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1957年英国大奖赛优胜车手 莫斯 (Stirling Moss) 驾驶着他的 万沃尔 (Vanwall)
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1957年英国大奖赛 - 在安特里（Aintree）赛道舉行。在1955年和1962年间，比赛在靠近利物浦的安特里赛道举办过五次英国大奖赛，这条赛道正好靠近著名的赛马场，全国越野障碍赛马每年都在那里举行。1955年，在安特里举行的第一场比赛发展成为了那个时代两位伟大车手之间最令人难忘的竞赛。传说中的胡安-曼纽尔-范吉奥 (Juan Manuel Fangio) 和年轻的斯特灵-莫斯 (Stirling Moss) 这两位传奇人物都效力于梅塞德兹车队，在那个时候占有统治性地位的车队。莫斯以0.2秒的领先从经验比他丰富的队友手中拿到了杆位。在比赛中，两人的速度都非常快。范吉奥和第三名卡尔-克林之间在抵达终点时的差距超过了一分钟。而渴望赢得胜利的莫斯则是以最微弱的领先让自己成为了第一个赢得英国大奖赛的英国人。比赛之后，有传言说是范吉奥故意让自己的队友在家乡赛中获胜，但阿根廷人从未证实这一点。更进一步，比赛也标志着杰克-布拉布汉姆 (Jack Brabham) 的出场，虽然他的库珀-布里斯托尔退赛，没能让他把车开到终点。安特里赛道见证过几场激动人心的比赛，由于莫斯获得了另外一场比赛的胜利。这次 (1957年) 是和在万沃尔 (Vanwall) 车队的英国同胞托尼-布鲁克斯 (Tony Brooks) 分享 。布拉布汉姆在1959年获胜，他本可以在同一年成为世界冠军。1961年，法拉利车队的沃尔夫岗-凡-切普斯、费尔-希尔和瑞切-吉瑟分别拿到了第一、第二和第三名。在这里举行的最后一场大奖赛是在1962年，吉姆-克拉克 (Jim Clark) 驾驶着他的莲花-克莱曼克斯轻松取胜，比驾驶罗拉-克莱曼克斯取得第二名的约翰-舒特斯快了49秒穿过终点。(http://f1.sports.sohu.com/20060605/n243575591.shtml)<p></p></P>
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Sir Stirling Moss OBE (born September 17, 1929 in London) is a British former racing driver from England. His success in a variety of categories placed him among the world's elite - he is often called "the greatest driver never to win the World Championship". Moss, who raced from 1948 to 1962, won 194 of the 497 races he entered, including 16 Formula One Grands Prix. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_Moss)</P>
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Vanwall was a Formula One team in the 1950's. The Vanwall name was derived by combining the name of the team owner Tony Vandervell with that of his patented Thinwall bearings, which were produced at his Vandervell Products factory at Acton, just outside London. The first actual Vanwalls were known as Vanwall Specials and were built for the new Formula 1 regulations in 1954 at Cox Green,Maidenhead. The chassis was designed by Owen Maddock and built by the Cooper Car Company. The 2.0 L engine was designed by Norton engineer Leo Kuzmicki, and was essentially four Norton single-cylinder 500cc engines merged into a single unit. The car appeared in a Grande Epreuve for the first time in that year's British Grand Prix. Development continued with boring out the engines to a full 2.5 L. Vanwalls then ran for a season in F1 without much in the way of success. At the end of the 1955 season, it was plain that while the engine was sound, the chassis needed improvement. It was suggested to Vandervell that he should hire the services of a young up-and-coming designer to improve their cars. The designer was Colin Chapman. The new cars designed by Chapman (along with the aerodynamicist Frank Costin) showed early promise in 1956 by winning a non-championship F1 race at Silverstone against strong opposition. Stirling Moss drove the car to victory in what was his only drive for Vanwall that year, as he was still contracted to drive for Maserati in F1. Talented drivers Harry Schell and Maurice Trintignant were the full-timers for the season. However, neither of them had much success although the car showed obvious potential. With the car developing and becoming ever more competitive, Moss eventually decided to drive for the team in 1957. He was joined by two Englishmen, Tony Brooks and Stuart Lewis-Evans. As the 1957 season unfolded, the cars became faster and more reliable. Moss and Brooks duly shared Vanwall's first Grand Prix victory in Britain at Aintree, and Moss went on to win both the Italian and Pescara Grands Prix. All three drivers stayed with the team in 1958, and Moss and Brooks each won three championship races that season. Vanwall became the first team to win the Constructors Championship, held for the first time that season. However, Moss lost out to Mike Hawthorn in the drivers' championship by a single point. Their triumph at the end of the season was sadly marred when, during the final race of the year in Morocco, Lewis-Evans was fatally injured in an accident. The 1958 season was the last one in which Vanwall entered every race. Vandervell's health was failing and he had been advised by his doctors to rest. The team continued half-heartedly. Brooks made one appearance in a lower and lighter Vanwall in the 1959 British Grand Prix and the team tried again with another car in the 1960 French Grand Prix. These efforts lacked the seriousness of the past however and they were unsuccessful. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanwall)<p></p></P>
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Aintree Racecourse is a British racecourse in Aintree, Liverpool, on Merseyside. Aintree has also been used as a venue for motor racing. Built in 1954 as the "Goodwood of the North", hence the fact the two venues has so many things in common. The British Grand Prix was staged there on five occasions, in 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961 and 1962. Aintree was the location for the famous race in 1955 in which Stirling Moss won his first British Grand Prix, driving a Mercedes. Two years later, he and Tony Brooks (sharing the Vanwall) became the first British drivers to win both the British Grand Prix and a round of the Formula 1 World Championship, whilst driving a British car, a Vanwall. The 1957 Grand Prix also took the title of Grand Prix de Europe and was the premier Formula 1 event of the season, attracting 150 000 spectators. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aintree_Racecourse) </P>
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In the lead up to the British Grand Prix patriotic fervour had continued to grow. Tony Brooks' second place in Monaco combined with the fact that Moss had started from a front row position in the same race meant that an all British victory was at hand. At Aintree Moss got the crowd excited by taking pole position and come race day an enormous crowd had gathered at the Aintree circuit, just north of Liverpool. Moss took an early lead ahead of France's Jean Behra. Twenty-one laps into the race it looked like the dream was over when Moss retired with a misfiring engine. Behra took over the lead while Brooks brought his car in and handed it over to Moss. By now Moss was back in ninth position but with 69 laps to go there was still a chance. Stirling rose to the challenge and passed car after car in what amounted to little more than a blur of lap records. By lap 60 Moss was in fifth place. The Maserati pit crews alerted Behra who upped his pace and began to match Stirling for speed. Moss passed Collins and supported by his team-mate Lewis-Evans he began to attack Hawthorn who was running in second place. On lap 69 disaster struck for Behra as his gearbox simply exploded then Hawthorn punctured a tyre on the Frenchman's debris. Suddenly Moss was in the lead, a position he held until the end of the race. For the first time a British driver had won in a British car at World Championship level. It was truly an historic day and Stirling was the pride of all Britain. (http://www.gpracing.net192.com/races/reports/61.cfm) </P> |
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