1958 Monaco Grand Prix

 1958 Monaco Grand Prix

Racing data
2nd of 11 races in the 1958 World Automobile Championship
Surname:	XVI Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco
Date:	May 18, 1958
Place:	Monte Carlo , Monaco
Course:	Circuit de Monaco
Length:	314.5 km in 100 laps of 3.145 km
Weather:	sunny, dry
Pole position
Driver:	Tony Brooks	Vanwall
Time:	1: 39.8 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari
Time:	1: 40.6 min
Podium
First:	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper-Climax
Second:	Luigi Musso	Ferrari
Third:	Peter Collins	Ferrari

The 1958 Monaco Grand Prix took place on May 18, 1958 on the Circuit de Monaco near Monte Carlo and was the second race of the 1958 World Automobile Championship .

Reports

background

Lotus 12 - debut of one of the most successful teams in Formula 1 history

Debut of the later two-time world champion Graham Hill (1969)

A 2007 Rob Walker T45 in Donington

After only 10 drivers and a works team took part in the season opener, the 1958 Argentina Grand Prix , the field of participants at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix increased significantly and some drivers drove their debut races. In the run up to the second race of the season three non-member of the World Championship Grand Prix took place, Mike Hawthorn won for Ferrari the Glover Trophy at Goodwood, Luigi Musso also won for Ferrari Grand Prix Syrakuse and Stirling Moss repeated the success of the season opener in Argentina and won in Aintree in a Cooper Climax .

Ferrari registered four vehicles for the Monaco Grand Prix, in addition to the regular drivers Hawthorn, Musso and Peter Collins , Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips again competed . The Cooper works team returned to Formula 1 and, as in the previous year, drove with the driver pairing Jack Brabham and Roy Salvadori . The team launched the new car for the first time, the Cooper T45 replacing the Cooper T43 from the previous year. In addition, the team let the drivers drive with different engines, while Brabham got a 2.2-liter engine, Salvadori drove the weaker 2.0-liter engine.

After Moss, who was victorious in the opening race, started for Vanwall again , the Rob Walker Racing Team relied on the new driver pairing Maurice Trintignant and Ron Flockhart . The new Cooper T45 was used for Trintignant, while Flockhart was allowed to drive the old Cooper T43. As in the previous year, Moss drove alongside Tony Brooks and Stuart Lewis-Evans at Vanwall . The car used was the new Vanwall VW 57 , a further development of the previous year's Vanwall VW 55 .

BRM also returned to Formula 1 and competed with Jean Behra and Harry Schell , who were still under contract with Maserati the previous year and who switched to BRM after this team left. Another British team made its Formula 1 debut at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, Lotus started with the Lotus 12 for the first time . Graham Hill and Cliff Allison started for the team in their respective first races. Hill was twice world champion in 1962 and 1968 and held the record for most Grand Prix participations for decades. Like Cooper, Lotus did without a specially designed engine in their car and used Climax units of the FPF type .

OSCA joined another British team after a five-year hiatus, racing an OSCA F2 for Giulio Cabianca and an OSCA Sports Car for Luigi Piotti . For the team this was the only Grand Prix participation in the Formula 1 season in 1958, for Cabianca the first Formula 1 race of his career, and for Piotti the final Grand Prix. Bernie Ecclestone , who later became Formula 1 boss went with his own team as a driver at the start and sat two Connaught Type B one. For him it was the first of two Formula 1 races, his teammate Bruce Kessler , with whom he shared a car, drove his only race, Paul Emery his second and last.

In addition, several drivers with private Maserati 250Fs were registered for the race . Jo Bonnier , Giorgio Scarlatti and Paco Godia competed with their own teams. With Maria Teresa de Filippis , a woman tried for the first time to qualify for a Formula 1 race, Gerino Gerini and Horace Gould drove for Scuderia Centro Sud and Ken Kavanagh shared his car with Luigi Taramazzo . Both drivers made their debut, this was the only Grand Prix participation for Taramazzo. Louis Chiron tried one last time to qualify for a race and with this attempt became the oldest driver in Formula 1 history. Like so many other drivers, his team-mate André Testut drove in Formula 1 for the first time in this race.

In the drivers 'standings, Moss was just ahead of Musso and Hawthorn, while in the constructors' standings Cooper was ahead of Ferrari and Maserati. With Moss and Trintignant, two former winners took part in the race, Ferrari was previously successful once.

training

The training for the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix was a duel between the British teams Vanwall, BRM and Cooper, which Tony Brooks won on Vanwall, he was the only driver who stayed below the time of 1: 40.0. Brooks achieved the first pole position of his career and since he had a second advantage over the time of the runner-up, he showed the competitiveness of the new Vanwall VW 57, but this remained Brooks only pole position in the Formula 1 season 1958. Position two went to Behra in the BRM, who qualified just ahead of the Cooper from Brabham and Salvadori. For Cooper, too, the car achieved a significant increase in performance with positions three to five. Trintignant qualified in this place in the private Cooper T45, which was used by the Rob Walker Racing Team. Ferrari lost contact with the British top teams in this training session, Hawthorn qualified as the best Ferrari driver in sixth place, Collins reached ninth position, Musso started from ten and Graf Berghe von Trips started the race from twelve. The top 10 were completed by Lewis-Evans in seventh and Moss in eighth.

For safety reasons, the field of drivers that entered the race was limited to a maximum of 16 vehicles. 14 drivers were eliminated in training if their times were not enough for the top 16. From the established teams, all drivers made the qualification and Lotus also put both cars on the grid on their debut, Allison in 13th and Hill in 15th. The last two free places were occupied by Scarlatti and Bonnier.

However, the entire team from Ecclestone, Scuderia Centro Sud, and OSCA, as well as Flockhart in the old Cooper T43, the car that won the previous race, did not qualify for the race. In addition, Godia, Chiron, Taramazzo, Kavanagh, Testut and the first woman in the field, de Filippis, did not qualify for the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix. Ecclestone handed his helmet over to Les Leston during practice and let it go. After Leston had driven a time sufficient to qualify, the fraud was recognized and Ecclestone's time set by Leston was not counted. Leston was also not allowed to take part in the race because he was not on the official entry list.

run

Salvadori, who had started from fourth place, briefly took the lead at the start, then braked too late and collided with another car after coming too far out in the first corner. He then pitted for a repair pit stop and fell back. Behra took the lead over the race in the BRM and set himself apart from his opponents. Brooks was second behind Behra, ahead of Brabham and Moss.

By lap eight Hawthorn passed Moss and then Brabham and was third behind Brooks. The Vanwall got problems with their engines in the next laps, first Lewis-Evans retired with an overheated engine on lap 11, then Brooks followed him on lap 21 with an engine failure, so that only Moss was in the race for Vanwall. Hawthorn benefited from Brooks' retirement and was second on lap 22 behind leader Behra. The series of failures continued over the next few laps, first Scarlatti suffered an engine failure, then Behra also retired due to brake defects, whereby Hawthorn inherited the lead. He defended this first place in the following laps against Moss, who had caught up with him, and in lap 33 Moss passed Hawthorn to take the lead. However, the duel between the two for victory was ended a few laps later by further technical defects. First Moss, like his teammate Brooks, suffered an engine failure, then Hawthorn retired with a defective fuel pump. Thus the race was over for Vanwall, none of the three cars reached the finish, although Moss was six laps ahead and had a chance of victory.

After several drivers had retired while in the lead, Trintignant was in first place in the new Cooper T45 and, like Moss, defended himself in the Ferrari against Musso in the season opener. In his debut race in the first race for Team Lotus, Hill was fourth and dueled with Collins for a podium when the half-wave broke on his car on lap 69. Cooper driver Salvadori also retired a few laps earlier with a broken half-wave. Bonnier had an accident on lap 71, and Graf Berghe von Trips also suffered an engine failure on lap 91, which meant that the failure rate in this race was very high, with only six cars reaching the finish.

Ferrari drivers Musso and Collins came closer to Trintignant in the final laps, but did not catch up with him. Trintignant won the race, which was his second and last victory in Formula 1, with a 20 second lead over Musso, and he achieved both successes at the Monaco Grand Prix. For Cooper and the Rob Walker Racing Team it was the second victory in a row and the competition recognized that the smaller, smaller mid-engined cars, contrary to expectations, were competitive and capable of winning.

Musso and Collins completed the podium for Ferrari, whereby Musso took the lead in the drivers' championship without having won a race. Only after him did Lorenzo Bandini manage to do this again in the 1966 World Automobile Championship . However, this was the last podium finish for Musso, he had a fatal accident three races later at the 1958 French Grand Prix . Brabham reached fourth position, three laps behind, and thus the first point placement of his career, Schell achieved fifth, nine laps behind. Allison reached the first finish for a Lotus in sixth place, 13 laps behind.

After the race, Musso led the drivers' standings from Moss and Trintignant, Hawthorn and Collins were fourth and fifth. In the constructors' championship, Cooper increased the lead over Ferrari and Maserati, BRM was fourth thanks to Schell's fifth place.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Francis Godia-Sales	04th	Paco Godia	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
Owen Racing Organization	06th	Jean Behra	BRM P25	BRM 2.5 L4	D.
	08th	Harry Schell			P
BC Ecclestone	12	Bernie Ecclestone	Connaught Type B	Alta 2.5 L4	A.
		Bruce Kessler
	14th	Paul Emery
Cooper Car Company	16	Jack Brabham	Cooper T45	Climax 2.2 L4	D.
	18th	Roy Salvadori		Climax 2.0 L4
RRC Walker Racing Team	20th	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper T45	Climax 2.0 L4	D.
	22nd	Ron Flockhart	Cooper T43
Team Lotus	24	Cliff Allison	Lotus 12	Climax 2.0 L4	D.
	26th	Graham Hill
Vandervell Products Ltd	28	Stirling Moss	Vanwall VW57	Vanwall 2.5 L4	D.
	30th	Tony Brooks
	32	Stuart Lewis-Evans
Scuderia Ferrari	34	Luigi Musso	Ferrari Dino 246F1	Ferrari 2.4 V6	E.
	36	Peter Collins
	38	Mike Hawthorn
	40	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips
Scuderia Centro Sud	42	Horace Gould	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	D.
	48	Gerino Gerini
Maria Teresa de Filippis	44	Maria Teresa de Filippis	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
Giorgio Scarlatti	46	Giorgio Scarlatti	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
Ken Kavanagh	50	Luigi Taramazzo	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
		Ken Kavanagh
Automobili OSCA	52	Giulio Cabianca	Osca F2	Osca 1.5 L4
	54	Luigi Piotti
André Testut	56	André Testut	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P
		Louis Chiron
Jo Bonnier	08th	Jo Bonnier	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	P

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Both drivers drove the car in training.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Both drivers drove the car in training.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Both drivers drove the car in training.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Tony Brooks	Vanwall	1: 39.8	113.45 km / h	01
02	Jean Behra	BRM	1: 40.8	112.32 km / h	02
03	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	1: 41.0	112.10 km / h	03
04th	Roy Salvadori	Cooper-Climax	1: 41.0	112.10 km / h	04th
05	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper-Climax	1: 41.1	111.99 km / h	05
06th	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	1: 41.5	111.55 km / h	06th
07th	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall	1: 41.8	111.22 km / h	07th
08th	Stirling Moss	Vanwall	1: 42.3	110.67 km / h	08th
09	Peter Collins	Ferrari	1: 42.4	110.57 km / h	09
10	Luigi Musso	Ferrari	1: 42.6	110.35 km / h	10
11	Harry Schell	BRM	1: 43.8	109.08 km / h	11
12	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	1: 44.3	108.55 km / h	12
13	Cliff Allison	Lotus Climax	1: 44.6	108.24 km / h	13
14th	Giorgio Scarlatti	Maserati	1: 44.7	108.14 km / h	14th
15th	Graham Hill	Lotus Climax	1: 45.0	107.83 km / h	15th
16	Jo Bonnier	Maserati	1: 45.0	107.83 km / h	16
17th	Ron Flockhart	Cooper-Climax	1: 45.9	106.91 km / h	DNQ
18th	Ken Kavanagh	Maserati	1: 49.0	103.87 km / h	DNQ
19th	Gerino Gerini	Maserati	1: 49.8	103.11 km / h	DNQ
20th	Bruce Kessler	Connaught-Alta	1: 50.5	102.46 km / h	DNQ
21st	Paul Emery	Connaught-Alta	1: 50.8	102.18 km / h	DNQ
22nd	Maria Teresa de Filippis	Maserati	1: 50.8	102.18 km / h	DNQ
23	André Testut	Maserati	1: 51.4	101.63 km / h	DNQ
24	Giulio Cabianca	Osca	1: 52.0	101.09 km / h	DNQ
25th	Luigi Piotti	Osca	1: 52.4	100.73 km / h	DNQ
26th	Horace Gould	Maserati	1: 54.0	99.32 km / h	DNQ
27	Paco Godia	Maserati	no time		DNQ
28	Louis Chiron	Maserati	no time		DNQ
29	Luigi Taramazzo	Maserati	no time		DNQ
30th	Bernie Ecclestone	Connaught-Alta	no time		DNQ

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper-Climax	100		2: 52: 27.9	05
02	Luigi Musso	Ferrari	100		+ 20.2	10
03	Peter Collins	Ferrari	100		+ 38.8	09
04th	Jack Brabham	Maserati	97		+ 3 rounds	03
05	Harry Schell	BRM	91		+ 9 rounds	11
06th	Cliff Allison	Lotus Climax	90		+ 10 rounds	13
-	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	91		DNF	12		Engine failure
-	Jo Bonnier	Maserati	71		DNF	16		accident
-	Graham Hill	Lotus Climax	69		DNF	15th		Half wave
-	Roy Salvadori	Cooper-Climax	55		DNF	04th		Half wave
-	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	45		DNF	06th		Fuel pump
-	Stirling Moss	Vanwall	37		DNF	08th		Engine failure
-	Jean Behra	BRM	27		DNF	02		Brakes
-	Giorgio Scarlatti	Maserati	26th		DNF	14th		Engine failure
-	Tony Brooks	Vanwall	21st		DNF	01		Engine failure
-	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall	11		DNF	07th		Overheating

World Cup stands 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 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

Item driver constructor Points 01  Luigi Musso Ferrari 12 02  Stirling Moss Cooper-Climax 8th 03  Maurice Trintignant Cooper-Climax 8th 04th  Mike Hawthorn Ferrari 5 05  Juan Manuel Fangio Maserati 4th 06th  Peter Collins Ferrari 4th 07th  Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 3 08th  Jean Behra Maserati 2 09  Harry Schell BRM 2

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Cooper-Climax 16 02  Ferrari 12 03  Maserati 3 04th  BRM 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GP Stories - The Races of 1958 In: motorsport-magazin.com , accessed on November 1, 2013.

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• GRAND PRIX RESULTS: MONACO GP, 1958 at grandprix.com