1960 British GP

## Track Facts

* Name – Silverstone
* Location – UK
* Corners – 8
* Laps – 77
* Base (Worst) Lap Time – 2:00.000
* Lap Record (Real Life) – 1:34.400 (Graham Hill)
* Lap Record (F1R) – 1:29.037 (Graham Hill – Janne Väänänen)
* Pit Lane Length – 30 seconds\*
* Fuel Consumption – Low
* Tyre Wear – Medium

\*Note that this season pit-stops will last longer than in previous seasons; this number represents the time it takes to travel down the pit-lane NOT including the time you will spend stationary.

## Qualifying & Grid

After scoring his 1st points of the season last time out, Bonnier makes it 2 Pole Positions in the space of 3 races - and this now makes him the 2nd greatest driver of all time in F1R when it comes to Pole Positions!!! Though Gerard's total of 24 may be a little tough to catch, considering this is only his 5th ever…

Maserati make it a 1-2 at the front, with Gurney next up - though von Trips prevents the 1-2-3 by putting his 3rd on the grid and showing that his Championship challenge is still very much on despite losing the Championship lead to Gregory last time out. However, the BRM team have a horror show of a qualifying session at their home race, with home favourite Graham Hill 17th, Phil Hill 18th and Gregory miles off the pace in 22nd position on the grid!

By contrast Ferrari not only have von Trips 3rd, but home racers Gould and Naylor in 5th and 6th overall! They are followed by a trio of Brits driving British cars, with Salvadori, Flockhart and Brooks locking out Top 10 grid slots for Aston Martin, with Brabham once again out-performing the Cooper (compared to Surtees 13th and Bianchi way off the pace in 28th after failing to get out in time to complete all his laps!) to put it 10th on the grid.

Speaking of out-performing your machinery brings us to Barth who, after missing last race entirely, is back with a bang in an incredible 12th place for Scarab - with team-mates Taylor and Menditeguy in 27th and 29th, which makes this the 1st race of the season where all 3 Scarab cars make the grid! By contrast Porsche (also for the 1st time this season) have no cars on the grid as they, along with long-time absentee Hall, fail to set a single lap…which is all it would have needed to be part of the race.

Elsewhere on the grid, Clark qualifies far better than in recent races in 11th, with the Vanwall's in 14th to 16th (Fairman and Ireland at their home race leading Mairesse), the Lotus outfit looking somewhat competitive in places 19, 20 and 23 on the grid (for Allison, Moss and Gamble - with the leading duo at their home race). Finally, JBW line up 21st (Greene - at his home race), 24th (de Beaufort), 25th (Burgess - also at his home race) and 26th (Scarlatti) in what promises to be a thrilling race, with the rain that dogged qualifying set to disappear at some point in the proceedings…!

## Race Link

Maserati and Ferrari looked like the class of the field in qualifying - but with rain pouring down, there are no guarantees when it comes to the race…and with some gaps in the clouds in the distance, who knows when the rain will cease later in the race…?!?

https://1960.f1revisited.co.uk/results/silverstone/1960/AYe8ONhVSuYO86Ww

## Race Results

Brabham cross the line to take his 6th win of his F1R career by nearly 30 seconds, as he moves just 1 point behind former team-mate von Trips (thanks to taking Fastest Lap here also) and certainly back into Championship contention.

Speaking of the Championship, what appeared to be a day to forget for Gregory turns into a brilliant day - with his lead now out to 7 points after his 2nd place finish today! Though still that win eludes him…

Completing the podium is Gurney, who ensures that Maserati have at least something to show for their dominance in qualifying.

In the battle for 4th they are neck and neck coming out of Abbey, but through Woodcote Phil Hill just risks a little more to carry the speed around the outside…and take the position!!! Fabulous racing right until the last sees the BRM in 4th, from Surtees 5th (keeping his own championship hopes still just alive) and Graham Hill picking up the final point today.

Von Trips comes home 7th after a day Ferrari will want to put behind them, with Naylor 8th, Salvadori 9th, Brooks 10th, Bonnier a devastated 11th, Flockhart 12th, de Beaufort a creditable 13th for his best finish of the season ahead of Barth in 14th for Scarab to score his best finish also!

Gould is a lowly 15th, with Burgess 16th, the luckless McLaren 17th, Mairesse 18th, Fairman 19th and Scarlatti rounding out the Top 20 for JBW.

Greene, Taylor, Moss, Clark, Bianchi, Allison, Ireland, Gamble (albeit pushing his car over the line!) and Menditeguy complete the finishers today.

The next race will be the Portuguese GP at Boavista…

## Race Setups

**How close setups were to perfect - WET**

**How close setups were to perfect - DRY**

## Milestones

* Salvadori celebrates his 60th race entry – a mark that only he has reached. He has committed to reaching at least 70 in his professional career already (meaning at least 1 more season in F1R!).
* Moss’s 58th race entry moves him up to 2nd for Most Entries Ever at the expense of Bob Gerard, and he has also committed to another season of F1R!
* Flockhart’s 46th race entry moves him up to 8th for Most Entries Ever at the expense of Hans Herrmann. By contrast he has announced that unless he wins the overall title, he will retire at the end of this season…
* 40th race entry for Menditeguy
* Fairman moves up to 7th for Most Starts ever, at the expense of Toulo de Graffenried
* Flockhart moves into the Top 10 for Most Starts ever at the expense of Jean Behra
* This was de Beaufort’s 30th F1R start
* This was Gregory’s 20th F1R start
* Brabham’s win from 10th is the 7th lowest starting grid slot to win a race from in F1R history! That means the British GP in the last 3 seasons has been won from 10th, 15th and 17th positions on the grid…
* 5 of the 10 British Grand Prix ever have been won by just two drivers; Bob Gerard (retired) in 1954, 1956 and 1957 preceded by Paul Pietsch (retired) in 1950 and 1953; while other former winners are Yves-Girard Cabantous (retired) in 1951, Élie Bayol in 1952 (retired), Ken Wharton in 1955 (retired), Dick Gibson (retired) in 1958 and Brabham last season.
* Brabham winning this season makes him only the 6th driver to achieve multiple race wins in one country, while only the 3rd to manage it in consecutive seasons.
* Brabham moves up to 8th for Most Points ever, at the expense of Toulo de Graffenried
* Gregory scores his 5th race in a row in the points (something only 6 other drivers have ever achieved)
* FL for Brabham moves him into the Top 10 for Most Fastest Laps, at the expense of Gregory
* FL at the British GP last time out was von Trips and in 1958 it was Graham Hill (the only current drivers on the grid to have achieved that particular feat), while in 1956 and 1957 it was Bob Gerard (retired) and other past FLs were Peter Whitehead (’53 and ‘54 – retired), Ken Wharton (’55 – retired), Élie Bayol (‘52 – retired), Yves-Girard Cabantous (’51 – retired) and Giuseppe Farina (’50 – retired)
* Pole at the British GP in 1959 was Bonnier and in 1958 was Salvadori, while past Pole-Sitters were Yves-Girard Cabantous (’50 & ’51 – retired), Bob Gerard (’56 and ’57 – retired), Ken Wharton (’55 – retired), Herrmann Lang (’54 – retired), Peter Whitehead (’53 – retired) and Paul Pietsch (’52 – retired)
* Pole for Bonnier for the 2nd season in succession moves him into the Top 10 for Most Pole Positions at the same Grand Prix, becoming only the 4th man to achieve that feat (after Gerard, Cabantous and McLaren)
* Podium for Gregory moves him into 9th for Most Podiums ever at the expense of Salvadori
* Podium for Gurney is the 1st F1R podium of his career
* Podium for Gregory makes it two consecutive Podium finishes for him, for the 2nd time this season!