1954 Spanish Grand Prix
Racing data | ||
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9th of 9 races in the 1954 World Automobile Championship | ||
Surname: | XII Gran Premio de España | |
Date: | October 24, 1954 | |
Place: | Barcelona , Spain | |
Course: | Circuit de Pedralbes | |
Length: | 505.28 km in 80 laps of 6.316 km
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Weather: | sunny, dry | |
Pole position | ||
Driver: | Alberto Ascari | Lancia |
Time: | 2: 18.1 min | |
Fastest lap | ||
Driver: | Alberto Ascari | Lancia |
Time: | 2: 20.4 min | |
Podium | ||
First: | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari |
Second: | Luigi Musso | Maserati |
Third: | Juan Manuel Fangio | Mercedes |
The 1954 Spanish Grand Prix took place on October 24th at the Circuit de Pedralbes near Barcelona and was the ninth race of the 1954 World Cup .
Reports
background
The Spanish Grand Prix was held again in 1954 for the second time in Formula 1 history after a two-year break. At the 1951 Spanish Grand Prix , Fangio won his first driver's world championship. Another Grand Prix was planned for the Circuit de Pedralbes in 1955 , but was canceled as a result of the 1955 Le Mans disaster . Afterwards there was never another Formula 1 race on this racetrack. The next Spanish Grand Prix was not held again until 1967, now on the Circuito del Jarama .
At the season finale in 1954, the world championship title for Juan Manuel Fangio and the runner-up world championship for his Argentinian compatriot José Froilán González had already been decided. Only third place in the drivers' standings was still open between the British Mike Hawthorn and the French Maurice Trintignant .
Fangio has already won six of the previous eight races this season and was the favorite at the start. In the previous races the dominance of the Mercedes team , which won a large part of the races, was evident , but Ferrari and Maserati kept up well with Mercedes in the previous races, but due to their lack of reliability and the lack of top speed of their cars, none won.
The Spanish Grand Prix brought Lancia's long-awaited debut in Formula 1. The Lancia D50 differed from the other Formula 1 cars in that it had a rather simple shape and eye-catching side pods.
They served as fuel tanks and as an aerodynamic aid for the constant evacuation of air between the tires. Lancia was the first team to use the side pods as an aerodynamic aid and was ahead of the Mercedes in this regard. Compared to the competition, the V8 engine of the Lancia D50 was built into the car as a load-bearing part of the overall structure, which gave the car additional stability. Former world champion Alberto Ascari and his Italian compatriot Luigi Villoresi drove for the team .
Maserati started with five vehicles, Ferrari and Gordini only had two cars each, Ferrari did not use a car for González. Furthermore, many private teams and drivers with private cars took part in the race. The Swiss Ottorino Volonterio drove his first Formula 1 race, Prince Bira and Jacques Swaters ended their Formula 1 careers after the race. The 1954 Spanish Grand Prix was the last race in which a driver from Thailand took part (as of July 8, 2013).
training
Training for the 1954 Spanish Grand Prix was dominated by the new Lancia team. Ascari drove the fastest lap in the Lancia D50 with 2: 18.1 minutes and was thus one second faster than the second-placed Fangio in the Mercedes. The first two positions on the starting grid were held by the two-time world champions of that time, which promised an exciting race. Third place went to Hawthorn in a Ferrari, fourth place to Harry Schell in a private Maserati. Schell was the only driver with a private car who achieved a good starting position. All other starting positions were occupied by the four top teams Lancia, Mercedes, Ferrari and Maserati from pole position to 13th place. Gordini disappointed again with Jacques Pollet's starting position 16 . Peter Collins in Vanwall had an accident during training and was unable to take part in the race.
run
At the start, Schell and Trintignant got away the best and won several positions. Schell fought for the lead from Hawthorn, Ascari and Trintignant and led a race for the first time in his career. However, he started the race with the tanks only half full. After just one lap, Villoresi, the first Lancia, was eliminated due to braking problems, while Ascari recaptured the lead in the second Lancia. He then led the field in a superior manner, but retired on lap nine with a damaged clutch. Schell was now leading again in front of the two Ferrari drivers Trintignant and Hawthorn. The pressure from the two faster pursuers forced Schell into a driving error a few laps later. Schell drove on, but fell back to fourth place behind Fangio. Trintignant was now in the lead, also for the first time in his career, but retired only a short time later due to technical difficulties. Stirling Moss and both Gordini drivers suffered the same fate at this stage of the race. The race had a high failure rate, of 21 cars that started only 9 made it to the finish. As in the previous races, more than half of the drivers dropped out and reliability was the key criterion when deciding on first places. One of the reasons for the high failure rate was newspapers flying around and clogging the air inlets of many cars.
In the final laps of the race, Hawthorn and Fangio battled it out for victory. But Fangio had to drive more slowly because of oil penetrating into the cockpit and fell back. Hawthorn then won safely, won his second of three races and secured third place in the drivers' championship. However, he did not extend his Ferrari contract after the race and temporarily withdrew from Formula 1. He later returned and won the 1958 world championship with Ferrari.
In the final phase, Fangio had to struggle with overheating problems due to the oil loss and was overtaken by Maserati driver Luigi Musso towards the end of the race, who won the first points of his career and achieved his first podium. For Fangio, the 1954 Spanish Grand Prix was the only race of his successful career in which he finished third. Ascari drove the fastest race lap. Overall, however, the Lancia debut was disappointing, as despite a superior pole position and the fastest race lap, both drivers retired relatively quickly with defects.
The season ended with a world champion, Fangio, who won most of the races of the season, whose Mercedes dominated throughout the season but was beaten by Ferrari in a few races. Fangio is the only Formula 1 world champion who drove for two teams in one year and won the world title in the process.
Registration list
Remarks
- ↑ a b Emmanuel de Graffenried drove the Maserati with the number 22 until the 30th lap of the race. In this, Ottorino Volonterio took over the cockpit.
Classifications
Starting grid
Item | driver | constructor | time | Ø speed | begin |
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1 | Alberto Ascari | Lancia | 2: 18.1 | 164.65 km / h | 1 |
2 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Mercedes | 2: 19.1 | 163.46 km / h | 2 |
3 | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | 2: 20.6 | 161.72 km / h | 3 |
4th | Harry Schell | Maserati | 2: 20.6 | 161.72 km / h | 4th |
5 | Luigi Villoresi | Lancia | 2: 21.0 | 161.26 km / h | 5 |
6th | Stirling Moss | Maserati | 2: 21.2 | 161.03 km / h | 6th |
7th | Luigi Musso | Maserati | 2: 21.5 | 160.69 km / h | 7th |
8th | Maurice Trintignant | Ferrari | 2: 01.4 | 186.82 km / h | 8th |
9 | Hans Herrmann | Mercedes | 2: 21.9 | 160.24 km / h | 9 |
10 | Sergio Mantovani | Maserati | 2: 22.0 | 160.12 km / h | 10 |
11 | Roberto Mieres | Maserati | 2: 22.3 | 159.79 km / h | 11 |
12 | Karl Kling | Mercedes | 2: 23.4 | 158.56 km / h | 12 |
13 | Chico Godia | Maserati | 2: 24.2 | 157.68 km / h | 13 |
14th | Ken Wharton | Maserati | 2: 25.7 | 156.06 km / h | 14th |
15th | Prince Bira | Maserati | 2: 26.1 | 155.63 km / h | 15th |
16 | Jacques Pollet | Gordini | 2: 27.4 | 154.26 km / h | 16 |
17th | Robert Manzon | Ferrari | 2: 27.5 | 154.15 km / h | 17th |
18th | Jean Behra | Gordini | 2: 27.8 | 153.84 km / h | 18th |
19th | Jacques Swaters | Ferrari | 2: 28.0 | 153.63 km / h | 19th |
20th | Louis Rosier | Maserati | 2: 29.8 | 151.79 km / h | 20th |
21st | Emmanuel de Graffenried | Maserati | 2: 29.8 | 151.79 km / h | 21st |
run
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
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1 | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | 80 | 3: 13: 52.1 | 3 | |||
2 | Luigi Musso | Maserati | 80 | +1: 13.2 | 7th | |||
3 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Mercedes | 79 | + 1 lap | 2 | |||
4th | Roberto Mieres | Maserati | 79 | + 1 lap | 11 | |||
5 | Karl Kling | Mercedes | 79 | + 1 lap | 12 | |||
6th | Chico Godia | Maserati | 76 | + 4 rounds | 13 | |||
7th | Louis Rosier | Maserati | 74 | + 6 rounds | 20th | |||
8th | Ken Wharton | Maserati | 74 | + 6 rounds | 14th | |||
9 | Prince Bira | Maserati | 68 | + 12 rounds | 15th | |||
- | Sergio Mantovani | Maserati | 58 | DNF | 10 | Brakes / accident | ||
- | Ottorino Volonterio | Maserati | 57 | DNF | 21st | Engine failure | ||
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Emmanuel de Graffenried Ottorino Volonterio |
Ferrari | 57 | DNF | 21st | Engine failure | ||
- | Harry Schell | Maserati | 52 | DNF | 4th | Power transmission | ||
- | Hans Herrmann | Mercedes | 50 | DNF | 9 | injection | ||
- | Maurice Trintignant | Ferrari | 47 | DNF | 8th | transmission | ||
- | Jacques Pollet | Gordini | 37 | DNF | 16 | Power transmission | ||
- | Stirling Moss | Maserati | 19th | DNF | 6th | Oil pump | ||
- | Jean Behra | Gordini | 16 | DNF | 18th | Brakes | ||
- | Jacques Swaters | Ferrari | 15th | DNF | 19th | Engine failure | ||
- | Alberto Ascari | Lancia | 9 | DNF | 1 | coupling | ||
- | Robert Manzon | Ferrari | 1 | DNF | 17th | Engine failure | ||
- | Luigi Villoresi | Lancia | 1 | DNF | 5 | Brakes | ||
- | Peter Collins | Vanwall | 0 | DNS | Accident in training |
World Cup stand after the race
In 1954, points were awarded according to the following scheme:
1st place | place 2 | place 3 | 4th place | 5th place | Fastest lap |
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8th | 6th | 4th | 3 | 2 | 1 |
- Only the five best results from nine races counted. Deleted results are shown in brackets.
- The numbers marked with * include the point for the fastest lap.
- Fields marked in the same color indicate shared vehicles.
Item | driver | constructor | Points | |||||||||
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1. | Juan Manuel Fangio | Maserati / Mercedes | 8th | 9 * | 8th | (3.14 *) | 8th | 9 * | (8th) | (4) | 42 (57.14) | |
2. | José Froilán González | Ferrari | 5 * | (1.5) | 8.14 * | 3 | 6th | 3 * | 25.14 (26.64) | |||
3. | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | 1.5 | 6.14 * | 3 | 6th | 8th | 24.64 | ||||
4th | Maurice Trintignant | Ferrari | 3 | 6th | 2 | 4th | 2 | 17th | ||||
5. | Karl Kling | Mercedes | 6th | 4 * | 2 | 12 | ||||||
6th | Bill Vukovich | Kurti's power | 8th | 8th | ||||||||
Hans Herrmann | Mercedes | 1* | 4th | 3 | 8th | |||||||
8th. | Giuseppe Farina | Ferrari | 6th | 6th | ||||||||
Jimmy Bryan | Kuzma | 6th | 6th | |||||||||
Luigi Musso | Maserati | 6th | 6th | |||||||||
Roberto Mieres | Maserati | 3 | 3 | 6th | ||||||||
12. | Stirling Moss | Maserati | 4th | 0.14 * | 4.14 | |||||||
Onofre Marimon | Maserati | 4.14 * | 4.14 | |||||||||
14th | Jack McGrath | Kurtis power | 4th | 4th | ||||||||
Robert Manzon | Ferrari | 4th | 4th | |||||||||
Sergio Mantovani | Maserati | 2 | 2 | 4th | ||||||||
17th | Prince Bira | Maserati | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
18th | Elie Bayol | Gordini | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
Mike Nazaruk | Kurtis power | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
André Pilette | Gordini | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
Luigi Villoresi | Maserati | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
Umberto Maglioli | Ferrari | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
23. | Troy Ruttman | Kurti's power | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||||||||
Duane Carter | Kurti's power | 1.5 | 1.5 | |||||||||
25th | Alberto Ascari | Maserati / Lancia | 0.14 * | 1* | 1.14 | |||||||
26th | Sam Hanks | Kurti's power | 1* | 1 | ||||||||
27. | Jean Behra | Maserati | 0.14 * | 0.14 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lancia D50. In: grandprixhistory.org , accessed July 16, 2013.