1957 Italian Grand Prix
Racing data | ||
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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
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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
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
Remarks
- ↑ a b Giorgio Scarlatti drove the car 50 laps, Harry Schell 34 laps.
- ↑ a b André Simon drove the car 40 laps, Ottorino Volonterio 33 laps.
Classifications
Starting grid
Item | driver | constructor | time | Ø speed | begin |
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1 | Stuart Lewis-Evans | Vanwall | 1: 42.4 | 221.48 km / h | 1 |
2 | Stirling Moss | Vanwall | 1: 42.7 | 220.84 km / h | 2 |
3 | Tony Brooks | Vanwall | 1: 42.9 | 220.41 km / h | 3 |
4th | Juan Manuel Fangio | Maserati | 1: 43.1 | 219.98 km / h | 4th |
5 | Jean Behra | Maserati | 1: 43.9 | 218.29 km / h | 5 |
6th | Harry Schell | Maserati | 1: 45.1 | 215.79 km / h | 6th |
7th | Peter Collins | Ferrari | 1: 45.3 | 215.38 km / h | 7th |
8th | Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips | Ferrari | 1: 45.5 | 214.98 km / h | 8th |
9 | Luigi Musso | Ferrari | 1: 45.7 | 214.57 km / h | 9 |
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 |
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1 | Stirling Moss | Vanwall | 87 | 2: 35: 03.9 | 2 | |||
2 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Maserati | 87 | + 41.2 | 4th | |||
3 | Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips | Ferrari | 85 | + 2 rounds | 8th | |||
4th | Masts Gregory | Maserati | 84 | + 3 rounds | 11 | |||
5 |
Giorgio Scarlatti Harry Schell |
Maserati | 84 | + 3 rounds | 12 | |||
6th | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | 83 | + 4 rounds | 10 | |||
7th | Tony Brooks | Vanwall | 82 | + 5 rounds | 3 | |||
8th | Luigi Musso | Ferrari | 82 | + 5 rounds | 9 | |||
9 | 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 | 7th | Engine failure | ||
- | Jean Behra | Maserati | 49 | DNF | 5 | Overheating | ||
- | Stuart Lewis-Evans | Vanwall | 48 | DNF | 1 | Engine failure | ||
- | Bruce Halford | Maserati | 46 | DNF | 14th | Engine failure | ||
- | Harry Schell | Maserati | 33 | DNF | 6th | Fuel pump | ||
- | Jo Bonnier | Maserati | 30th | DNF | 13 | Overheating | ||
- | Luigi Piotti | Maserati | 2 | 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
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Web links
- Results at motorsportarchiv.de
- Photos at f1-facts.com
- GRAND PRIX RESULTS: ITALIAN GP, 1957 at grandprix.com