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XLVIe Grand Prix de l'A.C.F.

03 Jul 1960Reims415.100 km (8302 m x 50 Laps)

 Pole Position: Jack Brabham, Cooper T53-Climax, 2:16.8 (218.5 km/h) Fastest Lap: Jack Brabham, Cooper T53-Climax, 2:17.5 (217.4 km/h lap 25) Race Results: Pos Car# Driver Car Time Speed 1 16 Jack Brabham Cooper T53-Climax 1:57:24.9 212.1 km/h 2 44 Olivier Gendebien Cooper T51-Climax 1:58:13.2 210.7 km/h 3 18 Bruce McLaren Cooper T53-Climax 1:58:16.8 210.6 km/h 4 46 Henry Taylor Cooper T51-Climax -1 Lap 5 24 Jim Clark Lotus 18-Climax -1 Lap 6 22 Ron Flockhart Lotus 18-Climax -1 Lap 7 20 Innes Ireland Lotus 18-Climax -7 Laps 8 48 Bruce Halford Cooper T51-Climax 40 Engine 9 40 Masten Gregory Cooper T51-Maserati -13 Laps 10 42 Ian Burgess Cooper T51-Maserati -14 Laps 11 4 Wolfgang von Trips Ferrari 256 30 Transmission 12 2 Phil Hill Ferrari 256 29 Transmission Did Not Finish: 8 Jo Bonnier BRM P48 22 Engine 36 Lucien Bianchi Cooper T45-Climax 18 Transmission 10 Dan Gurney BRM P48 17 Engine 30 Gino Munaron Cooper T51-Castellotti 16 Transmission 6 Willy Mairesse Ferrari 256 14 Transmission 14 Tony Brooks Vanwall VW11 7 Vibrations 12 Graham Hill BRM P48 0 Stalled on grid/Collision with Trintignant 38 Maurice Trintignant Cooper T51-Maserati 0 Collision with Hill Did Not Start: 28 Richie Ginther Scarab Engine 34 David Piper Lotus 16-Climax Engine 26 Chuck Daigh Scarab Engine Did Not Appear: 32 Giorgio Scarlatti Cooper T51-Castellotti Lap Leaders: Car# Driver Car Laps Total 16 Jack Brabham Cooper T53-Climax 1-3 42 2 Phil Hill Ferrari 256 4 8 16 Jack Brabham Cooper T53-Climax 5 2 Phil Hill Ferrari 256 6 16 Jack Brabham Cooper T53-Climax 7 2 Phil Hill Ferrari 256 8 16 Jack Brabham Cooper T53-Climax 9-10 2 Phil Hill Ferrari 256 11 16 Jack Brabham Cooper T53-Climax 12 2 Phil Hill Ferrari 256 13 16 Jack Brabham Cooper T53-Climax 14 2 Phil Hill Ferrari 256 15-17 16 Jack Brabham Cooper T53-Climax 18-50 Fastest Laps: Pos Car# Driver Car Time Speed Lap 1 16 Jack Brabham Cooper T53-Climax 2:17.5 217.4 25 2 2 Phil Hill Ferrari 256 2:17.8 216.9 23 3 4 Wolfgang von Trips Ferrari 256 2:18.1 216.4 17 4 20 Innes Ireland Lotus 18-Climax 2:19.1 214.9 22 5 18 Bruce McLaren Cooper T53-Climax 2:19.8 213.8 4 6 44 Olivier Gendebien Cooper T51-Climax 2:20.0 213.5 17 7 46 Henry Taylor Cooper T51-Climax 2:20.1 213.3 10 8 8 Jo Bonnier BRM P48 2:20.3 213.0 2 9 22 Ron Flockhart Lotus 18-Climax 2:21.7 210.9 46 10 24 Jim Clark Lotus 18-Climax 2:21.9 210.6 46 11 10 Dan Gurney BRM P48 2:22.3 210.0 13 12 6 Willy Mairesse Ferrari 256 2:22.4 209.9 3 13 14 Tony Brooks Vanwall VW11 2:22.5 209.7 2 14 40 Masten Gregory Cooper T51-Maserati 2:24.0 207.6 14 15 48 Bruce Halford Cooper T51-Climax 2:25.4 205.6 22 16 36 Lucien Bianchi Cooper T45-Climax 2:25.5 205.4 17 17 30 Gino Munaron Cooper T51-Castellotti 2:31.9 196.8 8 18 42 Ian Burgess Cooper T51-Maserati 2:32.1 196.5 7 Qualifying Times: Pos Car# Driver Car Time Speed Entrant 1 16 Jack Brabham Cooper T53-Climax 2:16.8 218.5 Cooper Car Co 2 2 Phil Hill Ferrari 256 2:18.2 216.3 Scuderia Ferrari 3 12 Graham Hill BRM P48 2:18.4 215.9 Owen Racing Organisation 4 20 Innes Ireland Lotus 18-Climax 2:18.5 215.8 Team Lotus 5 6 Willy Mairesse Ferrari 256 2:19.3 214.6 Scuderia Ferrari 6 4 Wolfgang von Trips Ferrari 256 2:19.4 214.4 Scuderia Ferrari 7 10 Dan Gurney BRM P48 2:19.4 214.4 Owen Racing Organisation 8 22 Ron Flockhart Lotus 18-Climax 2:19.5 214.2 Team Lotus 9 18 Bruce McLaren Cooper T53-Climax 2:19.6 214.1 Cooper Car Co 10 8 Jo Bonnier BRM P48 2:19.8 213.8 Owen Racing Organisation 11 44 Olivier Gendebien Cooper T51-Climax 2:20.0 213.5 Yeoman Credit Racing Team 12 24 Jim Clark Lotus 18-Climax 2:20.3 213.0 Team Lotus 13 46 Henry Taylor Cooper T51-Climax 2:22.8 209.3 Yeoman Credit Racing Team 14 14 Tony Brooks Vanwall VW11 2:23.3 208.6 Vandervell Products Ltd 15 36 Lucien Bianchi Cooper T45-Climax 2:23.6 208.1 Fred Tuck Cars 16 48 Bruce Halford Cooper T51-Climax 2:23.6 208.1 Yeoman Credit Racing Team 17 40 Masten Gregory Cooper T51-Maserati 2:24.3 207.1 Scuderia Centro Sud 18 38 Maurice Trintignant Cooper T51-Maserati 2:24.7 206.5 Scuderia Centro Sud 19 30 Gino Munaron Cooper T51-Castellotti 2:31.3 197.5 Scuderia Eugenio Castellotti 20 28 Richie Ginther Scarab 2:31.4 197.4 Reventlow Automobiles Inc 21 34 David Piper Lotus 16-Climax 2:32.0 196.6 Robert Bodle Ltd 22 42 Ian Burgess Cooper T51-Maserati 2:36.7 190.7 Scuderia Centro Sud 23 26 Chuck Daigh Scarab 2:46.1 179.9 Reventlow Automobiles Inc Not Present: 32 Giorgio Scarlatti Cooper T51-Castellotti - - Scuderia Eugenio Castellotti
Starting Grid: 12 Graham Hill 2 Phil Hill 16 Jack Brabham BRM P48 Ferrari 256 Cooper T53-Climax 2:18.4 2:18.2 2:16.8 6 Willy Mairesse 20 Innes Ireland Ferrari 256 Lotus 18-Climax 2:19.3 2:18.5 22 Ron Flockhart 10 Dan Gurney 4 Wolfgang von Trips Lotus 18-Climax BRM P48 Ferrari 256 2:19.5 2:19.4 2:19.4 8 Jo Bonnier 18 Bruce McLaren BRM P48 Cooper T53-Climax 2:19.8 2:19.6 46 Henry Taylor 24 Jim Clark 44 Olivier Gendebien Cooper T51-Climax Lotus 18-Climax Cooper T51-Climax 2:22.8 2:20.3 2:20.0 36 Lucien Bianchi 14 Tony Brooks Cooper T45-Climax Vanwall VW11 2:23.6 2:23.3 38 Maurice Trintignant 40 Masten Gregory 48 Bruce Halford Cooper T51-Maserati Cooper T51-Maserati Cooper T51-Climax 2:24.7 2:24.3 2:23.6 42 Ian Burgess 30 Gino Munaron Cooper T51-Maserati Cooper T51-Castellotti 2:36.7 2:31.3
Notes: 1) Weather: Overcast, Dry.
Race Review:

Three weeks after the disastrous Belgian GP the World Championship contenders gathered at Reims. Stirling Moss was out of action. Tony Brooks had switched from the BRP Cooper team to try the new Vanwall VW11, while Team Lotus had hired Ron Flockhart to replace Alan Stacey. BRP had two new drivers in Henry Taylor and Bruce Halford. In practice both Scarabs blew their engines so neither Lance Reventlow nor Chuck Daigh was able to race.

Jack Brabham was on pole position by 1.4secs with Phil Hill's Ferrari and Graham Hill's BRM sharing the front row. Behind them were Innes Ireland's factory Lotus 18 and the Ferrari of Willy Mairesse.

At the start Graham Hill was caught unprepared and as he tried to get the BRM off the line he was hit from behind by the Scuderia Centro Sud Cooper of Maurice Trintignant. There was also a collision between Brooks and Lucien Bianchi's outdated Cooper.

The battle for the lead involved Brabham and P. Hill and the pair switched places lap after lap until Hill began to fade with transmission trouble. A similar problem took out third-placed Ferrari driver Wolfgang von Trips and so Brabham was left out in front all by himself. Mairesse too retired with a similar problem and Ireland had to stop with a broken front suspension. Also retiring were the two surviving BRMs of Dan Gurney and Jo Bonnier disappeared with engine trouble.

This left Gendebien in the BRP Cooper to take second with Bruce McLaren third in the second factory Cooper and with Taylor finishing fourth in his BRP Cooper the company could boast 1-2-3-4 finish. The Lotuses of Jim Clark and Flockhart finished fifth and sixth.