1959 Monaco Grand Prix
Racing data | ||
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1st of 9 races of the 1959 World Automobile Championship | ||
Surname: | XVII Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco | |
Date: | May 10, 1959 | |
Place: | Monte Carlo , Monaco | |
Course: | Circuit de Monaco | |
Length: | 314.5 km in 100 laps of 3.145 km
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Weather: | sunny, dry, hot | |
Pole position | ||
Driver: | Stirling Moss | Cooper-Climax |
Time: | 1: 39.6 min | |
Fastest lap | ||
Driver: | Jack Brabham | Cooper-Climax |
Time: | 1: 40.4 min | |
Podium | ||
First: | Jack Brabham | Cooper-Climax |
Second: | Tony Brooks | Ferrari |
Third: | Maurice Trintignant | Cooper-Climax |
The 1959 Monaco Grand Prix took place on May 10, 1959 on the Circuit de Monaco near Monte Carlo and was the first race of the 1959 World Automobile Championship .
Reports
background
After the resignation of Juan Manuel Fangio and the fatal car accident of Mike Hawthorn , Formula 1 started again for the first time after the World Cup in 1950 without a reigning or former world champion in the field. This circumstance did not occur again until the 1994 Formula 1 World Championship . Vanwall had partially withdrawn from Formula 1 after the fatal accident of Stuart Lewis-Evans and only started in the 1959 Grand Prix of Great Britain . Tony Brooks then switched to Ferrari . Scuderia Ferrari had lost many drivers to accidents in the previous two years, which is why they were forced to reorganize in 1959. In addition to Brooks, they brought in Jean Behra from BRM and Cliff Allison from Lotus . Phil Hill got a regular cockpit at Ferrari after sporadic races and two podium places in the previous year. A further developed Ferrari Dino 246F1 was used as the car .
Cooper split from Roy Salvadori , but extended Jack Brabham's contract . Brabham's new teammates were Bruce McLaren and Masten Gregory . The team’s new car was the Cooper T51 , which, compared to Ferrari, was rear-engined, much lighter but less powerful. BRM started the new season with Harry Schell , Jo Bonnier and Ron Flockhart , while Graham Hill and Pete Lovely drove for Lotus , who was trying to qualify for a Grand Prix for the first time in his career.
Porsche entered two vehicles for the 1959 Monaco Grand Prix, but this was the team's only race participation of the season. The drivers were Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips and Maria Teresa de Filippis . For de Filippis, the only woman in the field, it was the last attempt to qualify for a race.
In previous years, the Maserati 250F was the most widely used car by private drivers. This changed at the beginning of the Formula 1 season in 1959, when seven drivers drove a private Cooper. The Rob Walker Racing Team started with Stirling Moss and Maurice Trintignant , both with a Cooper T51-Climax, but Moss also tested a Cooper T51 with a BRM engine in practice. Lucien Bianchi made his Formula 1 debut in a private Cooper T51, Alain de Changy and Jean Lucienbonnet each drove their only race, Lucienbonnet using the older Cooper T45 . Ivor Bueb drove for British Racing Partnership in a Cooper T51, Roy Salvadori tried to qualify in a Cooper T45 with a Maserati engine. Other drivers with private cars were Bruce Halford in a Lotus, as well as Giorgio Scarlatti in a Maserati and André Testut in a Maserati in his last Grand Prix.
Maserati had previously won the race twice, Ferrari and Cooper once each, Moss won once among the drivers and Trintignant twice. The Monaco Grand Prix was the first time in history, first in a Formula 1 season after most of in previous years Grand Prix of Argentina was the first race, the Grand Prix in 1959 but paused. Several non-World Championship grands prix took place weeks before, Moss won the Glover Trophy in Goodwood with Cooper, Brabham won the BRDC International Trophy in Silverstone with Cooper and Behra won the Ferrari in Aintree . This indicated a duel between Cooper and Ferrari before the start of the season, which was to determine the 1959 Formula 1 season. This duel was also the duel between the front engine concept and the rear engine concept, which influenced the basic structure of a Formula 1 car for the next few decades.
training
In training for the 1959 Monaco Grand Prix, the Cooper works team, Ferrari and the Rob Walker Racing Team dueled for pole position . Moss drove the fastest practice lap and secured the first pole position for the new Cooper T51 in its debut race. He was four tenths of a second faster than the runner-up Behra in the Ferrari. Brabham qualified in third place ahead of Ferrari drivers Brooks and Phil Hill. Moss' team-mate Trintignant completed the top group in sixth place.
The BRM and other Cooper drivers qualified in the midfield. Bonnier reached starting position seven ahead of Salvadori in a Cooper-Maserati. Bonnier's teammates were behind and completed the top ten. Of the top teams, Allison qualified for Ferrari, Graf Berghe von Trips for Porsche, Graham Hill for Lotus and both teammates from Brabham. Halford also made it to the starting grid with his private Lotus.
For safety reasons, only the best 16 drivers were allowed to compete in the 1959 Monaco Grand Prix, all others were eliminated from practice. This concerned Bueb, Scarlatti, Bianchi, Changy, de Filippis, Lovely, Lucienbonnet and Testut.
run
Ferrari driver Behra won the starting duel, leading the first laps in front of Moss and Brabham. On the first lap of the race there was an accident in the back field, in which Graf Berghe von Trips, Halford and Allison collided. This accident ended the race for all three drivers, as well as for Porsche. In addition, Gregory retired on lap six with a gearbox failure.
Since hardly any overtaking maneuvers were possible on the narrow street circuit in Monte Carlo, the race decision was made due to failures and driving errors. Behra held the lead until lap 22 when his engine started to fail. First Moss overtook Behra, then Brabham passed him until he finally gave up the race on lap 24. Graham Hill had previously retired due to a fire on his Lotus. From lap 24, Moss led the race ahead of Brabham and Phil Hill, who spun several times, however, and fell behind Schell and Brooks. Two Cooper T51s were at the head of the field in front of a BRM, but BRM started a series of failures on lap 45, which affected all of their cars. First Bonnier parked his car with defective brakes, then Schell had an accident and on lap 64 the brakes also failed at Flockhart. BRM therefore left the first race of the season without points and without reaching the finish line.
On lap 81, Moss pitted with power transmission problems. Attempts were made to repair the damage, so Moss drove back on the track, but his car had to park one lap later anyway. This was the first time in his career that Brabham, who had been runner-up, took the lead in a Formula 1 race, which he did not give up until he crossed the finish line. Brabham thus became the first Australian Grand Prix winner, and it was also the first victory for the Cooper works team. Brabham also outbid on lap 83, Moss' fastest race lap that Moss had set up just three laps earlier. This also gave him one point for the fastest race lap. Brooks crossed the finish line in second place, Trintignant completed the podium in third place. While Brooks was only 20 seconds short of victory, Trintignant was already two laps behind the leaders. Another lap back, Phil Hill reached fourth place despite various spins, and fifth was McLaren, who got his first points. Salvadori finished sixth, no other cars reached the finish.
In the drivers 'championship, Brabham led for the first time in his career ahead of Brooks and Trintignant, in the constructors' championship only Ferrari and Cooper scored points. The 1959 Monaco Grand Prix was Brabham's only win on the racetrack, for Cooper it was the second of a total of three wins at this Grand Prix.
Registration list
Classifications
Starting grid
Item | driver | constructor | time | Ø speed | begin |
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1 | Stirling Moss | Cooper-Climax | 1: 39.6 | 113.67 km / h | 1 |
2 | Jean Behra | Ferrari | 1: 40.0 | 113.22 km / h | 2 |
3 | Jack Brabham | Cooper-Climax | 1: 40.1 | 113.11 km / h | 3 |
4th | Tony Brooks | Ferrari | 1: 41.0 | 112.10 km / h | 4th |
5 | Phil Hill | Ferrari | 1: 41.3 | 111.77 km / h | 5 |
6th | Maurice Trintignant | Cooper-Climax | 1: 41.7 | 111.33 km / h | 6th |
7th | Jo Bonnier | BRM | 1: 42.3 | 110.67 km / h | 7th |
8th | Roy Salvadori | Cooper Maserati | 1: 42.4 | 110.57 km / h | 8th |
9 | Harry Schell | BRM | 1: 43.0 | 109.92 km / h | 9 |
10 | Ron Flockhart | BRM | 1: 43.1 | 109.82 km / h | 10 |
11 | Masts Gregory | Cooper-Climax | 1: 43.2 | 109.71 km / h | 11 |
12 | Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips | Porsche | 1: 43.8 | 109.08 km / h | 12 |
13 | Bruce McLaren | Cooper-Climax | 1: 43.9 | 108.97 km / h | 13 |
14th | Graham Hill | Lotus Climax | 1: 43.9 | 108.97 km / h | 14th |
15th | Cliff Allison | Ferrari | 1: 44.78 | 108.05 km / h | 15th |
16 | Bruce Halford | Lotus Climax | 1: 44.8 | 108.03 km / h | 16 |
17th | Ivor Bueb | Cooper-Climax | 1: 44.9 | 107.93 km / h | DNQ |
18th | Giorgio Scarlatti | Maserati | 1: 45.0 | 107.83 km / h | DNQ |
19th | Lucien Bianchi | Cooper-Climax | 1: 45.4 | 107.42 km / h | DNQ |
20th | Alain de Changy | Cooper-Climax | 1: 45.4 | 107.42 km / h | DNQ |
21st | Maria Teresa de Filippis | Porsche | 1: 47.8 | 105.03 km / h | DNQ |
22nd | Pete Lovely | Lotus Climax | 1: 47.9 | 104.93 km / h | DNQ |
23 | Jean Lucienbonnet | Cooper-Climax | 1: 50.9 | 102.09 km / h | DNQ |
24 | André Testut | Maserati | 1: 59.1 | 95.06 km / h | DNQ |
run
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
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1 | Jack Brabham | Cooper-Climax | 100 | 2: 55: 51.3 | 3 | 1: 40.4 | ||
2 | Tony Brooks | Ferrari | 100 | + 20.4 | 4th | 1: 42.5 | ||
3 | Maurice Trintignant | Cooper-Climax | 98 | + 2 rounds | 6th | 1: 44.4 | ||
4th | Phil Hill | Ferrari | 97 | + 3 rounds | 5 | 1: 44.2 | ||
5 | Bruce McLaren | Cooper-Climax | 96 | + 4 rounds | 13 | 1: 44.4 | ||
6th | Roy Salvadori | Cooper Maserati | 83 | + 17 rounds | 8th | 1: 43.7 | ||
- | Stirling Moss | Cooper-Climax | 81 | DNF | 1 | 1: 42.3 | Power transmission | |
- | Ron Flockhart | BRM | 64 | DNF | 10 | 1: 45.7 | Brakes / turners | |
- | Harry Schell | BRM | 48 | DNF | 9 | 1: 44.0 | accident | |
- | Jo Bonnier | BRM | 45 | DNF | 7th | 1: 45.0 | Brakes | |
- | Jean Behra | Ferrari | 24 | DNF | 2 | 1: 43.6 | Engine failure | |
- | Graham Hill | Lotus Climax | 21st | DNF | 14th | 1: 46.8 | Fire | |
- | Masts Gregory | Cooper-Climax | 6th | DNF | 11 | 1: 49.1 | transmission | |
- | Cliff Allison | Ferrari | 1 | DNF | 15th | 2: 02.1 | accident | |
- | Bruce Halford | Lotus Climax | 1 | DNF | 16 | 2: 02.7 | accident | |
- | Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips | Porsche | 1 | DNF | 12 | 2: 01.0 | accident |
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 five best results from nine 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
- Brabham win heralds a new era at espn1.com
- Grand Prix Results: Monaco GP, 1959 at grandprix.com