TECH TUESDAY: The cunning design area that Red Bull and Aston Martin are leading the way in exploiting Up front, McLaren just beat ‘Trint’ by six-tenths of a second, and thus the New Zealand rookie sealed his debut season by scoring a memorable first Grand Prix win. He shoved the gearlever into neutral and coasted as far as the second to last corner, then began the arduous task of pushing his car to the line (which was still legal at that time). The French veteran passed the ailing Australian, who ran out of fuel a mile from the finish. With two laps to go the advantage over Trintignant was down to six seconds and frantic pit signals encouraged Brabham to pull over and wave McLaren into the lead. But in the final stages things began to go awry for Brabham, leaving McLaren unsure whether to pass him. Moss had things under control until he stopped with a gearbox problem after only five laps, and suddenly the works Coopers looked set for a one-two finish. Had Schell been put back to his correct qualifying place the outcome of the championship might have been very different as Brooks’ fate was sealed early on when he made a precautionary pit stop at the end of the opening lap having been rear-ended on the grid by team-mate von Trips. HINCH’S HEROES: Who stood out during an action-packed weekend on the streets of Jeddah? He then also let his team leader through, happy to run third. But the organisers rejected the latter’s claim that he was fit after a previous accident so, fortuitously as it would prove, McLaren took his seat.īruce left his fourth row-starring slot like a rocket to go into Turn 1 side-by-side with Moss for the lead, but wisely ceded to the established superstar. The New Zealander was already the rookie of the year but initially went along as a spectator as Charles and John Cooper preferred to save money by running only two cars for Brabham and Kansas racer Masten Gregory. Next up were Brooks’ Ferrari, Maurice Trintignant in a second Rob Walker Cooper, the other Ferraris of Phil Hill, Cliff Allison and Wolfgang von Trips, Innes Ireland’s Lotus and Brabham’s young team-mate Bruce McLaren. Much later – too late to change the grid – it transpired that the popular, fun-loving Franco-American had cut out a chunk of the track. Moss took pole from Brabham, with Harry Schell a surprise third in a similar car. STRATEGY UNPACKED: Bernie Collins dissects the fastest lap needle between Perez and Verstappen in Jeddahīack then points were scored on the basis of 8-6-4-3-2 for first to fifth, with an extra point for fastest lap. It was held on December 12, no fewer than three months after the season’s penultimate race at Monza.īut fittingly it would decide that year’s world championship, which had boiled down to a straight fight between Cooper’s Jack Brabham on 31 points, Stirling Moss in Rob Walker’s private Cooper on 25.5 and Ferrari’s Tony Brooks on 23. But it wasn’t until 1959 that the first pukka US Grand Prix for Formula 1 cars was run at Sebring International Raceway in Florida by Russian-born promoter Alec Ulmann, who had initiated the 12-hour sportscar race there in 1952.
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