1958 Monaco Grand Prix
43°44′4.74″N 7°25′16.8″E / 43.7346500°N 7.421333°E
1958 Monaco Grand Prix | |||||
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Race details | |||||
Date | 18 May 1958 | ||||
Official name | XVI Grand Prix Automobile | ||||
Location | Circuit de Monaco | ||||
Course | Street Circuit | ||||
Course length | 3.145 km (1.954 miles) | ||||
Distance | 100 laps, 314.5 km (195.4 miles) | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver |
Vanwall | ||||
Time | 1:39.8 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | |||
Time | 1:40.6 | ||||
Podium | |||||
First | Cooper-Climax | ||||
Second | Ferrari | ||||
Third | Ferrari | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 1958 Monaco Grand Prix was a
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. Trintignant took the teams newly acquired Cooper T45 to a twenty-second victory over Italian driver Luigi Musso driving a Ferrari 246 F1 with Musso's British teammate Peter Collins (Ferrari 246 F1) was third.
Trintignant's win put the superiority of front-engined cars in doubt. Musso's second place put him into a four-point championship lead over Moss and Trintignant.
Race report
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. Fangio himself was in America, preparing for an ultimately disappointing Indianapolis 500 campaign with the Dayton-Walther team. Future Formula One impresario Bernie Ecclestone entered two Connaught B-Types to be driven by Ken Kavanagh 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.
Trintignant's win disproved the belief that rear-engined Cooper victory achieved by Stirling Moss in Argentina was a one-off freak circumstance win, and the smaller British cars would be treated more seriously, although ultimately a Cooper would not win again until 1959. 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 |
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1 | 30 | Tony Brooks | Vanwall
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1:39.8 | |
2 | 6 | Jean Behra | BRM | 1:40.8 | +1.0 |
3 | 16 | Jack Brabham | Cooper–Climax | 1:41.0 | +1.2 |
4 | 18 | Roy Salvadori | Cooper–Climax | 1:41.0 | +1.2 |
5 | 20 | Maurice Trintignant | Cooper–Climax | 1:41.1 | +1.3 |
6 | 38 | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari | 1:41.5 | +1.7 |
7 | 32 | Stuart Lewis-Evans | Vanwall
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1:41.8 | +2.0 |
8 | 28 | Stirling Moss | Vanwall
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1:42.3 | +2.5 |
9 | 36 | Peter Collins | Ferrari | 1:42.4 | +2.6 |
10 | 34 | Luigi Musso | Ferrari | 1:42.6 | +2.8 |
11 | 8 | Harry Schell | BRM | 1:43.8 | +4.0 |
12 | 40 | Wolfgang von Trips | Ferrari | 1:44.3 | +4.5 |
13 | 24 | Cliff Allison | Lotus–Climax | 1:44.6 | +4.8 |
14 | 46 | Giorgio Scarlatti | Maserati
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1:44.7 | +4.9 |
15 | 26 | Graham Hill | Lotus–Climax | 1:45.0 | +5.2 |
16 | 58 | Jo Bonnier | Maserati
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1:45.0 | +5.2 |
17 | 22 | Ron Flockhart | Cooper–Climax | 1:45.9 | +6.1 |
18 | 50 | Ken Kavanagh | Maserati
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1:49.0 | +9.2 |
19 | 48 | Gerino Gerini | Maserati
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1:49.8 | +10.0 |
20 | 12 | Bruce Kessler | Connaught–Alta | 1:50.5 | +10.7 |
21 | 14 | Paul Emery | Connaught–Alta | 1:50.8 | +11.0 |
22 | 44 | Maria Teresa de Filippis | Maserati
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1:50.8 | +11.0 |
23 | 56 | André Testut | Maserati
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1:51.4 | +11.6 |
24 | 52 | Giulio Cabianca | O.S.C.A. | 1:52.0 | +12.2 |
25 | 54 | Luigi Piotti | O.S.C.A. | 1:52.4 | +12.6 |
26 | 42 | Horace Gould | Maserati
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1:54.0 | +14.2 |
DNQ | 12 | Bernie Ecclestone | Connaught–Alta | 2:43.3 | +1:03.5 |
DNQ | 50 | Luigi Taramazzo | Maserati
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No time | |
DNQ | 56 | Louis Chiron | Maserati
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No time | |
DNQ | 4 | Paco Godia | Maserati
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No time | |
Source:[1] |
Race
- Notes
- ^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
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
- ^ "1958 Monaco Grand Prix – Qualifying". Motorsport Stats. 26 September 2019.
- ^ "1958 Monaco Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ "1958 Monaco Grand Prix". formula1.com. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Monaco 1958 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 19 March 2019.