1958 World Sportscar Championship

The 1958 World Sportscar Championship was a motor racing series for sportscars which ran from 26 January to 13 September 1958 and comprised six races in six countries. It was the sixth World Sportscar Championship.

The championship was won by Ferrari.

Season

After major accidents at the 1955 Les 24 Heures du Mans and 1957 Mille Miglia, the sport's governing body, F.I.A. and its Commission Sportive Internationale (CSI) dictated several technical changes to the 1958 Sports Car regulations with engine capacity now limited to three litres. Although Le Mans continued, the Mille Miglia was never run in its original format again and was dropped from the calendar, with the Sicilian Targa Florio replacing it as the Italian round of the championship.^[1]^[2]^[3]

This allowed Scuderia Ferrari to dominate the season, as Maserati withdrew from motor racing, leaving Aston Martin and Porsche as the main opposition, but as the previous seasons, the majority of the fields were made up of amateur or gentlemen drivers, often up against professional racing drivers with experience in Formula One.

Season results

Race results

Round	Date	Event	Circuit or Location	Winning driver	Winning team	Winning car	Results
1	January 26	1000km of Buenos Aires	Autódromo Municipal-Avenida Paz	Peter Collins Phil Hill	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 250 TR 58	Results
2	March 22	12-Hour Florida International Grand Prix of Endurance for The Amoco Trophy	Sebring International Raceway	Phil Hill Peter Collins	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 250 TR 58	Results
3	May 11	Targa Florio	Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie	Luigi Musso Olivier Gendebien	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 250 TR 58	Results
4	June 1	Internationales ADAC 1000 Kilometre Rennen Nürburgring	Nürburgring	Stirling Moss Jack Brabham	David Brown, Aston Martin Ltd.	Aston Martin DBR1/300	Results
5	June 21–22	24 Heures du Mans	Circuit de la Sarthe	Olivier Gendebien Phil Hill	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 250 TR 58	Results
6	September 13	RAC Tourist Trophy	Goodwood Circuit	Stirling Moss Tony Brooks	David Brown Ltd.	Aston Martin DBR1/300	Results

Championship standings

Pos	Manufacturer	BUE	SEB	TGA	NÜR	LMS	TTR	Total
1 ^[4]	Ferrari^[4]	8	8	8	(6)	8		32 (38)
2 ^[4]	Porsche^[4]	4	4	6	(1)	4	(1)	18 (20)
3 ^[4]	Aston Martin^[4]				8	6	4	18
4 ^[4]	Lotus^[4]		3					3
5 ^[4]	O.S.C.A.^[4]			2				2

Note:

Championship points were awarded for the first six places in each race in the order of 8-6-4-3-2-1, excepting the RAC Tourist Trophy, for which points were awarded 4-3-2-1 for the first four positions.
Manufacturers were awarded points only for their highest finishing car with no points awarded for positions filled by additional cars.
Only the best four results from the six races could be retained by each manufacturer. Points earned but not retained are listed within brackets in the above table. Gross points earned are shown in the Total column within brackets.

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The cars

The following models contributed to the net championship point scores of their respective manufacturers.

References

^ http://www.cavallion.com/images/samples/174-BA%20Race.pdf^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "World Sports Car Championship". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
^ "1957 Maserati 450 S".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j 1974 FIA Yearbook, Grey Section, Previous FIA Championship Winners, page 122
^ Peter Higham, The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing, 1995, page 266

External links

[1] ttp://www.cavallion.com/images/samples/174-BA%20Race.pdf^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] "World Sports Car Championship". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-01-14.

[3] "1957 Maserati 450 S".

[FIA-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j 1974 FIA Yearbook, Grey Section, Previous FIA Championship Winners, page 122

[5] Peter Higham, The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing, 1995, page 266

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