1957 Argentine Grand Prix

  1957 Argentine Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 8 in the 1957 Formula One season
Date	13 January 1957
Official name	V Gran Premio de la Republica Argentina
Location	Autódromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	3.912 km (2.431 mi)
Distance	100 laps, 391.2 km (243.1 mi)
Pole position
Driver	Stirling Moss	Maserati
Time	1:42.6
Fastest lap
Driver	Stirling Moss	Maserati
Time	1:44.7
Podium
First	Juan Manuel Fangio	Maserati
Second	Jean Behra	Maserati
Third	Carlos Menditeguy	Maserati
Lap leaders

The 1957 Argentine Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 13 January 1957 at the Buenos Aires circuit. It was the first round of the 1957 World Drivers' Championship.

Race report

Juan Manuel Fangio had left Ferrari for Maserati to attempt to win a fifth world championship with the help of their much modified 250Fs. Even without him, Ferrari had one of the strongest driver lineups in history, with Mike Hawthorn moving from BRM to join Peter Collins, Luigi Musso and Eugenio Castellotti.

Since the British teams were not present, Stirling Moss — who had signed for Vanwall — was part of the Maserati line-up with Jean Behra as third driver.

Fangio and Behra raced away into the distance as the rest of the field floundered. Moss's throttle linkage broke on the startline and he lost 10 laps having it fixed. The Ferraris were all suffering terribly with clutch problems, as both Collins and Musso burnt theirs out, whilst Hawthorn's was slipping badly.

Both Collins and Wolfgang von Trips took over Cesare Perdisa's Ferrari in an attempt to stop the Maseratis, but were powerless to stop them taking the first four places. Moss rejoined and set fastest lap on his way to 8th place.

Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	2	Juan Manuel Fangio	Maserati	100	3:00:55.9	2	8
2	6	Jean Behra	Maserati	100	+18.3 secs	3	6
3	8	Carlos Menditeguy	Maserati	99	+1 Lap	8	4
4	22	Harry Schell	Maserati	98	+2 Laps	9	3
5	20	Alfonso de Portago José Froilán González	Ferrari	98	+2 Laps	10	1 1
6	18	Cesare Perdisa Peter Collins Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	98	+2 Laps	11
7	24	Jo Bonnier	Maserati	95	+5 Laps	13
8	4	Stirling Moss	Maserati	93	+7 Laps	1	1
9	26	Alessandro de Tomaso	Ferrari	91	+9 Laps	12
10	28	Luigi Piotti	Maserati	90	+10 Laps	14
Ret	14	Eugenio Castellotti	Ferrari	75	Wheel	4
Ret	16	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	35	Clutch	7
Ret	12	Luigi Musso	Ferrari	31	Clutch	6
Ret	10	Peter Collins	Ferrari	26	Clutch	5
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Notes

• Shared Drives:
  • Car #20: Alfonso de Portago (49 laps) and José Froilán González (49 laps). They shared the 2 points for fifth place.
  • Car #18: Cesare Perdisa (30 laps), Peter Collins (35 laps) and Wolfgang von Trips (33 laps).
• Grand Prix debut for: Alessandro de Tomaso.
• Last Grand Prix appearance for: Eugenio Castellotti (who was killed 2 months later whilst testing a Ferrari at Modena), Cesare Perdisa, and Alfonso de Portago (who was killed nearly 4 months later whilst competing in the Mille Miglia).
• Career Firsts: Carlos Menditeguy (podium).

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Juan Manuel Fangio	8
2	Jean Behra	6
3	Carlos Menditeguy	4
4	Harry Schell	3
5=	Alfonso de Portago	1
5=	José Froilán González	1
5=	Stirling Moss	1

• Note: Only the top five positions are included.

Images from the race

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  Pit lane at the 1957 Argentine Grand Prix

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