1957 British Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1957 was held on July 20, 1957 at the Aintree Circuit held in Liverpool and was the fifth race of the Formula 1 season 1957. The Grand Prix also had the FIA honorary title of European Grand Prix.
- 3.1 Start -up
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
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Background
Before the Grand Prix of Great Britain, 1957 there was a not for the World Cup belonging Grand Prix in Reims, the Luigi Musso won in a Ferrari. For Ferrari, it was the third victory in 1957 in a race like that included in the Grand Prix for the drivers' championship one remained winless.
The Grand Prix of Great Britain took place in 1957 for the second time on the Aintree Circuit held in that alternated as the venue annually with the Silverstone circuit. With Stirling Moss the previous winner of the Grand Prix went to, in the championship led the reigning world champion Juan Manuel Fangio clearly ahead of the competition.
The two top Italian teams Maserati and Ferrari came with an unchanged driver line-up with four cars. For Maurice Trintignant it was the last race for the Scuderia Ferrari, he moved to the Race to the RRC Walker Racing Team, which debuted in 1957 at the Grand Prix of Great Britain. The new Formula 1 team was a Cooper T43 one for Jack Brabham. As Rob Walker Racing Team was the team in the following years, the most successful of those who never competed with their own cars to Grand Prix. From 1957 to 1970, the team won nine races. The Cooper works team also approached, but only uses a car for Roy Salvadori.
Vanwall reported on three cars for the home race. Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks came to illness and back injury, Stuart Lewis -Evans established himself as the third regular driver and drove the rest of the season with Vanwall. B.R.M. came for their home race again in Formula 1 season in 1957 with two cars and retired after the rest of the season ahead of the Formula 1 back. B.R.M. Faced Jack Fairman and Les Leston cars available for Leston this was his final Grand Prix.
With Jo Bonnier, Horace Gould and Ivor Bueb drove three riders with private Maserati 250F, Bob Gerard ended his Formula 1 career in a private Cooper BG43. This was the only time that this car came into use in a Formula 1 race.
Training
Vanwall improved the performance of their cars significantly compared to previous races and was on par with the Maserati in training. Fangio, who was in poor health and otherwise took the pole position usually, missed this and reached number four on the grid. His team-mate Jean Behra was the only rider of mithielt with Moss and Brooks and scored two position. Two-tenths of a second faster was Moss, who reached the first pole position for Vanwall and a British team as a whole. Brooks completed the first row in the second Vanwall. Hawthorn, in the fastest Ferrari, was in fifth place with a second off the pole time of Moss and Fangio started next in row two. Start number three consisted of Lewis -Evans in the third Vanwall, Harry Schell in the third Maserati and Peter Collins, who drove for Ferrari. The Ferrari of Maurice Trintignant and Luigi Musso completed the top ten.
While the cars from Vanwall were classified as capable of winning, it lacked BRM and Cooper on competitiveness. B.R.M. reached the starting positions twelve and 16, during which Cooper went into the race with Salvadori from 15th on. The driver with private car qualified for the back panel, fastest of these drivers Brabham was in position 13
Race
The starting duel between Vanwall and Maserati won Behra, but Moss still overtook him during the first lap of the race to take the lead of the race. Brooks stayed behind in third place and dueled with the Ferrari of Hawthorn and Collins. Fangio came away again relatively poorly and lost several positions, including Schell and Musso overtook him. Gould, who was injured in an accident in training, was not able to participate in the race. Four British riders were in the top 5, and with the Vanwall was a British car in a promising position for the first race win.
Moss extended his lead until lap 21 to Behra continuously, during which retired on lap 18 Bonnier with a technical defect. Even Moss got problems with his Vanwall and headed into the pits for a repair attempt. At Vanwall, however, it was decided to let Brooks and Moss swap the car. The carriage of Brooks ran without problems, but Brooks still had a handicap by the injury in an accident in the 24- hour race at Le Mans in 1957. For this reason, the team was of the opinion Moss had in functioning car from Brooks better chances of the race win. Both drivers put little later the race continued and tried to make the lost positions well again, Moss dropped back to ninth place.
Behra who had taken the lead, this managed without problems since Hawthorn, who was now in second position, no competitive Ferrari had to overtake Behra. Third place Lewis -Evans, meanwhile, had been working, which overtook Collins. Moss succeeded within a few laps to overtake a number of counterparties and was thus in fifth behind Collins, as several technical failures changed the classification greatly. Menditeguy retired on lap 35 with a lack of power transmission in his car from, Schell on lap 39 due to a defective water pump. On lap 45 Leston suffered an engine failure, just three laps later overtook his teammate Fairman the same fate, which in BRM Both cars were eliminated. B.R.M. pulled back then for the rest of the season in Formula 1. The World Championship leader Fangio also retired on lap 48 with an engine failure, two laps later the engine at Brooks car was also finally broken. On lap 53, the failure of Collins series were continued and placed in round 69 of the Leading Behra his car with a defective clutch from. This literally exploded and distributed car parts on the track, through the Hawthorn got a puncture.
When he fell back took over Lewis -Evans briefly lead before Moss still overtook him on lap 69. Moss was due to the failure of the entire competition back to square one. The double victory along with Lewis Evans did not materialize, as this fell back with another technical defect in seventh place. Moss also came again shortly before the race ended in a safety pit stop came with a lead of 25 seconds ahead of second place, however, Musso back on the racing track.
Moss thus won for the second consecutive year, the Grand Prix of Great Britain to Aintree Circuit. For his Vanwall team, this meant the first victory, which was the first Grand Prix success for a British car at the same time. Fangio said to have been the first according to a statement from Moss, who congratulated the team for this historic success. Moss shared the points for the victory with Brooks, as both drivers drove the car in the race. This was the third and final victory in the Formula 1, the two drivers shared, for Brooks, it was the first victory of his Formula 1 career.
The Ferrari team remained winless in the Formula 1 season in 1957, Musso and Hawthorn completed the podium, Trintignant reached in his last race for Ferrari in fourth place. The last three laps before Collins 's car Trintignant. However, the leaders racing Stewarts were of the opinion that this was too short a distance that Collins had driven Trintignant and gave the full three points, while Collins was awarded no points. Another historic success achieved Salvadori Cooper, who completed the points with position five. These were the first drivers' championship points for a car with mid- engine in Formula 1, and Salvatore Doris first points.
In the drivers' standings, Musso improved to second place ahead of Brooks in third place. Fangio's lead was shortened to 12 points. Thus Fangio had the opportunity in the next race prematurely to become world champion with a win and six points more than Musso, and three points more than Brooks that he would need to reach.
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Race
Standings after the race
The first five of the race were 8, 6, 4, 3, 2 points. The driver with the fastest lap of the race also received 1 point. It included only the five best results from the eight races.