1960 Belgian Grand Prix
1960 Belgian Grand Prix | |||||
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Race details | |||||
Date | 19 June 1960 | ||||
Official name | XXI Grote Prijs Van Belgie | ||||
Location | Spa-Francorchamps, Francorchamps, Belgium | ||||
Course | Grand Prix Circuit | ||||
Course length | 14.12 km (8.774 miles) | ||||
Distance | 36 laps, 508.32 km (315.864 miles) | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver | Cooper-Climax | ||||
Time | 3:50.0 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver |
Jack Brabham Innes Ireland Phil Hill |
Cooper-Climax Lotus-Climax Ferrari | |||
Time | 3:51.9 | ||||
Podium | |||||
First | Cooper-Climax | ||||
Second | Cooper-Climax | ||||
Third | Cooper-Climax | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 1960 Belgian Grand Prix was a
Practice and race laps 1-19
Practice for the event saw
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 four-foot high embankment and was thrown from his car, and landed on a barbed wire which beheaded him.
Five laps later, Alan Stacey was hit in the face by a bird at Masta, causing his car to crash, then somersault off the track and land 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. 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.[1]
Classification
Qualifying
Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Time | Gap |
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1 | 2 | Jack Brabham | Cooper-Climax | 3:50.0 | — |
2 | 38 | Tony Brooks | Cooper-Climax | 3:52.5 | +2.5 |
3 | 12 | Stirling Moss | Lotus-Climax | 3:52.6 | +2.6 |
4 | 24 | Phil Hill | Ferrari | 3:53.3 | +3.3 |
5 | 34 | Olivier Gendebien | Cooper-Climax | 3:53.5 | +3.5 |
6 | 10 | Graham Hill | BRM
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3:54.2 | +4.2 |
7 | 6 | Jo Bonnier | BRM
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3:54.8 | +4.8 |
8 | 14 | Innes Ireland | Lotus-Climax | 3:55.4 | +5.4 |
9 | 36 | Chris Bristow | Cooper-Climax | 3:56.3 | +6.3 |
10 | 18 | Jim Clark | Lotus-Climax | 3:57.5 | +7.5 |
11 | 26 | Wolfgang von Trips | Ferrari | 3:57.8 | +7.8 |
12 | 8 | Dan Gurney | BRM
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3:58.3 | +8.3 |
13 | 22 | Willy Mairesse | Ferrari | 3:58.9 | +8.9 |
14 | 4 | Bruce McLaren | Cooper-Climax | 4:00.0 | +10.0 |
15 | 32 | Lucien Bianchi | Cooper-Climax | 4:00.6 | +10.6 |
16 | 28 | Lance Reventlow | Scarab | 4:09.7 | +19.7 |
17 | 16 | Alan Stacey | Lotus-Climax | 4:17.6 | +27.6 |
18 | 30 | Chuck Daigh | Scarab | 4:18.5 | +28.5 |
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Race
Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 2 | Jack Brabham | Cooper-Climax | 36 | 2:21:37.3 | 1 | 8 |
2 | 4 | Bruce McLaren | Cooper-Climax | 36 | + 1:03.3 | 14 | 6 |
3 | 34 | Olivier Gendebien | Cooper-Climax | 35 | + 1 Lap | 5 | 4 |
4 | 24 | Phil Hill | Ferrari | 35 | + 1 Lap | 4 | 3 |
5 | 18 | Jim Clark | Lotus-Climax | 34 | + 2 Laps | 10 | 2 |
6 | 32 | Lucien Bianchi | Cooper-Climax | 28 | + 8 Laps | 15 | 1 |
Ret | 10 | Graham Hill | BRM
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35 | Engine | 6 | |
Ret | 16 | Alan Stacey | Lotus-Climax | 24 | Fatal accident | 17 | |
Ret | 22 | Willy Mairesse | Ferrari | 23 | Transmission | 13 | |
Ret | 26 | Wolfgang von Trips | Ferrari | 22 | Transmission | 11 | |
Ret | 36 | Chris Bristow | Cooper-Climax | 19 | Fatal accident | 9 | |
Ret | 30 | Chuck Daigh | Scarab | 16 | Engine | 18 | |
Ret | 6 | Jo Bonnier | BRM
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14 | Engine | 7 | |
Ret | 14 | Innes Ireland | Lotus-Climax | 13 | Spun Off/Clutch | 8 | |
Ret | 8 | Dan Gurney | BRM
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4 | Engine | 12 | |
Ret | 38 | Tony Brooks | Cooper-Climax | 2 | Gearbox | 2 | |
Ret | 28 | Lance Reventlow | Scarab | 1 | Engine | 16 | |
DNS | 12 | Stirling Moss | Lotus-Climax | Accident | 3 | ||
DNS | 20 | Mike Taylor
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Lotus-Climax | Accident | |||
Source:[3]
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Additional information
This was the Formula One World Championship debut race for Belgian driver Willy Mairesse.
Championship standings after the race
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- Notes: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
- ISBN 1-84425-223-X
- ^ "1960 Belgian GP - ChicaneF1.com". www.chicanef1.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ^ "1960 Belgian Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ^ a b "Belgium 1960 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 12 March 2019.