1958 Monaco Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Monaco in 1958 was on May 18, 1958, the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo and was the second race of the Formula 1 season 1958.
- 3.1 Start -up
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
After the season opener, the Grand Prix of Argentina in 1958 attended only 10 riders and a factory team, the participants increased the Grand Prix of Monaco in 1958 and clearly some drivers drove their debut race. In the run up to the second race of the season three not for the World Cup belonging Grand Prix were held, Mike Hawthorn won for Ferrari the Glover Trophy at Goodwood, Luigi Musso also won for Ferrari Grand Prix Syrakuse and Stirling Moss repeated the success of the season opener in Argentina and won in Aintree in a Cooper - Climax.
Ferrari announced for the Monaco Grand Prix, four vehicles, in addition to the regular drivers Hawthorn, Musso and Peter Collins joined again to Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips. The Cooper works team returned to the Formula 1 and drove like last year with the driver Jack Brabham and Roy Salvadori pairing. The team brought the first time the new car at the start, the Cooper T45 Cooper T43 thus replaces the from the previous year from. The team also let go of the drivers with different engines, while Brabham was given a 2.2 liter engine, Salvadori drove the weaker 2.0 liter engine.
After winning the opening race Moss was again taken up for Vanwall, we sat at the Rob Walker Racing Team on the new driver pairing Maurice Trintignant and Ron Flockhart. For Trintignant new Cooper T45 was used, Flockhart was allowed to go with the old Cooper T43. Moss was at Vanwall as last year on the side of Tony Brooks and Stuart Lewis -Evans. As car began to enter the new Vanwall VW 57, an evolution of the previous car Vanwall VW 55
B.R.M. also returned to the Formula 1 back and joined with Jean Behra and Harry Schell, who had been in the previous year at Maserati under contract and after leaving this team to BRM changed. Another British team had the Grand Prix of Monaco in 1958 made his Formula 1 debut, Lotus launched went for the team in their respective first race to the starting line for the first time with the Lotus 12 Graham Hill and Cliff Allison. Hill in 1962 and 1968, twice world champion and held for decades the record for most Grand Prix participants. As Cooper also renounced Lotus in her car on a specially constructed motor and used Climax engines.
OSCA appeared as another British team after five year break to a race and appointed an OSCA F2 for Giulio Cabianca, and an OSCA Sports Car for Luigi Piotti. For the team, this was the only Grand Prix participation in the Formula 1 season 1958 Cabianca for the first Formula 1 race of his career, for Piotti the final Grand Prix. Bernie Ecclestone, who later became Formula 1 boss, went with his own team as a driver at the start and set a two Connaught B Type. For him it was the first of two Formula 1 races, his team-mate Bruce Kessler, with whom he shared a car, drove his only race, Paul Emery his second and last.
In addition, several drivers were reported with private Maserati 250F for the race again. Jo Bonnier, Giorgio Scarlatti and Paco Godia competed with their own teams. With Maria Teresa de Filippis the first time a woman tried for a Formula 1 race to qualify, Gerino Gerini and Horace Gould drove for the Scuderia Centro Sud and Ken Kavanagh shared his car with Luigi Taramazzo. Both drivers made their debuts for Taramazzo this was the only Grand Prix participation. Louis Chiron tried one last time for a race to qualify and was with this test, the oldest driver in Formula 1 history. His team-mate André Testut drove like so many other drivers in this race also the first time in Formula 1
In the drivers 'standings Moss led just before Musso and Hawthorn, in the Constructors' Championship was Cooper ahead of Ferrari and Maserati. With Moss and Trintignant two former winners took part in the race, Ferrari was already saved successfully.
Training
The training for the Grand Prix of Monaco in 1958 was a duel between the British team Vanwall, BRM and Cooper, which Tony Brooks on Vanwall decided in his favor, he was the only driver who remained at the time of 1:40,0. Brooks scored the first pole position of his career and he had a second ahead of the time of the second-placed lead he showed the competitiveness of the new Vanwall VW 57, but remained the Brooks only pole position of the Formula 1 season 1958. Position two went to Behra in BRM, who qualified just ahead of the Cooper Brabham and Salvadori. Also for Cooper scored with the car a significant increase in performance with the positions of three to five. On this square Trintignant qualified private Cooper T45, which was used by the Rob Walker Racing Team. Ferrari lost in this training the connection to the UK's top teams, Hawthorn qualified to be the best Ferrari driver in sixth place, Collins position reached nine, Musso began ten and Graf Berghe von Trips was from twelfth on the grid. The top 10 were completed by Lewis Evans on the seven and Moss to start eighth.
For safety reasons, the driver's field, which took the race was limited to a maximum of 16 vehicles. 14 riders left so already in training if their hours were not enough for the top 16. Of the established teams all drivers managed the qualification and also Lotus brought both cars during its debut in the starting lineup, Allison at No. 13 and Hill in 15th place, the last two free places were occupied by Scarlatti and Bonnier.
Not for the race, however, qualified the entire team of Ecclestone, the Scuderia Centro Sud and OSCA, and Flockhart in the old Cooper T43, the car still won the previous race. In addition Godia, Chiron, Taramazzo, Kavanagh, Testut and the first woman in the driver's field, de Filippis not managed to qualify for the Grand Prix of Monaco in 1958. Ecclestone gave during training Les Leston his helmet and let go of him. After Leston had driven a time that was enough for a qualification that was recognized the fraud and Ecclestone time established by Leston was, was not considered. Also Leston was not allowed to participate in the race because he was not on the official entry list.
Race
Salvadori, who started from fourth place took over briefly at the start of the guide, then braked too late and collided with another car after he had come too far in the first corner to the outside. Then he came to a repair pit stop to pit and fell back. Behra took over in B.R.M. the lead of the race and broke away from his opponent. Behind Behra Brooks was in second place ahead of Brabham and Moss.
Until the round eight Hawthorn overtook only Moss and then Brabham and was thus in third place behind Brooks. The Vanwall got in the next round problems with their engines, only different Lewis -Evans with an overheated engine on lap 11, then it was followed by Brooks on lap 21 with an engine failure, leaving only Moss was for Vanwall in the race. Hawthorn benefited from Brooks failure and was in round 22 in second place behind the leader Behra. The loss series was continued in the next rounds, only suffered an engine failure Scarlatti, then Behra fell out with brake defects, which Hawthorn inherited the lead. He defended this first in subsequent rounds against Moss, who had caught up to him and Moss went in round 33 at Hawthorn past to take over the lead. The duel between the two for the victory, however, was completed a few laps later by other technical defects. Only Moss suffered, like his teammate Brooks before an engine failure, then retired from Hawthorn with a defective fuel pump. Thus, the race for Vanwall was completed, none of the three cars reached the finish, although Moss was six laps in the lead and had chances to win.
After several drivers were excreted in the lead, Trintignant was in the new Cooper T45 at number one and defending himself as Moss in the season opener against Musso race in a Ferrari. Hill was in his debut race in the first race for Team Lotus at position four and dueled with Collins to a podium finish in round 69 as the half-wave at his car broke down. Also Cooper drivers Salvadori different from some previous rounds with a broken half- shaft. On lap 71 Bonnier crashed on lap 91 also Graf Berghe von Trips suffered an engine failure, so the failure rate in this race was very high, only six cars crossed the finish line.
The Ferrari driver Musso and Collins came in the last laps closer to Trintignant approach, however, no longer caught up with him. Trintignant won by 20 seconds at Musso the race, which was his second and last win in Formula 1, both successes he achieved the Grand Prix of Monaco. For Cooper and the Rob Walker Racing Team it was the second consecutive victory and the competition realized that the smaller less powerful mid-engine cars are competitive and capable of winning against all expectations.
Musso and Collins completed the podium for Ferrari, which Musso the lead in the drivers' championship took over without winning a race. This created after him again until Lewis Hamilton in the 2007 Formula 1 season. However, this was the last podium for Musso, he crashed three races later at the Grand Prix of France 1958 fatal. Brabham reached with three laps behind fourth place and thus the first points finish of his career, Schell scored fifth position with nine laps down. With 13 laps behind Allison peaked at number six, the first finish for a Lotus.
In the drivers' championship lead after the race Musso before Moss and Trintignant, Hawthorn and Collins were at number four and five. In the constructors' championship Cooper enlarged the gap to Ferrari and Maserati, BRM was by the fifth of Schell at number four.
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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.