Formula 1 was started the decade of 60 a new title for Jack Brabham, and more and more power in cars.
The cars at the end of the previous decade had reached an unusual development in speed and performance had risen to 300 km / h in faster circuits, the result of powers and also roamed 300 hp.
This to cars of only a half ton, rudimentary suspension that count, and began to turn into deadly trap. In the days of "gentlemen drivers", the danger lurking in every fence, embankment, tree, sign or portion of asphalt old. Only
from recent years began to be felt security progress, largely thanks to the crusade launched by Jackie Stewart in 1966. The Pilots Association (Grand Prix Drivers Association) was on the other hand to help strengthen brotherhood among the pilots, perhaps because of the 162 pilots who played a GP go for the F-1 in this decade, 25 lost life in various motor sport competitions during the same ...
In 1960 it was clear that the technical superiority of the rear-engined cars and almost all the teams adopted Anglo-Saxon, would be definitive and the more traditional Ferrari looked like they had to settle for the crumbs to a new model expected to quit the front engine to the 1961 season.
Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren repeated again with Cooper, to master an even more overwhelming the championship the previous year. Indeed the young McLaren to victory in the inaugural Test in Argentina, while Stirling Moss who had joined the ranks of Lotus struggled hard, (as it was usual) to get the win in Monaco. However, to reach the GP of the Netherlands, Brabham became the batteries and started a five-game winning streak that led him to the championship.
In the next test (the Belgian GP at Spa-Francorchamps) "Black Jack" came to dominate so insulting without losing the lead of the test at any time. The race was marked by two fatal accidents that claimed the lives of Chris Bristow (Cooper) and Alan Stacey (Lotus), the latter to the impact on a bird's face when he went to almost 300. Also Innes Ireland (Lotus) had to leave after taking in the endless shift of a spin manifold Burnenville over 200 meters long. In previous training two Lotus drivers, Michael Taylor and "jinx" Stirling Moss had been very strong breaks accidents suspension and steering, including it both by little.
It then reflect on the thoughts that went through the head of Lotus driver only managed to finish the race, the promising young Scottish, Jim Clark, completed his second F-1 Grand Prix in fifth position. In the three races following Brabham continued to impose their law, first at the French track of Reims, then at Silverstone where he had the fortune of the abandonment of local hero, the Englishman Graham Hill with six laps to go and on the track of Oporto where is world champion after a stunning comeback. At Monza, Ferrari by Phil Hill won his only victory last year and an F-1 car engine front.
However I must say that came thanks to the boycott of its main rival teams, (mostly Anglo-Saxons) who saw the track unsafe then had two banked curves and which is rolling averages above 220 km / h. The time may give them the right ... Moss finished the season with a win in California after his absence after the accident at Spa.
1960 World
1, J. Brabham (AUS / COOPER-CLIMAX) 48 pts.
2 º B. McLaren (NZ / COOPER-CLIMAX) 34 pts.
3 º S. MOSS (GBR / COOPER, Lotus-Climax) 19 pts.
4 º I. IRELAND (GBR / LOTUS-CLIMAX) 18 pts.
5 º P. HILL (USA / Ferrari) 16 pts
COOPER-CLIMAX 1, 48 pts.
2 º LOTUS-CLIMAX 34 pts.
3 º FERRARI 26 pts.
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