1958 British Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1958 was held on July 19, 1958 held at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone and was the seventh race of the Formula 1 season 1958.
- 3.1 Start -up
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
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Background
After the retirement of Juan Manuel Fangio, there was the rest of the season no world champion more in the driver's field, a state in 1959, lasted until the end of the Formula 1 season and entered the port until the 1994 Formula 1 season. Previously, there was in this case only in the Formula 1 season in 1950, the first automotive world championship.
After the fatal accident of Luigi Musso Grand Prix of France 1958 Ferrari approached only with three cars, Peter Collins, whose regular place stood at the Scuderia Ferrari in question was of this race back on a permanent team member. In addition to Collins and Mike Hawthorn Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips drove for Ferrari.
While B.R.M. and Vanwall with an unchanged driver line was launched, there were changes at Lotus and Cooper. Ian Burgess drove his first Formula 1 race for Cooper, Lotus debuted Alan Stacey. For Stacey and his team mate Graham Hill each of the new Lotus 16 was used, Cliff Allison drove the previous model Lotus 12
Again launched several driver with private car, Maurice Trintignant drove team for the Rob Walker Racing in an older Cooper T43, with which the team won the first two races of the season. The Scuderia Centro Sud was reported with two Maserati 250F for the Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1958, Carroll Shelby and Gerino Gerini were the driver. In addition, Jo Bonnier entered into a private Maserati 250F at the race. The later Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone tried in 1958 to qualify for a second and last time for a Grand Prix for the Monaco Grand Prix. In his own team, with two purchased Connaught Type B, and teammate Jack Fairman and Ivor Bueb he was registered for the competition.
In the drivers 'standings Hawthorn on a par with Vanwall driver Stirling Moss, in the drivers' standings Ferrari led with six points ahead of Vanwall. Ferrari won the Grand Prix of Great Britain at Silverstone in previous years, five times in a row, but it took no part former winner of this race.
Training
The training for the Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1958 was balanced between the top teams. Five different cars qualified on the first five starting positions, fastest driver was Moss in the Vanwall. For Vanwall, this was the third pole position of the season, Moss for the first one. In addition to Moss, Harry Schell qualified in BRM for the first row, Roy Salvadori Cooper was third. In fourth place, with a second off the pole time, Hawthorn, Moss biggest rival in the battle for the drivers' title qualified. Allison, who drove the same time as Hawthorn, was fifth, as he set his fastest time after Hawthorn. Once again he proved that the older Lotus 12 was faster than its successor, the Lotus 16, for Hill qualified only 14th place, Stacey, however, was even last on the grid.
In midfield Collins sixth place ahead of Lewis -Evans on Vanwall and Jean Behra on BRM Moss teammate Tony Brooks and Cooper - driver Jack Brabham completed the top ten. Best rider of those with private cars Trintignant was to start in 12th place for the team Ecclestone both Bueb and Fairman qualified. Bernie Ecclestone himself drove no time in training, left his car Fairman and finished after his brief career as a driver. He focused in the following decades to his role as team manager.
Race
The starting duel Collins decided for themselves, starting from sixth, he overtook five opponents in the very first lap of the race and led the race then on to the finish line. Moss finished after the first lap of the race in second place, which dueled for position three to Hawthorn, Brooks, Schell and Salvadori. In the following rounds, Collins sat continually on his opponent, behind him lay Moss before Hawthorn, during which Schell and Salvadori lost the connection to the first three cars.
The first failure of the race there were in round seven. Fairman retired with a broken ignition. Subsequently, technical problems with the car from Lotus began to appear, Hill retired on lap 17 from Stacey followed just two laps later. As with his teammate Hill before, resulted in round 21 the lack of oil pressure to the end of the race for Allison, which were all three Lotus cars excreted. On lap 19 strike the transmission of Bueb, which the team of Ecclestone did not bring a car to the finish. In the same round Behra ran over a rabbit crossed the line and began thus an a puncture that forced him to an early end of the race. The loss series was then continued in round 25, Moss suffered two lying position on an engine failure.
Due to the failure of Moss Collins drove a ungefährdetes race to number one, behind him was his teammate Hawthorn, however a few laps later a pit stop needed to replenish oil. Lewis -Evans had fought his way up to third place, however, this position became less Salvadori. Hawthorn came after his pit stop slightly ahead of Salvadori back on the track, he held second place, however, until the end of the race, as Salvadori has had to say in a duel with Lewis Evans. With Burgess, Gerini, Bonnier and trips eliminated from further four drivers, only nine riders reached the finish.
For Collins, it was the third and final victory of his career. A race later, the Grand Prix of Germany 1958, he crashed fatally. For Ferrari it was the second win in a row, but the last in the Formula 1 season 1958. Moreover, this was the last victory for the tire manufacturer Englebert. Ferrari ended with the Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1958 a winning streak of six consecutive victories at this track, which began in 1951 with the first Ferrari victory of their team history at the Grand Prix of Great Britain. The next victory at Silverstone Ferrari reached again until decades later, when Alain Prost Grand Prix of Great Britain won in 1990.
Hawthorn had in the target 24 seconds behind Collins, took over with two position but the lead in the drivers' standings. The additional point for driving the fastest lap thus Hawthorn extended his lead on Moss on seven points. Collins improved thanks to a victory at number three. Salvadori completed the podium, his first of two podium finishes. Lewis -Evans in fourth and fifth place Schell also received points. As in the previous race, Brabham missed scoring points with just under six position. In the constructors' championship all rankings remained unchanged, Ferrari built the lead to 11 points on Vanwall from. With four races of the season, both ratings were completely open and everyone was still the theoretical possibility to become world champion.
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WM stands 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 six best results from eleven races. In the constructors' championship included only the points of the top ranked driver of a team.