1960 Monaco Grand Prix
Racing data | ||
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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
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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
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
- Remarks
- ↑ 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 |
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1 | Stirling Moss | Lotus Climax | 1: 36.3 | 117.57 km / h | 1 |
2 | Jack Brabham | Cooper-Climax | 1: 37.3 | 116.36 km / h | 2 |
3 | Tony Brooks | Cooper-Climax | 1: 37.7 | 115.89 km / h | 3 |
4th | Chris Bristow | Cooper-Climax | 1: 37.7 | 115.89 km / h | 4th |
5 | Jo Bonnier | BRM | 1: 37.7 | 115.89 km / h | 5 |
6th | Graham Hill | BRM | 1: 38.0 | 115.53 km / h | 6th |
7th | Innes Ireland | Lotus Climax | 1: 38.2 | 115.30 km / h | 7th |
8th | Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips | Ferrari | 1: 38.3 | 115.18 km / h | 8th |
9 | Richie Ginther | Ferrari | 1: 38.6 | 114.83 km / h | 9 |
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 |
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1 | Stirling Moss | Lotus Climax | 100 | 2: 53: 45.5 | 1 | 1: 36.4 | ||
2 | Bruce McLaren | Cooper-Climax | 100 | + 52.1 | 11 | 1: 36.2 | ||
3 | Phil Hill | Ferrari | 100 | +1: 01.9 | 10 | 1: 37.6 | ||
4th | Tony Brooks | Cooper-Climax | 99 | + 1 lap | 3 | 1: 37.8 | ||
5 | Jo Bonnier | BRM | 83 | + 17 rounds | 5 | 1: 37.8 | ||
6th | Richie Ginther | Ferrari | 70 | + 30 rounds | 9 | 1: 36.9 | ||
7th | Graham Hill | BRM | 66 | + 34 laps | 6th | 1: 36.6 | ||
8th | Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips | Ferrari | 61 | + 39 laps | 8th | 1: 37.8 | ||
9 | Innes Ireland | Lotus Climax | 56 | + 44 laps | 7th | 1: 36.3 | ||
10 | Dan Gurney | BRM | 48 | + 52 laps | 14th | 1: 38.7 | ||
- | Jack Brabham | Cooper-Climax | 40 | DSQ | 2 | 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 | 4th | 1: 38.2 | transmission | |
- | John Surtees | Lotus Climax | 17th | DNF | 15th | 1: 39.0 | Power transmission | |
- | Maurice Trintignant | Cooper Maserati | 4th | 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
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Constructors' championship
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Web links
- Results at motorsportarchiv.de
- Photos at f1-facts.com
- Grand Prix Results: Monaco GP, 1960 at grandprix.com