claimed first place in lap 21 and defended it to the finish line.

The racing phase began from lap 20, which was characterized by failures and technical problems. Brooks fell behind with problems on the accelerator, Lewis-Evans needed a repair pit stop. Moss led ahead of Fangio and Behra, who, however, also pitted to get new tires. Schell, who was now in third position, retired on lap 33 with a defective fuel pump. Just three laps earlier, Bonnier parked his car due to overheating. On lap 46, Halford suffered an engine failure, the same fate befell Lewis-Evans two laps later and Behra's car overheated and forced him to give up. Collins, who was on a podium course for the unsuccessful Ferrari 801 in the last race , had to park his car on lap 61 due to an engine failure. Now Hawthorn took third place, but lost several places in the final laps of the race due to a burst oil pipe.

Moss profited from the failures of the competition and won again. It was the third victory for Vanwall in the Formula 1 season in 1957. Fangio achieved second place, 41 seconds behind Moss, which was his and Maserati's last podium finish. Count Berghe von Trips inherited third place due to the many failures, for him this was the first podium finish in his Formula 1 career and the first for a German driver since the Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1955 , in which Karl Kling reached the podium. Gregory achieved another point placement in fourth place for the Scuderia Centro Sud. Harry Schell, who had taken over the car from his team-mate Scarlatti, completed the points in fifth place, Brooks received one point for driving the fastest lap of the race. The division of points between Schell and Scarlatti was the last of its kind. From the 1958 Automobile World Championship , driver changes were prohibited during the race and there were no more points. However, since there were advantages in changing drivers in certain situations, this practice was still used in isolated cases up to the 1964 US Grand Prix .

In the world championship, Fangio won the world title by a large margin from the competition. With the win, Moss secured the runner-up in the world championship, as in the previous year, Musso was third ahead of Hawthorn and Brooks. Collins, who had given Fangio the driver's title in the last race in the previous year, did not build on the successes in the 1956 Automobile World Championship and was beaten by his teammates in the drivers' championship.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Officine Alfieri Maserati	02	Juan Manuel Fangio	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
				Maserati 2.5 V12
	04th	Harry Schell		Maserati 2.5 L6
	06th	Jean Behra		Maserati 2.5 V12
	08th	Giorgio Scarlatti		Maserati 2.5 L6
		Harry Schell
Francisco Godia-Sales	10	Paco Godia	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
Luigi Piotti	12	Luigi Piotti	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
HH Gould	14th	Horace Gould	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	D.
Bruce Halford	16	Bruce Halford	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	D.
Vandervell Products Ltd	18th	Stirling Moss	Vanwall VW57	Vanwall 2.5 L4	P
	20th	Stuart Lewis-Evans
	22nd	Tony Brooks
Scuderia Centro Sud	24	Jo Bonnier	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
	26th	Masts Gregory
Ottorino Volonterio	28	André Simon	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
		Ottorino Volonterio
Scuderia Ferrari	30th	Peter Collins	Ferrari 801	Ferrari 2.5 V8	E.
	32	Luigi Musso
	34	Mike Hawthorn
	36	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Giorgio Scarlatti drove the car 50 laps, Harry Schell 34 laps.
2. ↑ ^{a b} André Simon drove the car 40 laps, Ottorino Volonterio 33 laps.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall	1: 42.4	221.48 km / h	01
02	Stirling Moss	Vanwall	1: 42.7	220.84 km / h	02
03	Tony Brooks	Vanwall	1: 42.9	220.41 km / h	03
04th	Juan Manuel Fangio	Maserati	1: 43.1	219.98 km / h	04th
05	Jean Behra	Maserati	1: 43.9	218.29 km / h	05
06th	Harry Schell	Maserati	1: 45.1	215.79 km / h	06th
07th	Peter Collins	Ferrari	1: 45.3	215.38 km / h	07th
08th	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	1: 45.5	214.98 km / h	08th
09	Luigi Musso	Ferrari	1: 45.7	214.57 km / h	09
10	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	1: 46.1	213.76 km / h	10
11	Masts Gregory	Maserati	1: 48.9	208.26 km / h	11
12	Giorgio Scarlatti	Maserati	1: 49.2	207.69 km / h	12
13	Jo Bonnier	Maserati	1: 49.7	206.75 km / h	13
14th	Bruce Halford	Maserati	1: 51.6	203.23 km / h	14th
15th	Paco Godia	Maserati	1: 52.2	202.14 km / h	15th
16	André Simon	Maserati	1: 52.8	201.06 km / h	16
17th	Luigi Piotti	Maserati	1: 52.9	200.89 km / h	17th
18th	Horace Gould	Maserati	1: 53.7	199.47 km / h	18th

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Stirling Moss	Vanwall	87		2: 35: 03.9	02
02	Juan Manuel Fangio	Maserati	87		+ 41.2	04th
03	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	85		+ 2 rounds	08th
04th	Masts Gregory	Maserati	84		+ 3 rounds	11
05	Giorgio Scarlatti Harry Schell	Maserati	84		+ 3 rounds	12
06th	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	83		+ 4 rounds	10
07th	Tony Brooks	Vanwall	82		+ 5 rounds	03
08th	Luigi Musso	Ferrari	82		+ 5 rounds	09
09	Paco Godia	Maserati	81		+ 6 rounds	15th
10	Horace Gould	Maserati	78		+ 9 rounds	18th
11	André Simon Ottorino Volonterio	Maserati	73		+ 14 rounds	16
-	Peter Collins	Ferrari	61		DNF	07th		Engine failure
-	Jean Behra	Maserati	49		DNF	05		Overheating
-	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall	48		DNF	01		Engine failure
-	Bruce Halford	Maserati	46		DNF	14th		Engine failure
-	Harry Schell	Maserati	33		DNF	06th		Fuel pump
-	Jo Bonnier	Maserati	30th		DNF	13		Overheating
-	Luigi Piotti	Maserati	02		DNF	17th		Engine failure

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

Item driver constructor Points 01  Juan Manuel Fangio Maserati 40 (46) 02  Stirling Moss Maserati / Vanwall 25th 03  Luigi Musso Ferrari 16 04th  Mike Hawthorn Ferrari 13 05  Tony Brooks Vanwall 11 06th  Masts Gregory Maserati 10 07th  Harry Schell Maserati 10 08th  Sam Hanks Epperly-Offenhauser 8th 09  Peter Collins Ferrari 8th 10  Jim Rathmann Epperly-Offenhauser 7th 11  Jean Behra Maserati 6th

Item driver constructor Points 12  Maurice Trintignant Ferrari 5 13  Stuart Lewis-Evans Connaught-Alta / Vanwall 5 14th  Carlos Menditeguy Maserati 4th 15th  Jimmy Bryan Kuzma-Offenhauser 4th 16  Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips Ferrari 4th 17th  Paul Russo Kurtis Kraft-Novi 3 18th  Andy Linden Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser 2 19th  Roy Salvadori Cooper-Climax 2 20th  Alfonso de Portago Ferrari 1 21st  José Froilán González Ferrari 1 21st  Giorgio Scarlatti Maserati 1

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• GRAND PRIX RESULTS: ITALIAN GP, 1957 at grandprix.com