1960 United States Grand Prix

August 2023 F1 United States United States III Grand Prix of the U.S. November 20 Riverside International Raceway 1967.svg 1960 10 10 Riverside International RacewayRiverside, California Permanent road course 3.275 5.271 75 245.643 395.325 Temperatures up to 75.9 F C flip;Wind speeds up to 11.39 mph km/h fliphttp://www.almanac.com/weather/history/CA/Moreno%20Valley/1960-11-20 Weather information for the "1960 United States Grand Prix" The Old Farmers' Almanac 2013-06-26 UK Stirling Moss Lotus-Climax 1:54.4 Australia Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 1:56.3 71 UK Stirling Moss Lotus-Climax UK Innes Ireland Lotus-Climax New Zealand Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax USA The 1960 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on November 20, 1960, at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California. It was race 10 of 10 in the 1960 World Championship of Drivers and race 9 of 9 in the 1960 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. Reigning champion Jack Brabham who went into the final round with a 7-point-gap over championship rival Bruce McLaren, was able to successfully defend his title by finishing fourth, becoming the third overall back-to-back Formula One World Champion after Alberto Ascari and Juan Manuel Fangio. Summary For whatever reason (unfamiliarity of the fans with open-wheeled cars and European drivers; media disapproval of Eastern promoters; lack of an ongoing championship battle), promoter Alec Ulmann had no more success drumming up support for the 1960 United States Grand Prix at Riverside International Raceway in California than he had the year before in Sebring, Florida. Set in the desert near the Box Spring Mountain complex east of Los Angeles, the Riverside track featured a particularly demanding uphill esses section, just past the start-finish line. Riverside resident and local hero Dan Gurney headed the field as the natural favorite of the crowd, which numbered only about 25,000. Jack Brabham, who had already clinched his second consecutive World Championship a few weeks prior in Portugal, was back with teammate Bruce McLaren in the factory Cooper-Climaxes. Team Lotus had cars for Jim Clark, Innes Ireland and John Surtees, while Rob Walker entered a Scottish blue Lotus for Stirling Moss. BRM had three mid-engined P48s for Jo Bonnier, Graham Hill and Gurney. With the Championship chase over, Enzo Ferrari decided to keep his cars at home, believing his time and money would be better spent preparing for the new 1.5-liter Formula for 1961. The team's drivers, Phil Hill and Wolfgang von Trips, however, were allowed to enter the race with other teams. Hill particularly wanted to protect his third-place position in the Championship behind Cooper teammates Brabham and McLaren. Moss won the pole battle, well ahead of Brabham and Gurney, who completed the front row. Phil Hill was astonished at the "incredible" difference in handling between the year-old, rear-engined green and red Cooper he was given for the race and the Monza winning Dino Ferrari he had been driving all season, but he managed to put it only thirteenth on the grid. On his way to the track in nearly perfect weather on Sunday morning, race promoter Ulmann realized that, indeed, he had bitten the hand that might have fed him. Following the rousing success of the Los Angeles Times-sponsored Sports Car Grand Prix that summer, where a crowd of 70,000 packed RIR, Ulmann said plainly that a genuine Formula One Grand Prix would surely do even better, since the Times race wasn't really a Grand Prix at all! Ulmann's words angered Times publisher Otis Chandler, and only Ulmann was surprised when the biggest daily paper in Los Angeles and most of the local media completely ignored the event. The small crowd of Riverside veterans who were on hand for the race, however, were stunned by the spectacle of the F1 cars. As Brabham took the early lead into Turn One, ahead of Gurney and Moss, the Riverside radio and PA announcer could only call their names and utter, "Wow." The Coopers of Phil Hill and Olivier Gendebien stalled on the grid, but were restarted and got under way. On lap 4, Surtees spun his Lotus in front of teammate Jim Clark, putting himself out, and causing the nosecone from his car to be used to replace the now-shattered one on Clark's. Still leading, Brabham paid the price for over-reacting to last year's sputtering last lap at Sebring. Not wanting to run out of fuel again, he had overfilled his tanks, and excess fuel was spilling and being ignited by the heat of his exhaust. Two stops failed to find the source of the problem, or to assuage Brabham's concern over the noises and flames erupting from the back of the car. The Australian's troubles left Moss well in front, and when Gurney's BRM blew a core plug, Moss' teammate Bonnier took second, ahead of Ireland, Graham Hill and Texan Jim Hall, driving his first Grand Prix. Just before halfway through the 75-lap race, Graham Hill retired with a broken gearbox, and Bonnier began to drop back when a broken valve spring caused a misfire. Brabham had been charging up through the field since his pit stops, however, and eventually finished a battling fourth, behind teammate McLaren. Phil Hill ran fifth in the unfamiliar Cooper until a spin dropped him behind Bonnier, who got his ailing BRM home for two points. Moss won the last race of the two-and-a-half liter era going away, and grabbed third in the Championship for the second year in a row. It was his fourteenth victory under the outgoing regulations, one less than five-time World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio. After twice failing to realize his dream of hosting Formula One in the U.S., Ulmann generously used his own funds to cover prize and appearance fees. Winner Stirling Moss received a check for $7,500—a staggering sum at the time—and although suppliers had to wait a few months, they were paid in full. The following year, the United States Grand Prix finally found a regular home with a loyal and appreciative crowd in Watkins Glen, New York. Formula One would eventually return to California as well, with the United States Grand Prix West coming to Long Beach in 1976, just 60 miles away. Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap1 5 UK Stirling Moss Lotus-Climax 1:54.4—2 2 Australia Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 1:55.0 +0.63 16 USA Dan Gurney BRM 1:55.2 +0.84 15 Sweden Jo Bonnier BRM 1:55.6 +1.25 12 UK Jim Clark Lotus-Climax 1:55.6 +1.26 11 UK John Surtees Lotus-Climax 1:56.6 +2.27 10 UK Innes Ireland Lotus-Climax 1:57.0 +2.68 7 Belgium Olivier Gendebien Cooper-Climax 1:57.2 +2.89 6 UK Tony Brooks Cooper-Climax 1:57.2 +2.810 3 New Zealand Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 1:57.4 +3.011 17 UK Graham Hill BRM 1:57.6 +3.212 24 USA Jim Hall Lotus-Climax 1:58.2 +3.813 9 USA Phil Hill Cooper-Climax 1:58.8 +4.414 8 UK Henry Taylor Cooper-Climax 1:59.0 +4.615 14 UK Roy Salvadori Cooper-Climax 1:59.6 +5.216 26 Germany Wolfgang von Trips Cooper-Maserati 2:01.4 +7.017 21 UK Brian Naylor JBW-Maserati 2:02.2 +7.818 23 USA Chuck Daigh Scarab 2:02.6 +8.219 18 France Maurice Trintignant Cooper-Maserati 2:03.2 +8.820 25 USA Pete Lovely Cooper-Ferrari 2:03.4 +9.021 4 UK Ron Flockhart Cooper-Climax 2:04.4 +10.022 20 USA Robert Drake Maserati 2:05.4 +11.023 19 UK Ian Burgess Cooper-Maserati 2:06.6 +12.2 Source:http://www.chicanef1.com/race.pl?year=1960&gp=United%20States%20GP&r=1&type=qual 1960 United States GP Qualification www.chicanef1.com 30 July 2020 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 5 UK Stirling Moss Lotus-Climax 75 2:28:52.2 1 8 2 10 UK Innes Ireland Lotus-Climax 75 + 38.0 7 6 3 3 New Zealand Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 75 + 52.0 10 4 4 2 Australia Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 74 + 1 Lap 2 3 5 15 Sweden Jo Bonnier BRM 74 + 1 Lap 4 2 6 9 USA Phil Hill Cooper-Climax 74 + 1 Lap 13 1 7 24 USA Jim Hall Lotus-Climax 73 + 1 Lap 12   8 14 UK Roy Salvadori Cooper-Climax 73 + 2 Laps 15   9 26 Germany Wolfgang von Trips Cooper-Maserati 72 + 3 Laps 16   10 23 USA Chuck Daigh Scarab 70 + 5 Laps 18   11 25 USA Pete Lovely Cooper-Ferrari 69 + 6 Laps 20   12 7 Belgium Olivier Gendebien Cooper-Climax 69 + 6 Laps 8   13 20 USA Robert Drake Maserati 68 + 7 Laps 22   14 8 UK Henry Taylor Cooper-Climax 68 + 7 Laps 14   15 18 France Maurice Trintignant Cooper-Maserati 66 + 9 Laps 19   16 12 UK Jim Clark Lotus-Climax 61 + 14 Laps 5   Ret Retired 17 UK Graham Hill BRM 34 Gearbox 11   Ret Retired 19 UK Ian Burgess Cooper-Maserati 29 Ignition 23   Ret Retired 21 UK Brian Naylor JBW-Maserati 20 Engine 17   Ret Retired 16 USA Dan Gurney BRM 18 Blown core plug 3   Ret Retired 4 UK Ron Flockhart Cooper-Climax 11 Transmission 21   Ret Retired 6 UK Tony Brooks Cooper-Climax 6 Spun Off 9   Ret Retired 11 UK John Surtees Lotus-Climax 3 Accident 6  Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1960/652/ 1960 United States Grand Prix formula1.com 20 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20141222215003/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1960/652/ 22 December 2014 Additional information This was the Formula One World Championship debut race for American drivers Jim Hall and Bob Drake. Final Championship standings Bold text indicates the World Champions. Drivers' Championship standings PosDriverPoints 10px 1 Australia Jack Brabham 43 10px 2 New Zealand Bruce McLaren 34 (37) 10px 2 3 UK Stirling Moss 19 10px 4 UK Innes Ireland 18 10px 2 5 USA Phil Hill 16Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1960/etats-unis/championnat.aspx United States 1960 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 21 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 10px 1 UK Cooper-Climax48 (58) 10px 2 UK Lotus-Climax34 (37) 10px 3 Italy Ferrari26 (27) 10px 4 UK BRM8 10px 5 UK Cooper-Maserati3 Notes: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Only the best 6 results counted towards each Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored. References 30em External links Nye Doug The United States Grand Prix and Grand Prize Races, 1908-1977 B. T. Batsford 1978 0-7134-1263-1 Dennis Shattuck (February, 1961). "Grand Prix of the U.S.". Road & Track, 78-81. United States Grand Prix 1960 1960 Italian Grand Prix 1961 Monaco Grand Prix 1959 United States Grand Prix 1961 United States Grand Prix Category:1960 Formula One races 1960 Category:Sports in Riverside, California Category:1960 in sports in California Category:History of Riverside, California Category:1960 in American motorsport Category:November 1960 sports events in the United States