Race · Round 4 of 8 · 7 July 1957

1957 French Grand Prix

Juan Manuel Fangio won for Maserati from pole at Rouen-les-Essarts. With this win, Juan Manuel Fangio set a new record of 23 championship Grand Prix wins.

Circuit: Rouen-les-EssartsRouen, France
Winner: Juan Manuel FangioMaserati
Pole: Juan Manuel Fangio
Fastest lap: Luigi Musso
Entries: 158 classified

This race includes a shared drive. Two drivers took turns in one car and both are classified in the same position, so a position below appears twice. That is correct, not a duplicated row.

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Juan Manuel Fangio	Maserati	250F	1	77	Finished	8
2	Luigi Musso	Ferrari	801	3	77	Finished	7	fastest lap
3	Peter Collins	Ferrari	801	5	77	Finished	4
4	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	801	7	76	Finished	3
5	Harry Schell	Maserati	250F	4	70	Finished	2
6	Jean Behra	Maserati	250F	2	70	Finished	0
7	Mike MacDowel shared	Cooper	T43	15	68	Finished	0
7	Sir Jack Brabham shared	Cooper	T43	13	4	Accident	0
DNF	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall	VW 5	10	30	Steering	0
DNF	Carlos Menditeguy	Maserati	250F	9	30	Engine	0
DNF	Roy Salvadori	Vanwall	VW 5	6	25	Engine	0
DNF	Herbert MacKay-Fraser	BRM	P25	12	24	Transmission	0
DNF	Maurice Trintignant	Ferrari	801	8	23	Electrical	0
DNF	Horace Gould	Maserati	250F	14	4	Halfshaft	0
DNF	Ron Flockhart	BRM	P25	11	2	Accident	0

F1DB layout rouen-2 · 6.542 km · 12 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap. Drivers who shared a car have a line each.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Juan Manuel Fangio	1	1	77
Luigi Musso	3	2	77
Peter Collins	5	3	77
Mike Hawthorn	7	4	76
Harry Schell	4	5	70
Jean Behra	2	6	70
Mike MacDowel shared	15	7	68
Sir Jack Brabham shared	13	7	4
Stuart Lewis-Evans	10	DNF	30
Carlos Menditeguy	9	DNF	30
Roy Salvadori	6	DNF	25
Herbert MacKay-Fraser	12	DNF	24
Maurice Trintignant	8	DNF	23
Horace Gould	14	DNF	4
Ron Flockhart	11	DNF	2

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Juan Manuel Fangio	Maserati	2	2:21.500	—	—
2	Jean Behra	Maserati	4	2:22.600	+1.100	+1.100
3	Luigi Musso	Ferrari	10	2:22.700	+1.200	+0.100
4	Harry Schell	Maserati	6	2:23.200	+1.700	+0.500
5	Peter Collins	Ferrari	12	2:23.300	+1.800	+0.100
6	Roy Salvadori	Vanwall	20	2:25.100	+3.600	+1.800
7	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	14	2:25.600	+4.100	+0.500
8	Maurice Trintignant	Ferrari	16	2:25.900	+4.400	+0.300
9	Carlos Menditeguy	Maserati	8	2:26.100	+4.600	+0.200
10	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall	18	2:27.600	+6.100	+1.500
11	Ron Flockhart	BRM	26	2:27.800	+6.300	+0.200
12	Herbert MacKay-Fraser	BRM	28	2:29.900	+8.400	+2.100
13	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	24	2:30.900	+9.400	+1.000
14	Horace Gould	Maserati	30	2:35.000	+13.500	+4.100
15	Mike MacDowel	Cooper	24	2:38.900	+17.400	+3.900

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Maserati 250F
Maserati 250 F, Bj. 1957 (1977-08-14) Südkehre · Spurzem - Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de

Where this comes from

Round: 4 of 1957
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 7 Jul 1957
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Maserati
Entrant: Maserati
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.