1960 Italian Grand Prix
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Autodromo Nazionale di Monza layout
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Date
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4 September 1960
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Official name
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XXXI Gran Premio d'Italia
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Location
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Autodromo Nazionale di Monza
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Monza
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Italy
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Course
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Permanent road course
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Course length
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10.000 km (6.214 miles)
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Distance
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50 laps, 500.000 km (310.686 miles)
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Weather
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Warm, dry
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Driver
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Ferrari
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Time
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2:41:4
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Driver
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Phil Hill
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Ferrari
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Time
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2:43.6
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First
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Ferrari
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Second
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Ferrari
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Third
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Ferrari
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Motor car race
The
1960 Italian Grand Prix
was a
Formula One
motor race held at
Monza
on 4 September 1960. It was race 9 of 10 in the
1960 World Championship of Drivers
and race 8 of 9 in the
1960 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers
. The race was won by American driver
Phil Hill
driving a
Ferrari 246 F1
.
Race summary
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The 1960 season had been a frustrating one for
Ferrari
's Formula One program as they campaigned their obsolete
Dino 246
, a front engined car as the rear engined design established supremacy. Due to the boycott by British teams, the championship had already been decided for
Jack Brabham
and Ferrari had gone without a victory. Seeing an opportunity, the Italian organizers decided to maximize Ferrari's one advantage ?straightline speed? by using the combined Monza road and banked oval circuit, making the fast Monza even faster.
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Citing the fragility of their cars and the dangers of the banking, the major British factory teams of the day?
Lotus
,
BRM
, and
Cooper
, all boycotted the event, leading to a cobbled together field of private entrants and
Formula 2
cars. Because of this boycott by the British teams, none of the drivers who started the race had previously won a Formula One World Championship Grand Prix.
The race was a processional affair, with Ginther leading at the start and eventually being overtaken by Hill. The pair with teammate
Willy Mairesse
raced on to a rare 1?2?3 team result for
Scuderia Ferrari
. The boycott also allowed
Scuderia Castellotti
to score its only world championship points with
Giulio Cabianca
finishing fourth in his
Cooper T51
, two laps behind Hill and ahead of Scuderia Ferrari's fourth entry,
Wolfgang von Trips
in a 1.5 L-engined (conforming to F2 regulations)
Ferrari 156 F2
car.
It was the first victory by an American driver in a Grand Prix since
Jimmy Murphy
in 1921, and, excluding the Indy 500, the first by an American in the
Formula One World Championship
.
It was the last Formula One World Championship victory by a front-engined car, although the
Ferguson P99
won the non-championship
Gold Cup
at Oulton Park in 1961.
Classification
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Qualifying
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Race
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Additional information
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This was
Phil Hill
's first win and his first pole position in his Formula One World Championship career, and also the first pole position for an American driver (excluding the Indianapolis 500 races).
It was the Formula One World Championship debut race for Italian drivers
Alfonso Thiele
and
Piero Drogo
, British drivers
Arthur Owen
and
Vic Wilson
, and for American driver
Fred Gamble
.
Championship standings after the race
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- Drivers' Championship standings
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- Constructors' Championship standings
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- Notes
: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Only the best 6 results counted towards each Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.
References
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