1958 Italian Grand Prix
Racing data | ||
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10th of 11 races of the 1958 World Automobile Championship | ||
Surname: | XXIX Gran Premio d'Italia | |
Date: | September 7, 1958 | |
Place: | Monza , Italy | |
Course: | Autodromo Nazionale Monza | |
Length: | 441 km in 70 laps of 6.3 km
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Weather: | sunny, dry | |
Pole position | ||
Driver: | Stirling Moss | Vanwall |
Time: | 1: 40.5 min | |
Fastest lap | ||
Driver: | Phil Hill | Ferrari |
Time: | 1: 42.9 min | |
Podium | ||
First: | Tony Brooks | Vanwall |
Second: | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari |
Third: | Phil Hill | Ferrari |
The 1958 Italian Grand Prix took place on September 7, 1958 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza near Monza and was the tenth race of the 1958 World Cup .
Reports
background
The 1958 Italian Grand Prix was the penultimate race of the 1958 Formula 1 season, with both driver and constructor world championships still open. Vanwall and Ferrari were the dominant teams in the last few races and in the championship the two top drivers of these teams, Mike Hawthorn and Stirling Moss , dueled for the drivers' title.
Moss won the 1956 Italian Grand Prix and the 1957 Italian Grand Prix in the two previous years . Moss was the only participating former winner of the Grand Prix, Vanwall won once before, Maserati and Ferrari twice each.
At the home race, Ferrari again put several vehicles to the start. After only two Ferrari drivers had started at the Portuguese Grand Prix in 1958 , there were four cars here. In addition to Hawthorn and Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips , Phil Hill and Olivier Gendebien returned to Scuderia Ferrari.
Another change in the line-up of the top teams was at BRM Jo Bonnier , who previously mostly drove in private Maserati 250Fs , switched to the British team. His teammates were Jean Behra and Harry Schell . Maurice Trintignant drove again for the Rob Walker Racing Team , he had two cars at his disposal, a Cooper T43 and a Cooper T45 . Many drivers qualified for the race with private Maserati 250Fs, Giulio Cabianca and Hans Herrmann for the Bonnier team, Masten Gregory and Carroll Shelby for Temple Buell , Gerino Gerini for the Scuderia Centro Sud and Maria Teresa de Filippis with her own team. For Cabianca, the 1958 Italian Grand Prix was the first race of his career for which he qualified after failing at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix . De Filippis, on the other hand, qualified for a race for the last time.
In the drivers' championship, Hawthorn was four points ahead of Moss in two remaining races. Due to the cancellation rules, Hawthorn needed a placement with more than one point, Moss with more than two points in order to improve in the drivers' standings, because only the five best placements counted. It was also very close in the constructors' championship, Vanwall only had one point more than Ferrari.
training
During training for the Italian Grand Prix in 1958, Vanwall prevailed against Ferrari and took the first two starting positions. Moss drove the fastest lap and achieved his third pole position of the season. For Vanwall it was the fifth pole position in 1958 and at the same time the last in team history. Tony Brooks qualified in second place .
Hawthorn qualified in third place ahead of another Vanwall rider, Stuart Lewis-Evans . The three places behind were filled by the remaining Ferrari drivers, behind which BRM positioned itself in places eight to ten. In midfield, Gregory drove a strong training session and with his Maserati, which was outdated and uncompetitive at the time, surpassed the Cooper and Lotus drivers, who were inferior to the more powerful motorized cars on the high-speed Monza track.
run
The best start was Phil Hill, who improved from seventh on the grid to second before the first corner. Moss won the starting duel, but later on the first lap of the race he was overtaken by Phil Hill, who thus took the lead in a Formula 1 race for the first time in his career.
A serious accident occurred in the rear field in which Count Berghe von Trips and Schell collided. The Ferrari overturned and Count Berghe von Trips was thrown out of the car. A rose bush slowed the impact on the ground, but von Trips broke his leg and fell out of the last race of the season. Schell was unharmed. Another starting accident occurred between Gendebien and Cooper driver Jack Brabham . Brabham was eliminated immediately, Gendebien four laps later with a suspension damage. In addition, only a few laps after the start, Shelby and Gerini had to give up the race with defective cars.
Meanwhile, Hawthorn overtook Lewis-Evans and then driver title contender Moss. In the team-internal Ferrari duel, he prevailed against Phil Hill in round five and took the lead. Phil Hill was having trouble with the tires at this point, so Moss and Lewis-Evans overtook him too. This led to an exciting duel for victory between the two drivers who were competing for the title in the drivers' world championship. Hawthorn held first place for two laps, then Moss drove two laps in the lead before Hawthorn overtook him again on lap nine, but one lap later Moss was leading again. Hawthorn countered on lap 15 when the duel was decided by transmission problems at Moss. Moss fell back and was eliminated on lap 17. Previously, Bonnier retired on lap 14 with no power transmission, and there was a fire on his BRM, which meant that only one BRM was left in the race. For Trintignant, too, the race was over after a gearbox damage.
Halfway through the race, Vanwall saw a setback in the fight for the title, Lewis-Evans' car overheated on lap 30, leaving only Brooks in the race for Vanwall. At the front, Hawthorn and Phil Hill, who had fought his way back to the top, dueled again. Hill took the lead on lap 35 after Hawthorn was in the pits to change tires, but gave it back to Hawthorn, who covered the final kilometers of his career in Formula 1, with a tire change pit stop of his own three laps later.
The high number of retirements in the race continued. Herrmann and Cabianca suffered engine damage, the last remaining BRM from Behra retired with a defective clutch and de Filippis had a connecting rod damage to their Maserati on lap 57. Then both Lotus drivers and Roy Salvadori retired from Cooper. However, all three were still rated. In total, there were only four vehicles left in the race, which made the 1958 Italian Grand Prix one of the races with the fewest finishes.
Brooks, who held back at the beginning of the race, attacked towards the end of the race and continuously narrowed the gap to the two Ferraris. Ten laps before the end of the race he was within striking distance and on lap 61 he was already in the lead, which he defended until he crossed the finish line. This was Brooks' third win of the 1958 Formula 1 season, the fifth win of the season for Vanwall and also the third in a row. Hawthorn extended his lead in the drivers' standings with second place, Phil Hill achieved the first podium of his career with third place. He also drove the fastest race lap, also for the first time. Shelby came in fourth in the Maserati that had taken over Gregory's car during the race. Since driver swaps were no longer allowed from the 1958 Formula 1 season, both drivers were disqualified. The disqualification was later reversed, but neither driver received any points for fourth place. For fifth position, Salvadori still received points despite having retired, as he had completed a certain part of the race distance.
In the drivers' standings, Hawthorn increased his lead over Moss to eight points. This meant, including the cancellation of the results, that Moss should have won the last race of the season and Hawthorn should have been third at most for Moss to have become world champion. Because Hawthorn could only improve his score with a win or a second place. If Moss didn't win, Hawthorn would automatically have been world champion.
In the constructors' championship, Vanwall came close to Ferrari on absolute points, who had two points more. Due to the cancellation of results regulation - only the five best races of a respective constructor counted - Vanwall already had the constructors title. Vanwall was the first designer to win the newly introduced title; However, it remained the constructor's only title win, as the racing team withdrew completely from Formula 1 at the end of the season.
Registration list
Remarks
Classifications
Starting grid
Item | driver | constructor | time | Ø speed | begin |
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1 | Stirling Moss | Vanwall | 1: 40.5 | 225.67 km / h | 1 |
2 | Tony Brooks | Vanwall | 1: 41.2 | 224.11 km / h | 2 |
3 | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | 1: 41.8 | 222.79 km / h | 3 |
4th | Stuart Lewis-Evans | Vanwall | 1: 42.4 | 221.48 km / h | 4th |
5 | Olivier Gendebien | Ferrari | 1: 42.5 | 221.27 km / h | 5 |
6th | Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips | Ferrari | 1: 42.7 | 220.84 km / h | 6th |
7th | Phil Hill | Ferrari | 1: 42.7 | 220.84 km / h | 7th |
8th | Jean Behra | BRM | 1: 43.2 | 219.77 km / h | 8th |
9 | Harry Schell | BRM | 1: 43.2 | 219.77 km / h | 9 |
10 | Jo Bonnier | BRM | 1: 44.7 | 216.62 km / h | 10 |
11 | Masts Gregory | Maserati | 1: 44.9 | 216.21 km / h | 11 |
12 | Graham Hill | Lotus Climax | 1: 46.0 | 213.96 km / h | 12 |
13 | Maurice Trintignant | Cooper-Climax | 1: 46.4 | 213.16 km / h | 13 |
14th | Roy Salvadori | Cooper-Climax | 1: 47.0 | 211.96 km / h | 14th |
15th | Jack Brabham | Cooper-Climax | 1: 47.3 | 211.37 km / h | 15th |
16 | Cliff Allison | Lotus Climax | 1: 47.8 | 210.39 km / h | 16 |
17th | Carroll Shelby | Maserati | 1: 48.0 | 210.0 km / h | 17th |
18th | Hans Herrmann | Maserati | 1: 49.8 | 206.56 km / h | 18th |
19th | Gerino Gerini | Maserati | 1: 50.1 | 205.99 km / h | 19th |
20th | Giulio Cabianca | Maserati | 1: 54.6 | 197.91 km / h | 20th |
21st | Maria Teresa de Filippis | Maserati | 1: 55.9 | 195.69 km / h | 21st |
run
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
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1 | Tony Brooks | Vanwall | 70 | 2: 03: 47.8 | 2 | |||
2 | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | 70 | + 24.2 | 3 | |||
3 | Phil Hill | Ferrari | 70 | + 28.3 | 7th | 1: 42.9 | ||
4th |
Masts Gregory Carroll Shelby |
Maserati | 69 | + 1 lap | 11 | |||
5 | Roy Salvadori | Cooper-Climax | 62 | + 8 rounds | 14th | |||
6th | Graham Hill | Lotus Climax | 62 | + 8 rounds | 12 | |||
7th | Cliff Allison | Lotus Climax | 61 | + 9 rounds | 16 | |||
- | Maria Teresa de Filippis | Maserati | 57 | DNF | 21st | Connecting rod damage | ||
- | Giulio Cabianca | Maserati | 51 | DNF | 20th | Engine failure | ||
- | Jean Behra | BRM | 42 | DNF | 8th | coupling | ||
- | Hans Herrmann | Maserati | 32 | DNF | 18th | Engine failure | ||
- | Stuart Lewis-Evans | Vanwall | 30th | DNF | 4th | Overheating | ||
- | Maurice Trintignant | Cooper-Climax | 24 | DNF | 13 | transmission | ||
- | Stirling Moss | Vanwall | 17th | DNF | 1 | transmission | ||
- | Jo Bonnier | BRM | 14th | DNF | 10 | Power transmission / fire | ||
- | Olivier Gendebien | Ferrari | 4th | DNF | 5 | suspension | ||
- | Gerino Gerini | Maserati | 2 | DNF | 19th | mechnical defect | ||
- | Carroll Shelby | Maserati | 1 | DNF | 17th | Engine failure | ||
- | Harry Schell | BRM | 0 | DNF | 9 | accident | ||
- | Jack Brabham | Cooper-Climax | 0 | DNF | 15th | accident | ||
- | Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips | Ferrari | 0 | DNF | 6th | accident |
World Cup stands after the race
The top 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
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Constructors' championship
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Web links
- Results at motorsportarchiv.de
- Photos at f1-facts.com
- Grand Prix Results: Italian GP, 1958 at grandprix.com