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1957 British Grand Prix
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Race details
Date 20 July 1957
Official name Grand Prix d'Europe incorporating the 10th RAC British Grand Prix
Location Aintree Circuit, Liverpool, England
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 4.828 km (3.000 miles)
Distance 90 laps, 434.52 km (270.00 miles)
Weather Overcast, dry.
Pole position
Driver Vanwall
Time 2:00.2
Fastest lap
Driver United Kingdom Stirling Moss Vanwall
Time 1:59.2
Podium
First Vanwall
Second Ferrari
Third Ferrari
Lap leaders
The winning Vanwall, VW5, before the start of the race. It was shared by Tony Brooks and Stirling Moss, who both played a part in scoring the constructor's first Formula One win.
All but one of the Maserati 250Fs retired from the race.

The 1957 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 20 July 1957 at the Aintree Circuit, near Liverpool. It was the tenth British Grand Prix and it was race 5 of 8 in the 1957 World Championship of Drivers. The race was won by Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks, who shared driving duties in a Vanwall. It was the third and final time that a Grand Prix had been won by two drivers in a shared car. This was the first occasion that a British constructor won a World Drivers' Championship race, a feat achieved with two British drivers at their home Grand Prix.

Classification

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Qualifying

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Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap
1 18 United Kingdom Stirling Moss Vanwall 2:00.2
2 4 France Jean Behra Maserati 2:00.4 +0.2
3 20 United Kingdom Tony Brooks Vanwall 2:00.4 +0.2
4 2 Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio Maserati 2:00.6 +0.4
5 10 United Kingdom Mike Hawthorn Ferrari 2:01.2 +1.0
6 22 United Kingdom Stuart Lewis-Evans Vanwall 2:01.2 +1.0
7 6 United States Harry Schell Maserati 2:01.4 +1.2
8 12 United Kingdom Peter Collins Ferrari 2:01.8 +1.6
9 16 France Maurice Trintignant Ferrari 2:03.2 +3.0
10 14 Italy Luigi Musso Ferrari 2:03.4 +3.2
11 8 Argentina Carlos Menditeguy Maserati 2:05.4 +5.2
12 26 United Kingdom Les Leston BRM 2:05.6 +5.4
13 34 Australia Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 2:07.0 +6.8
14 30 United Kingdom Horace Gould Maserati 2:07.0 +6.8
15 36 United Kingdom Roy Salvadori Cooper-Climax 2:07.4 +7.2
16 24 United Kingdom Jack Fairman BRM 2:08.6 +8.4
17 28 Sweden Jo Bonnier Maserati 2:12.6 +12.4
18 38 United Kingdom Bob Gerard Cooper-Bristol 2:12.6 +12.4
19 32 United Kingdom Ivor Bueb Maserati 2:15.4 +15.2
Source:[1]

Race

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Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 20 United Kingdom Tony Brooks
United Kingdom Stirling Moss
Vanwall 90 3:06:37.8 3 4
51
2 14 Italy Luigi Musso Ferrari 90 +25.6 10 6
3 10 United Kingdom Mike Hawthorn Ferrari 90 +42.8 5 4
4 16 France Maurice Trintignant
United Kingdom Peter Collins
Ferrari 88 +2 laps 9 32
02
5 36 United Kingdom Roy Salvadori Cooper-Climax 85 +5 laps 15 2
6 38 United Kingdom Bob Gerard Cooper-Bristol 82 +8 laps 18
7 22 United Kingdom Stuart Lewis-Evans Vanwall 82 +8 laps 6
8 32 United Kingdom Ivor Bueb Maserati 71 +19 laps 19
Ret 34 Australia Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 74 Clutch 13
Ret 4 France Jean Behra Maserati 69 Clutch 2
Ret 12 United Kingdom Peter Collins Ferrari 53 Water leak 8
Ret 18 United Kingdom Stirling Moss
United Kingdom Tony Brooks
Vanwall 51 Engine 1
Ret 2 Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio Maserati 49 Engine 4
Ret 24 United Kingdom Jack Fairman BRM 46 Engine 16
Ret 26 United Kingdom Les Leston BRM 44 Engine 12
Ret 6 United States Harry Schell Maserati 39 Water pump 7
Ret 8 Argentina Carlos Menditeguy Maserati 35 Transmission 11
Ret 28 Sweden Jo Bonnier Maserati 18 Gearbox 17
DNS 30 United Kingdom Horace Gould Maserati Accident 14
Sources:[2][3]
Notes
  • ^1 – Includes 1 point for fastest lap
  • ^2 – Trintignant received all 3 points for fourth place as it was determined that Collins did not drive a significant number of laps

Notes

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  • This was the 50th World Championship Formula One race for a Maserati.
  • It was the first World Championship pole position, fastest lap, and win and Grand Slam for Vanwall (both as a constructor and as an engine supplier) and the first World Championship pole position, fastest lap and win for a British constructor and for a car powered by a British engine.

Shared drives

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Championship standings after the race

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Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
1 Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio 25
1 2 Italy Luigi Musso 13
3 3 United Kingdom Tony Brooks 10
2 4 United States Sam Hanks 8
1 5 United States Jim Rathmann 7
Source: [4]
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included.

References

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  1. ^ "1957 British GP Qualification". www.chicanef1.com. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  2. ^ "1957 British Grand Prix". formula1.com. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Grand Prix Results: British GP, 1957". GrandPrix.com. Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Britain 1957 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
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  • Jenkinson, D. 1957. The 10th British Grand Prix. Motor Sport. XXXIII/8 (August 1957), pp. 420–421, 424


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