1960 Belgian Grand Prix

F1 1960 Dutch Grand Prix 1960 French Grand Prix Belgium Belgian XX Grand Prix de Belgique Spa Francorchamps 1939-1978 circuit.png 19 June 1960 Spa-Francorchamps, Francorchamps, Belgium Grand Prix Circuit 8.763 14.100 36 315.475 507.600 Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 3:50.0 Australia Jack Brabham UK Innes Ireland USA 1959 Phil Hill Cooper-Climax Lotus-Climax Ferrari 3:51.9 Australia Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax Australia Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax New Zealand Olivier Gendebien Cooper-Climax Belgium BEL thumb|200px|The remains of Alan Stacey's car after his fatal accident in the 1960 Belgian Grand Prix. In the inset, Stacey before the race. The 1960 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Spa-Francorchamps on 19 June 1960. It was race 5 of 10 in the 1960 World Championship of Drivers and race 4 of 9 in the 1960 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. Stirling Moss and Mike Taylor were seriously injured in crashes during practice, and Chris Bristow and Alan Stacey were killed in accidents during the race. Along with the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, it is one of two occasions in which two driver fatalities have occurred at a Formula One race meeting, and the only one where both occurred during the race itself. Practice and race laps 1-19 Practice for the event saw Stirling Moss and Mike Taylor injured in separate accidents, with Taylor suffering injuries after a crash at Stavelot which ended his racing career, and Moss injured seriously enough (two broken legs) after crashing at Burnenville to keep him out of racing for a number of months including the 1960 24 Hours of Le Mans. In the race itself, the Lotus drivers Innes Ireland and Jim Clark got off to good starts before Ireland eventually spun out with clutch trouble on lap 14. Fatal accidents On lap 20 Chris Bristow, driving a year-old Cooper for the British Racing Partnership, went off line at Malmedy while battling for sixth place with the Ferrari of Mairesse. Bristow lost control, crashing into a 4 foot on high embankment, and was thrown from his car and landed on a barbed wire fence which decapitated him. Five laps later, Alan Stacey was hit in the face by a bird at Masta, causing him to lose control with his car somersaulting off the track and landing in a field. The car then caught fire and Stacey, still trapped inside, was burned to death. It was the only Formula One race meeting in which two drivers were killed until the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. Race conclusion The race distance had been lengthened to 36 laps from 24 laps. Jack Brabham crossed the finish line first a minute and three seconds ahead of his Cooper-Climax teammate, Bruce McLaren. The results highlight an unusual quirk in the rules regarding classification of non-finishers. Under modern rules, Graham Hill would have been classified third, since he completed lap 35 before the lapped Olivier Gendebien. Hill then retired, in the pits, but was not classified since he did not push his car over the line after the winner took the finish (as required by the rules of the time). In fact the rule about crossing the finishing line was inconsistently applied – at the 1959 German Grand Prix, Harry Schell was classified seventh despite only completing 49 of the race's 60 laps.Hayhoe, David & Holland, David (2006). Grand Prix Data Book (4th edition). Haynes, Sparkford, UK. 1-84425-223-X Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap 1 2 AUS Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 3:50.0— 2 38 GBR Tony Brooks Cooper-Climax 3:52.5 +2.5 3 12 GBR Stirling Moss Lotus-Climax 3:52.6 +2.6 4 24 USA 1959 Phil Hill Ferrari 3:53.3 +3.3 5 34 Belgium Olivier Gendebien Cooper-Climax 3:53.5 +3.5 6 10 GBR Graham Hill BRM 3:54.2 +4.2 7 6 SWE Jo Bonnier BRM 3:54.8 +4.8 8 14 GBR Innes Ireland Lotus-Climax 3:55.4 +5.4 9 36 GBR Chris Bristow Cooper-Climax 3:56.3 +6.3 10 18 GBR Jim Clark Lotus-Climax 3:57.5 +7.5 11 26 DEU Wolfgang von Trips Ferrari 3:57.8 +7.8 12 8 USA 1959 Dan Gurney BRM 3:58.3 +8.3 13 22 Belgium Willy Mairesse Ferrari 3:58.9 +8.9 14 4 NZL Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 4:00.0 +10.0 15 32 Belgium Lucien Bianchi Cooper-Climax 4:00.6 +10.6 16 28 USA 1959 Lance Reventlow Scarab 4:09.7 +19.7 17 16 GBR Alan Stacey Lotus-Climax 4:17.6 +27.6 18 30 USA 1959 Chuck Daigh Scarab 4:18.5 +28.5Source:http://www.chicanef1.com/race.pl?year=1960&gp=Belgian%20GP&r=1&type=qual 1960 Belgian GP - ChicaneF1.com www.chicanef1.com 26 July 2020 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 2 Australia Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 36 2:21:37.3 1 8 2 4 New Zealand Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 36 + 1:03.3 14 6 3 34 Belgium Olivier Gendebien Cooper-Climax 35 + 1 Lap 5 4 4 24 USA 1959 Phil Hill Ferrari 35 + 1 Lap 4 3 5 18 UK Jim Clark Lotus-Climax 34 + 2 Laps 10 2 6 32 Belgium Lucien Bianchi Cooper-Climax 28 + 8 Laps 15 1 Ret Retired 10 UK Graham Hill BRM 35 Engine 6   Ret Retired 16 UK Alan Stacey Lotus-Climax 24 Fatal accident 17   Ret Retired 22 Belgium Willy Mairesse Ferrari 23 Transmission 13   Ret Retired 26 Germany Wolfgang von Trips Ferrari 22 Transmission 11   Ret Retired 36 UK Chris Bristow Cooper-Climax 19 Fatal accident 9   Ret Retired 30 USA 1959 Chuck Daigh Scarab 16 Engine 18   Ret Retired 6 Sweden Jo Bonnier BRM 14 Engine 7   Ret Retired 14 UK Innes Ireland Lotus-Climax 13 Spun Off/Clutch 8   Ret Retired 8 USA 1959 Dan Gurney BRM 4 Engine 12   Ret Retired 38 UK Tony Brooks Cooper-Climax 2 Gearbox 2   Ret Retired 28 USA 1959 Lance Reventlow Scarab 1 Engine 16   DNS Did not start 12 GBR Stirling Moss Lotus-Climax Accident 3 DNS Did not start 20 UK Mike Taylor Lotus-Climax AccidentSource:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1960/648/ 1960 Belgian Grand Prix formula1.com 20 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20141222215830/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1960/648/ 22 December 2014 Notes This was the Formula One World Championship debut race for Belgian driver Willy Mairesse. Excluding the eleven Indianapolis 500 races - that were part of the Formula One World Championship between 1950-1960 - this was the first Formula One World Championship race where a Frenchman did not participate. In all the other 77 races, a Frenchman had participated. A British driver had been present at 75 of those races. Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings PosDriverPoints 10px 1 New Zealand Bruce McLaren 20 10px 2 2 Australia Jack Brabham 16 10px 1 3 UK Stirling Moss 11 10px 1 4 USA 1959 Jim Rathmann 8 10px 5 UK Innes Ireland 7Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1960/belgique/championnat.aspx Belgium 1960 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 12 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 10px 1 UK Cooper-Climax30 10px 2 UK Lotus-Climax17 10px 3 Italy Ferrari15 10px 4 UK BRM6 10px 5 UK Cooper-Maserati3Source: Notes: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. References 30em Belgian Grand Prix 1960 1960 Dutch Grand Prix 1960 French Grand Prix 1958 Belgian Grand Prix 1961 Belgian Grand Prix Belgian Grand Prix Category:Belgian Grand Prix Grand Prix