1957 Italian Grand Prix
The Italian Grand Prix 1957 was held on September 8, 1957 held at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza near Monza and was the eighth race of the Formula 1 season 1957.
- 3.1 Start -up
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
Reports
Background
The season finale of the Formula 1 season 1957 was held for the last time in Italy at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, in the following years, the season finale took place mostly on the American continent. Juan Manuel Fangio had the world title already secured, only the battle for second and third place in the drivers' championship was still open.
For the first time the steep curves of the track were not used for security reasons. These famous for the track curves were rarely used and fell steadily in the following decades, the last time the stretch at the Grand Prix of Italy was used in 1961. For Monza track layout with the long high speed straights, but these were mitigated by additional harassment over time remained.
Maserati went one last time to the start, the team withdrew for financial reasons after the season in Formula 1 back. Just three more years was the Maserati 250F used for private drivers and teams, but only slightly developed. The car came from 1954 to 1960 at the Formula 1 race to use and was therefore used the longest Formula 1 car model in motor racing history. Maserati went again with four vehicles at the start, alongside world champion Fangio drove Harry Schell, Jean Behra and Giorgio Scarlatti in the final race for the Italian team. Maserati carried out experiments with new V12 engines, Behra drove a car with this engine in the race, Fangio decided to after training for the race and preferred the conventional engine in his car, which all other Maserati driver used also.
Ferrari took on the partial waiver of participation in the Grand Prix of Pescara in 1957 again with four cars part in the race for the Scuderia Ferrari drove the regular driver Peter Collins, Luigi Musso and Mike Hawthorn, also Wolfgang Graf Berghe returned from trips to some races break again the team back. The third top team, Vanwall continued as in the previous race on its driver pairing Stirling Moss, Stuart Lewis -Evans and Tony Brooks. Also with an unchanged driver line launched the Scuderia Centro Sud, which was one of the many teams that private Maserati 250F inserting. Paco Godia Also, Luigi Piotti, Horace Gould, Bruce Halford, Ottorino Volonterio and André Simon drove such a car. Volonterio and Simon were doing as a team and shared the carriage, for both it was the last race in which their careers.
With Fangio and Moss went to two former winners of the race, Fangio won the race three times previously, Moss in the previous year once. Ferrari scored twice, Maserati even in the years before.
Training
In training, the balance of power between the top three teams were clearly distributed. Vanwall had the fastest car and came with their drivers, the first three grid positions. The second Vanwall pole position in the Formula 1 season in 1957 reached Evans, who started the race from pole position for the first time. In second place is Moss qualified before Brooks. Since the starting grid in the 4-3-4 system was, Fangio began in Maserati also from the front row. For the second row to Fangio's teammates Behra and Schell -skilled Collins in the best Ferrari on the grid seven. The other Ferrari driver placed behind Collins, best driver with a private car Gregory was in eleventh place.
Race
Directly at the start, the Vanwall showed their superiority, which had already been shown in training, and kept the lead, the claimed Moss for themselves. Behra started very well and worked within the first lap of the race to position two ago. Moss led thus in the first laps before Behra, Lewis Evans, Brooks and Fangio, which settled as a five - group from the rest of the field. In the second lap of the race Piotti retired with an engine failure.
Since Monza was known for its high speed slipstream duels, the leadership and the positions changed constantly. In round four Behra Moss overhauled, the one lap later took over the top spot again for the lead after this round but again Behra leave. Then Fangio overtook both drivers and kept in round seven to ten square one. These were the last kilometers guide for Maserati, Vanwall which were in this Grand Prix better and all three of the team's riders overtook Fangio, with Moss again at the top. The Vanwall fought then a team- internal duel for the lead, Brooks was in rounds twelve to 15 at the front, Lewis -Evans led the first time in his career in rounds 16 to 20, before Moss finally in round 21 Place one laid claim and defended to the finish line.
From lap 20, the phase of the race, which was marked by failures and technical problems began. Brooks fell with problems back on the gas pedal, Lewis -Evans needed a repair pit stop. Moss led before Fangio and Behra, however also to get new tires on the box went. Schell, who was now on position three retired on lap 33 with a broken fuel pump. Only three rounds before has Bonnier his car due to overheating from. On lap 46 Halford suffered an engine failure, the same fate befell Lewis -Evans two laps later and also Behras car overheated and forced him to give up. Collins, who was in the last race for the unsuccessful Ferrari 801 in the meantime on the podium on the road, had to retire due to an engine failure on lap 61 his car. Well Hawthorn took the third place, but lost in the last laps several places due to a ruptured oil line.
Moss benefited from the competition failures and drove a victory again. It was the third victory for Vanwall in the Formula 1 season 1957. Fangio scored 41 seconds behind Moss to second place, which was his last podium finish and Maseratis. Graf Berghe von Trips inherited by the many failures in third place, for him this was the first podium finish of his Formula 1 career and the first by a German driver, since the Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1955, in which Karl Kling reached the podium. Gregory reached a further placement points in fourth place for the Scuderia Centro Sud. Harry Schell, who had taken the car of his teammates Scarlatti, completed the points in fifth, Brooks was awarded a point for driving the fastest lap of the race. The division points between Schell and Scarlatti was the last of its kind from the Formula 1 season 1958 driver changes were prohibited during the race and there were no more points. But since you still had advantages of a change of driver in certain situations, this practice has been used sporadically until the U.S. Grand Prix in 1964.
In the world championship Fangio won the world title by a wide margin to the competition. With the victory, Moss secured as last year in the World Championship, was third Musso before Hawthorn and Brooks. Collins, who had left the drivers 'title in the previous year Fangio in the last race, not followed up on the success in the Formula 1 season in 1956 and was beaten by his team-mate in the drivers' standings.
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Line-up
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.