1960 Monaco Grand Prix

 1960 Monaco Grand Prix

Racing data
2nd of 10 races of the 1960 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	XVIII Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco
Date:	May 29, 1960
Place:	Monte Carlo , Monaco
Course:	Circuit de Monaco
Length:	314.5 km in 100 laps of 3.145 km
Weather:	cloudy, wet
Pole position
Driver:	Stirling Moss	Lotus Climax
Time:	1: 36.3 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax
Time:	1: 36.2 min
Podium
First:	Stirling Moss	Lotus Climax
Second:	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax
Third:	Phil Hill	Ferrari

The 1960 Monaco Grand Prix took place on May 29, 1960 on the Circuit de Monaco near Monte Carlo and was the second race of the 1960 World Automobile Championship .

Reports

background

Scarab Type 1 debut

First race of the BRM P48

Debut race of the 1964 world champion - John Surtees

Richie Ginther's debut race (picture from 1966)

Lotus 18, Stirling Moss' winning car at the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix

Debut race of the Cooper T53 (Jack Brabham at the Dutch Grand Prix 1960)

The Monaco Grand Prix took place a few months after the season opener, the 1960 Argentina Grand Prix , and the break was used by many teams to finish developing their new car. With its three drivers, BRM used the new BRM P48 , an identical further development of the BRM P25 with the only major difference that the engine was positioned behind the driver. Like its predecessor, the car remained very unreliable and only a few points were achieved during the season. In addition to Graham Hill and Jo Bonnier , BRM signed Dan Gurney as a new regular driver, who drove for the team until the end of the season. Cooper-Climax used the new Cooper T53 for the first time in the 1960 automobile world championship . The car was a further development of the Cooper T51 , had a more powerful engine and, thanks to its flatter, narrower and more streamlined shape, was more competitive on high-speed routes than its predecessor. Lotus used the Lotus 18 , which made its debut at the season opener, with all of its drivers. In addition to Innes Ireland and Alan Stacey , a third car was used. John Surtees , later world champion of the 1964 automobile world championship, made his debut in the automobile world championship and drove his first race for Lotus. Even Ferrari tried to switch from the front engine to rear engine and developed a special version of the Ferrari Dino 246F1 , the 246P . A Cooper was bought for the conversion and tried to transfer some design concepts to the Ferrari Dino 246. The car was driven by Richie Ginther on its only appearance , the later Grand Prix winner also made his debut at the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix. The Cooper, bought by Ferrari, was driven in the race by Giorgio Scarlatti . Other Ferrari drivers in the front-engined Ferrari Dino 246 were Cliff Allison , Phil Hill and Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips . This was Allison's last race for Ferrari. Due to a serious training accident, he was injured for the rest of the season and drove a Lotus again the following year.

With Scarab , a new team entered the automobile world championship, the car had a front engine and was used in some races in 1960. The two drivers Chuck Daigh and Lance Reventlow each drove their first Formula 1 race. Many drivers tried to qualify for the race in private cars. The Rob Walker Racing Team drove with Stirling Moss , but changed the vehicle. Instead of a Cooper T51 , a new Lotus 18 was driven from this race . Moss was also registered for Scarab, but decided to do the training and the race for the RRC Walker Racing Team. As in the previous year, Brian Naylor drove his JBW Type 1 , all other of these drivers drove the Cooper T51. Bruce Halford drove for Fred Tuck Cars , Roy Salvadori for High Efficiency Motors . The Yeoman Credit Racing Team signed the vice world champion in 1959, Tony Brooks and debutant Chris Bristow . Giorgio Scarlatti and Gino Munaron shared a car, Scuderia Centro Sud drove with masts Gregory , Maurice Trintignant and Ian Burgess .

With Trintignant, Moss and Brabham, three former winners of the race took part in the Grand Prix, Ferrari won once among the designers and Cooper in the two previous years. Bruce McLaren led the drivers' championship ahead of Allison and Carlos Menditéguy . In the constructors' championship, Cooper was ahead of Ferrari and Lotus. While all the other teams used Dunlop tires, Scarab used Goodyear tires. This was the debut of the manufacturer Goodyear in the automobile world championship, which in the following decades became one of the most successful tire manufacturers in Formula 1 and was represented in Formula 1 until the 1997 Formula 1 World Championship .

training

Moss dominated the training again and was a second faster than the runner-up Jack Brabham on Cooper. This was the fifth pole position in a row for Moss and the first for the designer Lotus. The second row of the grid was occupied by the Yeoman Credit Racing Team, Brooks qualified in third place ahead of his teammate Bristow. The BRM of Bonnier and Graham Hill started behind. Drivers of the Lotus works team finished in seventh, 13th and 15th place, Gurney on Cooper finished 14th and McLaren 11th.

For Ferrari, there was a deterioration in the performance of their car during training. Graf Berghe qualified eighth in front of his teammates Ginther and Phil Hill. The rear-engined Ferrari 246P was therefore no faster than the front-engined version. The training session was overshadowed by a serious accident, Allison collided with the barriers made of straw bales and was taken unconscious to a local hospital. He survived his life-threatening injuries and was racing again in the automobile world championship a year later. For Ferrari, however, the accident meant the further loss of a team member. In previous years, Ferrari had repeatedly had serious accidents with breaks in injuries or with fatal outcomes, which forced Ferrari to change the line-up of drivers.

For safety reasons, the starting field for the Monaco Grand Prix was limited to 16 starting positions, which is why some drivers were not allowed to take part in the race. In addition to the drivers already mentioned, Salvadori and Trintignant also qualified for the race; Munaron, Halford, Allison, Naylor, Gregory, Daigh, Scarlatti, Reventlow and Burgess did not qualify.

run

Bonnier won the starting duel. He took the lead of the race ahead of Brabham and Moss. Behind them Brooks and Bristow dueled for fourth place. It was generally difficult to overtake in Monaco, but the superiority of the Lotus on this circuit gave Moss the opportunity to overtake. On the fifth lap of the race, Moss overtook Brabham and was back in second position, after which he needed a few laps to catch up with Bonnier, which he passed on lap 17. Trintignant, meanwhile, retired on lap four with a gearbox failure, while Bristow retired on lap 17 with the same defect on his debut race. Surtees also did not see the checkered flag in his first race. He turned off his Lotus in the same lap. Other vehicles from Cooper and Lotus had technical defects in the following laps. Stacey retired from Lotus, Salvadori retired from Cooper due to overheating of the engine. Of the ten remaining cars on the route, others subsequently failed. However, since the drivers had covered more than half the race distance, they were still classified. Even Gurney, who retired after 48 laps of the race, was ranked tenth, 52 laps behind.

While Moss was leading in front of Bonnier, the reigning world champion Brabham was involved in a position battle with Bonnier behind. Brabham overtook Bonnier on lap 20, who countered on lap 27. Then there was a change in weather and it started to rain. Brabham benefited from the changed weather and overtook both Bonnier and Moss on lap 33. Brooks in fourth place spun on a wet road, but avoided touching the track barrier and continued the race losing some positions. McLaren and Phil Hill then dueled for fourth place. Brabham also spun off the track on lap 40 and hit the wall in Sainte Devote . He was then pushed by the marshals in order to be able to continue the race, which led to a subsequent disqualification, as this type of outside help was prohibited. This again led Moss to lead Bonnier, McLaren and Phil Hill. Gurney, Ireland and Graf Berghe von Trips also parked their cars with defects, but were still classified in the rankings.

On the sixtieth lap of the race, Moss pitted to have his car repaired, which his team succeeded in doing. He came back on the track behind Phil Hill and then overtook all the drivers positioned in front of him. Bonnier lost his second place to a gearbox failure, putting Moss ahead of McLaren and Phil Hill. When Graham Hill had an accident on lap 66, there were only four drivers left on the track. Gurney and Bonnier, who had already retired, took advantage of this to take their damaged cars out on the track again, as positions five and six still brought points.

Moss won the race and clinched the first victory for the designer Lotus. He won the Monaco Grand Prix for the second time after 1956 ; further victories followed for Lotus in the following decades on this route. McLaren finished second, set the fastest race lap and extended its lead in the drivers' standings. With 14 points he was after two races of the season ahead of Moss with eight points and Allison with 6 points. In the constructors' championship, Cooper kept the lead from Ferrari, Lotus came just one point closer to Ferrari in third. Phil Hill completed the podium in third place, Brooks was fourth, one lap behind. Bonnier and Gurney were also classified with their damaged cars and received points for fifth and sixth. For Ginther, this was the first point in the debut race.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Reventlow Automobiles Inc.	00	Stirling Moss	Scarab Type 1	Scarab 2.4 L4	G
	46	Chuck Daigh
	48	Lance Reventlow
Owen Racing Organization	02	Jo Bonnier	BRM P48	BRM 2.5 L4	D.
	04th	Dan Gurney
	06th	Graham Hill
Cooper Car Company	08th	Jack Brabham	Cooper T53	Climax 2.5 L4	D.
	10	Bruce McLaren
Fred Tuck Cars	12	Bruce Halford	Cooper T51	Climax 2.5 L4	D.
High efficiency motors	14th	Roy Salvadori	Cooper T51	Climax 2.5 L4	D.
Yeoman Credit Racing Team	16	Chris Bristow	Cooper T51	Climax 2.5 L4	D.
	18th	Tony Brooks
JB Naylor	20th	Brian Naylor	JBW Type 1	Maserati 2.5 L4	D.
Team Lotus	22nd	Innes Ireland	Lotus 18	Climax 2.5 L4	D.
	24	Alan Stacey
	26th	John Surtees
RRC Walker Racing Team	28	Stirling Moss	Lotus 18	Climax 2.5 L4	D.
Scuderia Eugenio Castellotti	30th	Giorgio Scarlatti	Cooper T51	Castellotti 2.5 L4	D.
		Gino Munaron
Scuderia Ferrari	32	Cliff Allison	Ferrari Dino 246F1	Ferrari 2.4 V6	D.
	34	Richie Ginther	Ferrari Dino 246P
	36	Phil Hill	Ferrari Dino 256F1
	38	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips
Scuderia Centro Sud	40	Masts Gregory	Cooper T51	Maserati 2.5 L4	D.
	42	Ian Burgess
	44	Maurice Trintignant

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Giorgio Scarlatti and Gino Munaron were registered for the Cooper with the starting number 30, Scarlatti drove the car in practice, but did not qualify for the race.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Stirling Moss	Lotus Climax	1: 36.3	117.57 km / h	01
02	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	1: 37.3	116.36 km / h	02
03	Tony Brooks	Cooper-Climax	1: 37.7	115.89 km / h	03
04th	Chris Bristow	Cooper-Climax	1: 37.7	115.89 km / h	04th
05	Jo Bonnier	BRM	1: 37.7	115.89 km / h	05
06th	Graham Hill	BRM	1: 38.0	115.53 km / h	06th
07th	Innes Ireland	Lotus Climax	1: 38.2	115.30 km / h	07th
08th	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	1: 38.3	115.18 km / h	08th
09	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	1: 38.6	114.83 km / h	09
10	Phil Hill	Ferrari	1: 38.6	114.83 km / h	10
11	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	1: 38.6	139.44 km / h	11
12	Roy Salvadori	Cooper-Climax	1: 38.7	114.71 km / h	12
13	Alan Stacey	Lotus Climax	1: 38.9	114.48 km / h	13
14th	Dan Gurney	BRM	1: 38.9	114.48 km / h	14th
15th	John Surtees	Lotus Climax	1: 39.0	114.36 km / h	15th
16	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper Maserati	1: 39.1	114.25 km / h	16
DNQ	Bruce Halford	Cooper-Climax	1: 39.6	113.67 km / h	-
DNQ	Cliff Allison	Ferrari	1: 39.7	113.56 km / h	-
DNQ	Brian Naylor	JBW	1: 40.3	112.88 km / h	-
DNQ	Masts Gregory	Cooper Maserati	1: 41.6	111.44 km / h	-
DNQ	Chuck Daigh	Scarab	1: 46.7	106.11 km / h	-
DNQ	Giorgio Scarlatti	Cooper-Castellotti	1: 47.4	105.42 km / h	-
DNQ	Lance Reventlow	Scarab	1: 48.5	104.35 km / h	-
DNQ	Ian Burgess	Cooper Maserati	1: 49.1	103.78 km / h	-
DNQ	Gino Munaron	Cooper-Castellotti	no time		-

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Stirling Moss	Lotus Climax	100		2: 53: 45.5	01	1: 36.4
02	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	100		+ 52.1	11	1: 36.2
03	Phil Hill	Ferrari	100		+1: 01.9	10	1: 37.6
04th	Tony Brooks	Cooper-Climax	99		+ 1 lap	03	1: 37.8
05	Jo Bonnier	BRM	83		+ 17 rounds	05	1: 37.8
06th	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	70		+ 30 rounds	09	1: 36.9
07th	Graham Hill	BRM	66		+ 34 laps	06th	1: 36.6
08th	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	61		+ 39 laps	08th	1: 37.8
09	Innes Ireland	Lotus Climax	56		+ 44 laps	07th	1: 36.3
10	Dan Gurney	BRM	48		+ 52 laps	14th	1: 38.7
-	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	40		DSQ	02	1: 37.9	been pushed
-	Roy Salvadori	Cooper-Climax	29		DNF	12	1: 38.8	Overheating
-	Alan Stacey	Lotus Climax	23		DNF	13	1: 39.5	Engine suspension
-	Chris Bristow	Cooper-Climax	17th		DNF	04th	1: 38.2	transmission
-	John Surtees	Lotus Climax	17th		DNF	15th	1: 39.0	Power transmission
-	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper Maserati	04th		DNF	16	1: 43.4	transmission

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  Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 14th 02  Stirling Moss Lotus Climax 8th 03  Cliff Allison Ferrari 6th 04th  Phil Hill Ferrari 4th 05  Carlos Menditeguy Cooper Maserati 3 06th  Tony Brooks Cooper-Climax 3 07th  Jo Bonnier BRM 2 08th  Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips Ferrari 2 09  Innes Ireland Lotus Climax 1 10  Richie Ginther Ferrari 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  cooper 14th 02  Ferrari 10 03  lotus 9 04th  BRM 2

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: Monaco GP, 1960 at grandprix.com