page_title: 1958 1000 km Buenos Aires
section_title: Entry
hierarchical_section_title: 1958 1000 km Buenos Aires / Report / Entry
caption_attribution_description: English: Circuit Callejero - Buenos Aires 1000km (1954)
context_page_description: The 1958 1000 km Buenos Aires took place on 26 January, on the Autódromo Municipal-Avenida Paz. It was the fifth running of the race, and once again, it was opening round of the F.I.A. World Sports Car Championship. For this event, it returned to the Autódromo, after having a one-off race at the Circuito de la Costanera Norte, however its layout was not generally well received.
  The sport’s governing body, F.I.A. and its Commission Sportive Internationale dictated several technical changes to the 1958 Sports Car rule book, under teams completing now see their cars’ engines limited to three litres.
context_section_description: A grand total of 30 racing cars were registered for this event, of which all 30 arrived for practice and 26 for qualifying for the race. Although this was the first major sports car race of the year to be run since CSI’s rule changes, but as in previous years, the race was poorly supported by the works teams. Only Ferrari sent works cars from Europe. They had entered three of the stunning Ferrari 250 TRs for Peter Collins/Phil Hill, Wolfgang von Trips/Mike Hawthorn and Luigi Musso/Olivier Gendebien.
  As for the other works teams from 1957, Aston Martin opted not to do the long trek to South America, while the Jaguar D-Types were no longer eligible to under these new rules, due to their 5-litre engines. As for Maserati, it was announced that due to financial difficulties, they would not continue to operate as a works team.
caption: Autódromo Municipal-Avenida Paz - Buenos Aires 1000km
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