The race saw the World Championship debuts of Jo Bonnier, Les Leston and Wolfgang von Trips and the final World Championship appearances for Hermano da Silva Ramos, Toulo de Graffenried, Robert Manzon, Piero Taruffi and Luigi Villoresi.
Alfonso de Portago se je prvič uvrstil na stopničke, Jack Fairman in Horace Gould pa med dobitnike točk.