1960 Italian Grand Prix

 1960 Italian Grand Prix

Racing data
9th of 10 races of the 1960 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	XXXII Gran Premio d'Italia
Date:	4th September 1960
Place:	Monza , Italy
Course:	Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Length:	500 km in 50 laps of 10 km
Weather:	dry, sunny, warm
Pole position
Driver:	Phil Hill	Ferrari
Time:	2: 41.4 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Phil Hill	Ferrari
Time:	2: 43.6 min
Podium
First:	Phil Hill	Ferrari
Second:	Richie Ginther	Ferrari
Third:	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari

The 1960 Italian Grand Prix took place on September 4, 1960 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza near Monza and was the ninth race of the 1960 Automobile World Championship . The Grand Prix also had the FIA ​​honorary title of European Grand Prix .

Reports

background

Jack Brabham - 1960 World Champion (picture from 1966)

After Jack Brabham had won the last five races and Cooper had already been the constructors' world champion with the maximum number of points possible due to the cancellation rule, the rear-engine principle had already fully established itself in the automobile world championship. Ferrari had not yet won a single race of the season, as the Ferrari Dino 246F1, as a front-engined car, only had a chance of victory on high-speed courses. To support Ferrari in their home country, the organizers of the Italian Grand Prix changed the route shortly before the race weekend. Instead of the normal Grand Prix track, it was driven in conjunction with the banked curves to enable even more top speed. The banked turns had not been part of the route since the 1956 Italian Grand Prix . For the smaller British cars, this change meant a high safety risk, as the suspension and construction of the vehicles were not designed for this load. Both Cooper and Lotus and BRM boycotted the race for this reason and did not report any vehicles. Ferrari was also about to be canceled when team boss Enzo Ferrari was refused entry to the pit lane. Shortly before the team left, the situation cleared up and Enzo Ferrari was allowed to enter the pit lane, his team took part in the race.

The boycott left only a few vehicles that were registered for the race. The organizers therefore allowed various Formula 2 teams to participate. At Ferrari, in addition to the two regular drivers Phil Hill and Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips , Willy Mairesse and Richie Ginther also drove for the team, who had previously raced for Scuderia Ferrari. Porsche registered two Porsche 718s for the Grand Prix for the two German drivers Edgar Barth and Hans Herrmann . For both of them it was the only race of the season, Herrmann drove a Porsche in the automobile world championship for the first time. Brian Naylor started again in the JBW he designed , Fred Gamble drove a Behra Porsche . This was also the last time the car was used in a Grand Prix. Many other teams reported private cars. Horace Gould drove an outdated Maserati 250F in his last race . The Scuderia Eugenio Castellotti used three Cooper T51s for Gino Munaron , Giorgio Scarlatti and Giulio Cabianca . It was the last race for the team as well as for Munaron and Cabianca, Cabianca died the following year during test drives for the team, three other people were killed in this accident. For Scarlatti it was the last race for Cooper, he switched to De Tomaso the following season . In addition, the Scuderia Centro Sud used a Cooper T51, all other teams used older Cooper models. The driver was Alfonso Thiele , who drove his debut race. The drivers Fred Gamble, Arthur Owen and Piero Drogo contested the only Grand Prix of their careers. Vic Wilson made his debut, but was not registered again for a race until 1966 .

The boycott meant that Brabham teammate Bruce McLaren had no way of scoring points. Brabham won the title early and defended it as the third driver after Alberto Ascari and Juan Manuel Fangio . This was the last title a driver won on a Cooper. In 1966 Brabham was again world champion. With the boycott in Monza, McLaren secured second place in the drivers' championship in 1960, only the duel for third place was still open between several drivers.

No former winner took part in the Italian Grand Prix; Ferrari and Maserati had previously been victorious twice in the constructors' category, Cooper once.

training

The training dominated Ferrari due to lack of competition. Three drivers of the team reached the first three starting positions and were more than five seconds ahead of the competition. Hill was the fastest of the three drivers and achieved the first pole position of his career. Ginther was second on the grid, ahead of teammate Mairesse. Count Berghe von Trips qualified in sixth place, although he drove a less powerful Ferrari Formula 2 car. Cabianca and Scarlatti finished fourth and fifth for Scuderia Eugenio Castellotti, with Naylor seventh. Two more Cooper from Munaron and Thiele as well as Herrmann's Porsche completed the first ten.

run

In the race, the Ferrari drivers drove safely at the top and dominated the competition. Ginther won the starting duel against Hill and took the lead for the first time in his career. Mairesse was behind them. On the first lap, Owen had an accident due to a brake defect. Gould, the only driver in the field with a Maserati, did not take part in the race because of a defective fuel line.

The lead over the competition grew with every lap, so that the Ferrari team management decided to also support the fourth Ferrari, the Formula 2 car owned by Graf Berghe von Trips. In addition, Mairesse dropped a team order so that he could give Graf Berghe von Trips enough slipstream to gain some distance from the Porsche drivers. After this succeeded, Mairesse drove faster again, overtook Cabianca and finished third again. On lap 16, Hill overtook Ginther and took the lead, but Ginther countered a lap later. Again Ginther stayed in the lead for several laps until Hill overtook him on lap 26 and held the lead until the end of the race. During this phase of the race, Wilson, Scarlatti and Munaron retired with engine failure. At Thiele and Naylor, defective gearboxes were the reason for the premature end of the race.

Hill won the race by more than two minutes ahead of Ginther and one lap ahead of Mairesse, which together took all Ferrari podiums. For Hill it was the first victory of his career, for Ferrari the only win of the season. Since Hill also drove the fastest race lap, he scored a triple. At the same time, this was the last victory of a front-engined car in the World Automobile Championship. Ferrari suspended the last race of the season and also entered a rear-engined car in 1961. Ginther was on the podium for the first time in his Formula 1 career, Mairesse the only time. Hill won the Italian Grand Prix in a Ferrari the following season. Cabianca reached fourth place, the only point placement for him in the automobile world championship. Graf Berghe von Trips crossed the finish line in fifth ahead of the two drivers of the Porsche works team. Herrmann finished sixth ahead of his team-mate Barth. In addition, Drogo, Seidel and Gamble reached the goal. Herrmann was last in the points at the 1955 Grand Prix of Argentina ; at the Italian Grand Prix in 1960 he succeeded for the last time in his career.

In the drivers' championship, Hill improved to third place thanks to the win and was three points ahead of Innes Ireland and four points ahead of Stirling Moss before the last race of the season . In the constructors' championship, Ferrari came within two points of Lotus. Here Cooper was established as constructors' world champion, BRM in fourth place. Since Ferrari did not take part in the season finale, the US Grand Prix in 1960 , places two and three had already been decided.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Scuderia Eugenio Castellotti	02	Giulio Cabianca	Cooper T51	Castellotti 2.5 L4	D.
	04th	Gino Munaron
	36	Giorgio Scarlatti		Maserati 2.5 L4
JB Naylor	06th	Brian Naylor	JBW Type 59	Maserati 2.5 L4	D.
Arthur Owen	08th	Arthur Owen	Cooper T45	Climax 2.2 L4	D.
Wolfgang Seidel	10	Wolfgang Seidel	Cooper T45	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Scuderia Colonia	12	Piero Drogo	Cooper T43	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
HH Gould	14th	Horace Gould	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	D.
Ferrari	16	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari Dino 246F1	Ferrari 2.4 V6	D.
	18th	Richie Ginther
	20th	Phil Hill
	22nd	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari Dino 246P	Ferrari 1.5 V6
Dr. Ing.F. Porsche KG	24	Edgar Barth	Porsche 718	Porsche 1.5 B4	D.
	26th	Hans Herrmann
Camoradi International	28	Fred Gamble	Behra-Porsche	Porsche 1.5 B4	D.
Equipe Prideaux / Dick Gibson	30th	Vic Wilson	Cooper T43	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Scuderia Centro Sud	34	Alfonso Thiele	Cooper T51	Maserati 2.5 L4	D.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Phil Hill	Ferrari	2: 41.4	223.05 km / h	01
02	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	2: 43.3	220.45 km / h	02
03	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	2: 43.9	219.65 km / h	03
04th	Giulio Cabianca	Cooper-Castellotti	2: 49.3	212.64 km / h	04th
05	Giorgio Scarlatti	Cooper Maserati	2: 49.7	212.14 km / h	05
06th	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	2: 51.9	209.42 km / h	06th
07th	Brian Naylor	JBW Maserati	2: 52.4	208.82 km / h	07th
08th	Gino Munaron	Cooper-Castellotti	2: 53.1	207.97 km / h	08th
09	Alfonso Thiele	Cooper Maserati	2: 55.6	205.01 km / h	09
10	Hans Herrmann	Porsche	2: 58.3	201.91 km / h	10
11	Arthur Owen	Cooper-Climax	3: 01.5	198.35 km / h	11
12	Edgar Barth	Porsche	3: 02.1	197.69 km / h	12
13	Wolfgang Seidel	Cooper-Climax	3: 07.0	192.51 km / h	13
14th	Fred Gamble	Behra-Porsche	3: 10.6	188.88 km / h	14th
15th	Piero Drogo	Cooper-Climax	3: 11.9	187.60 km / h	15th
16	Vic Wilson	Cooper-Climax	3: 16.5	183.21 km / h	16
17th	Horace Gould	Maserati	no time		17th

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Phil Hill	Ferrari	50		2: 21: 09.2	01	2: 43.6
02	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	50		+ 2: 27.6	02	2: 43.7
03	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	49		+ 1 lap	03	2: 45.3
04th	Giulio Cabianca	Cooper-Castellotti	48		+ 2 rounds	04th	2: 49.6
05	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	48		+ 2 rounds	06th	2: 51.7
06th	Hans Herrmann	Porsche	47		+ 3 rounds	10	2: 56.3
07th	Edgar Barth	Porsche	47		+ 3 rounds	12	2: 55.9
08th	Piero Drogo	Cooper-Climax	45		+ 5 rounds	15th	3: 05.3
09	Wolfgang Seidel	Cooper-Climax	44		+ 6 rounds	13	3: 04.3
10	Fred Gamble	Behra-Porsche	41		+ 9 rounds	14th	3: 04.2
-	Brian Naylor	JBW Maserati	41		DNF	07th	2: 53.3	transmission
-	Alfonso Thiele	Cooper Maserati	32		DNF	09	2: 52.9	transmission
-	Gino Munaron	Cooper-Castellotti	26th		DNF	08th	2: 51.8	Engine failure
-	Giorgio Scarlatti	Cooper Maserati	26th		DNF	05	2: 50.2	Engine failure
-	Vic Wilson	Cooper-Climax	23		DNF	16	3: 14.6	Engine failure
-	Arthur Owen	Cooper-Climax	00		DNF	11		Brakes / accident
-	Horace Gould	Maserati	00		DNS	17th		Fuel line

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 40 02  Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 33 03  Phil Hill Ferrari 15th 04th  Innes Ireland Lotus Climax 12 05  Stirling Moss Lotus Climax 11 06th  Olivier Gendebien Cooper-Climax 10 07th  Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips Ferrari 10 08th  Jim Rathmann Watson-Offenhauser 8th 09  Richie Ginther Ferrari 8th 10  Jim Clark Lotus Climax 8th 11  Tony Brooks Cooper-Climax 7th 12  Cliff Allison Ferrari 6th 13  Rodger Ward Watson-Offenhauser 6th 14th  John Surtees Lotus Climax 6th

Item driver constructor Points 15th  Graham Hill BRM 4th 16  Paul Goldsmith Epperly-Offenhauser 4th 17th  Willy Mairesse Ferrari 4th 18th  Henry Taylor Cooper-Climax 3 19th  Carlos Menditeguy Cooper Maserati 3 20th  Don Branson Phillips-Offenhauser 3 21st  Giulio Cabianca Cooper-Castellotti 3 22nd  Jo Bonnier BRM 2 23  Johnny Thomson Lesovsky-Offenhauser 2 24  Eddie Johnson Trevis-Offenhauser 1 25th  Lucien Bianchi Cooper-Climax 1 26th  Ron Flockhart Lotus Climax 1 27  Hans Herrmann Porsche 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  cooper 48 (57) 02  lotus 28 (29) 03  Ferrari 26 (27) 04th  BRM 6th 05  Porsche 1

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: Italian GP, ​​1960 at grandprix.com
• Hill nets first for America but Brabham is crowned Champion at en.espnf1.com