1958 Monaco Grand Prix

February 2021 43 44 4.74 N 7 25 16.8 E scale:1563_type:landmark_region:MC title F1 Monaco Monaco XVI Grand Prix Automobile Monte Carlo Formula 1 track map (1955-1962).svg 18 May 1958 1958 Argentine Grand Prix 1958 Dutch Grand Prix Circuit de Monaco Street Circuit 1.954 3.145 100 195.4 314.5 Tony Brooks Vanwall 1:39.8 UK Mike Hawthorn Ferrari 1:40.6 UK Maurice Trintignant Cooper-Climax France Luigi Musso Ferrari Italy Peter Collins Ferrari UK MON thumb|right|Lotus 12, chassis no 353, (pictured above in 2010) was driven by Graham Hill in his Grand Prix debut at Monaco in 1958 The 1958 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 18 May 1958 at Monaco. It was race 2 of 11 in the 1958 World Championship of Drivers and race 2 of 10 in the 1958 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was the 16th Monaco Grand Prix and was held over 100 laps of the three kilometre circuit for a total race distance of 314 kilometres. The race was won by French driver Maurice Trintignant in the second and final Grand Prix victory of his long career. The win was the second consecutive victory for the privateer Rob Walker Racing Team and its Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout Cooper-Climax cars which in January had won the 1958 Argentine Grand Prix that was only contested by 10 cars. The team gambled on not needing a pit stop for new tyres, which the competitors did not realise in time to chase down the underpowered Cooper with its worn tyres, thus Stirling Moss won on a shoe string. He also won the 1958 BARC Aintree 200 in which Coopers dominated. In Monaco, the disadvantage of the still undersized 2000 cc Climax FPF engine compared to fullsize 2500cc F1 engines could be matched by lower weight and better handling. Three of the new Cooper T45 qualified among the top 5, and it was Trintignant who took the teams newly acquired Cooper T45 to a twenty-second victory over Italian driver Luigi Musso driving a Ferrari 246 F1 while Musso's British teammate Peter Collins (Ferrari 246 F1) was third. Already in the 1936 Monaco Grand Prix, the mid-engine Auto Union racing cars had scored podium finishes and fastest lap, yet it took 20 more years until this layout showed up again in Grand Prix racing. Trintignant's win put the superiority of front-engined cars in doubt, but with the engine still under size, only two more podium finishes followed later in the year. Musso's second second place put him into a four-point championship lead over race winners Moss and Trintignant who failed to score additional points. Race report Vanwall and BRM returned after their Argentine absence and so Stirling Moss, Jean Behra and Harry Schell all went back to their regular drives. In Moss's place at the Rob Walker Racing Team with the new 2000 cc engined Cooper T45 was French driver Maurice Trintignant. The race winning Cooper T43 could not even qualify for the small 16-car Monaco grid, Ron Flockhart was first reserve for the race. Missing from the field was the previous year's winner and reigning World Champion, Juan Manuel Fangio who did not have a full-season drive, but in January had set pole and fastest lap in his home GP, driving a private Maserati, before he won the Formula Libre 1958 Buenos Aires Grand Prix and subsequently was kidnapped in Cuba. Fangio remained in America, preparing for an ultimately disappointing Indianapolis 500 campaign with two cars. Future Formula One impresario Bernie Ecclestone entered two Connaught B-Types to be driven by Bruce Kessler and Paul Emery. Neither could qualify complaining of handling problems so Bernie Ecclestone tested one of the cars to see if he could help identify the cause, but he couldn't. This has given rise to the widely circulated story that he attempted unsuccessfully to qualify. Also failing to make the grid were Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first female driver to enter a World Championship Grand Prix, and 58-year-old Louis Chiron in his final appearance at a Grand Prix. The Monaco local had won the Grand Prix 27 years earlier but Chiron and his Maserati 250F did not make it past qualifying. Tony Brooks took pole position in his Vanwall VW 5 but Behra won the start. He led until his brakes failed in his BRM P25, and Mike Hawthorn swept by in the Ferrari 246 F1. Moss (Vanwall VW 5) had been duelling with him throughout the race until he retired on lap 38, and Hawthorn followed suit on lap 47 with a broken fuel pump. Graham Hill, a future winner, briefly led the race and retired his Lotus 12-Climax from fourth place in his first race on lap 69. Vanwall pair Brooks and Stuart Lewis-Evans retired, too, leaving Trintignant to lead home the Ferraris by some 20 seconds giving Rob Walker his second race win of the year. Behind the Ferraris of Luigi Musso and Peter Collins was Jack Brabham in the factory Cooper T45, although three laps down and still looking a long way from becoming the next years champion. Schell in his BRM P25 was a further six laps behind Brabham picking up the final points after Wolfgang von Trips had an engine failure in the closing stages in his Ferrari 246 F1. The only other car still circulating was the second Lotus 12 of Cliff Allison, 13 laps behind Trintignant. Trintignant's win disproved the belief that rear-engined Cooper victory achieved by Stirling Moss in Argentina was only a one-off freak circumstance win, and the smaller British cars would be treated more seriously, although ultimately a Cooper would not win another WC race until 1959. Another British newcomer, Vanwall, with a full size engine mounted in the front, would dominate the remainder of the season, with BRM and Lotus being future winners, too. The Rob Walker Racing Teams pair of early 1958 victories would remain the best ever performance by a privateer team until the rise of Tyrrell Racing in the late 1960s. Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap 1 30 GBR Tony Brooks Vanwall 1:39.8 2 6 FRA Jean Behra BRM 1:40.8 +1.0 3 16 AUS Jack Brabham Cooper–Climax 1:41.0 +1.2 4 18 GBR Roy Salvadori Cooper–Climax 1:41.0 +1.2 5 20 FRA Maurice Trintignant Cooper–Climax 1:41.1 +1.3 6 38 GBR Mike Hawthorn Ferrari 1:41.5 +1.7 7 32 GBR Stuart Lewis-Evans Vanwall 1:41.8 +2.0 8 28 GBR Stirling Moss Vanwall 1:42.3 +2.5 9 36 GBR Peter Collins Ferrari 1:42.4 +2.6 10 34 ITA Luigi Musso Ferrari 1:42.6 +2.8 11 8 USA 1912 Harry Schell BRM 1:43.8 +4.0 12 40 West Germany Wolfgang von Trips Ferrari 1:44.3 +4.5 13 24 GBR Cliff Allison Lotus–Climax 1:44.6 +4.8 14 46 ITA Giorgio Scarlatti Maserati 1:44.7 +4.9 15 26 GBR Graham Hill Lotus–Climax 1:45.0 +5.2 16 58 SWE Jo Bonnier Maserati 1:45.0 +5.2 17 22 GBR Ron Flockhart Cooper–Climax 1:45.9 +6.1 18 50 AUS Ken Kavanagh Maserati 1:49.0 +9.2 19 48 ITA Gerino Gerini Maserati 1:49.8 +10.0 20 12 USA 1912 Bruce Kessler Connaught–Alta 1:50.5 +10.7 21 14 GBR Paul Emery Connaught–Alta 1:50.8 +11.0 22 44 ITA Maria Teresa de Filippis Maserati 1:50.8 +11.0 23 56 MCO André Testut Maserati 1:51.4 +11.6 24 52 ITA Giulio Cabianca O.S.C.A. 1:52.0 +12.2 25 54 ITA Luigi Piotti O.S.C.A. 1:52.4 +12.6 26 42 GBR Horace Gould Maserati 1:54.0 +14.2 DNQ Did not qualify 12 GBR Bernie Ecclestone Connaught–Alta 2:43.3 +1:03.5 DNQ Did not qualify 50 ITA Luigi Taramazzo Maserati No time DNQ Did not qualify 56 MCO Louis Chiron Maserati No time DNQ Did not qualify 4 ESP 1945 Paco Godia Maserati No time Source:https://results.motorsportstats.com/results/1958-monaco-grand-prix/classification/da8e206b-fddb-4731-a4ad-a3e6db0b7e85 1958 Monaco Grand Prix – Qualifying Motorsport Stats 26 September 2019 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 20 France Maurice Trintignant Cooper-Climax 100 2:52:27.9 5 8 2 34 Italy Luigi Musso Ferrari 100 +20.2 secs 10 6 3 36 UK Peter Collins Ferrari 100 +38.8 secs 9 4 4 16 Australia Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 97 +3 Laps 3 3 5 8 United States 1912 Harry Schell BRM 91 +9 Laps 12 2 6 24 UK Cliff Allison Lotus-Climax 87 +13 Laps 13 Ret Retired 40 West Germany Wolfgang von Trips Ferrari 91 Engine 11 Ret Retired 58 Sweden Jo Bonnier Maserati 71 Accident 16 Ret Retired 26 UK Graham Hill Lotus-Climax 69 Halfshaft 15 Ret Retired 18 UK Roy Salvadori Cooper-Climax 56 Gearbox 4 Ret Retired 38 UK Mike Hawthorn Ferrari 47 Fuel pump 6 11 1 Ret Retired 28 UK Stirling Moss Vanwall 38 Engine 8 Ret Retired 6 France Jean Behra BRM 29 Brakes 2 Ret Retired 46 Italy Giorgio Scarlatti Maserati 28 Engine 14 Ret Retired 30 UK Tony Brooks Vanwall 22 Engine 1 Ret Retired 32 UK Stuart Lewis-Evans Vanwall 11 Overheating 7 DNQ Did not qualify 22 UK Ron Flockhart Cooper-Climax DNQ Did not qualify 50 Australia Ken Kavanagh Maserati DNQ Did not qualify 48 Italy Gerino Gerini Maserati DNQ Did not qualify 12 United States 1912 Bruce Kessler Connaught-Alta DNQ Did not qualify 14 UK Paul Emery Connaught-Alta DNQ Did not qualify 44 Italy Maria Teresa de Filippis Maserati DNQ Did not qualify 56 Monaco André Testut Maserati DNQ Did not qualify 52 Italy Giulio Cabianca Osca DNQ Did not qualify 54 Italy Luigi Piotti Osca DNQ Did not qualify 42 UK Horace Gould Maserati DNQ Did not qualify 10 UK Ron Flockhart BRM DNQ Did not qualify 12 UK Bernie Ecclestone Connaught-Alta DNQ Did not qualify 50 Italy Luigi Taramazzo Maserati DNQ Did not qualify 56 Monaco Louis Chiron Maserati DNQ Did not qualify 4 Spain 1945 Paco Godia Maserati Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1958/679/ 1958 Monaco Grand Prix formula1.com 16 August 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20141031171344/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1958/679/ 31 October 2014https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1958/races/159/monaco.html 1958 Monaco Grand Prix formula1.com 9 November 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181109193740/https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1958/races/159/monaco.html 9 November 2018 dead Notes 1 1 – 1 point for fastest lap Additional information This was the debut World Championship race for Cliff Allison, future double world champion and five time Monaco winner Graham Hill, Ken Kavanagh, Bruce Kessler, Maria Teresa de Filippis, André Testut, Giulio Cabianca, Bernie Ecclestone, and Luigi Taramazzo. It also marked the debut race for Team Lotus in Formula One. Luigi Musso scored his final podium and points this race, while Maurice Trintignant claimed his final victory. Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings PosDriverPoints 10px 1 1 Italy Luigi Musso 12 10px 1 2 UK Stirling Moss 8 10px 8 3 France Maurice Trintignant 8 10px 1 4 UK Mike Hawthorn 5 10px 5 5 UK Peter Collins 4Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1958/monaco/championnat.aspx Monaco 1958 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 19 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 10px 1 UK Cooper-Climax 16 10px 2 Italy Ferrari 12 10px 3 Italy Maserati 3 10px 4 UK BRM 2Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. References 30em Monaco Grand Prix 1958 1958 Argentine Grand Prix 1958 Dutch Grand Prix 1957 Monaco Grand Prix 1959 Monaco Grand Prix Monaco Grand Prix Category:Monaco Grand Prix Grand Prix Monaco Grand Prix