Pescara Circuit Layout & Records
Antree Street Circuit Details | |
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| Location: |  Pescara, Italy |
| Event: | Pescara Grand Prix |
| Used: | 1957 |
| Type: | Street Circuit |
| Lap Dist.: | 25.579 km |
Pescara Circuit Lap Record
| Lap Record: | 9:44.600 min |
| Date: | 18 Augustus 1957 |
| F1 Driver: | Stirling Moss |
| F1 Car: | Vanwall |
| Speed: | 157.517 km/h |
Pescara Street Circuit
Pescara F1 Circuit Layout
History
Pescara Circuit History
Pescara's fearsome road course achieved a footnote in history as the longest circuit to ever be used for a World Championship Grand Prix.
Winding its way through the Abruzzi mountains, the circuit incorporated a four-mile (!) straight next to the sea. It also featured level crossings, stray animals and crowds lining the circuit...
As well as the Grand Prix, it held a 12 hour sportscar race and was home to the Coppa Acerbo. Enzo Ferrari won the first race held at the circuit, in an Alfa Romeo.
Pescara became one of the first circuits to employ a chicane, when a 'bus stop' type affair was installed in 1934 to slow drivers before the pits.
The mad 15-mile blast through villages, along the sea-front and up and down mountain passes was given a world championship Grand Prix for the only time in 1957. Stirling Moss won for Vanwall.
By the early 1960s even the racing-mad Italians had concluded that the circuit was suicidal dangerous, and Pescara was quietly abandoned, with facilities little changed from when cars first lined up on the grid some 40 years before.
Podiums
F1 Podium Winners on Pescara Circuit
| Year | Race | Date | Top 3 Drivers | Teams | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1957 Pescara F1 GP | August 18 |  Stirling Moss Juan Manuel Fangio Harry Schell | Vanwall Maserati Maserati | 18 |
Driver Ranking
Driver Ranking Pescara Circuit
| Driver | GP | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Pod | Pole | FL | Avg Grid | Avg Pos | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stirling Moss | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 9 |
| 2 | Juan Manuel Fangio | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 6 |
| 3 | Harry Schell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 4 |
| 4 | Masten Gregory | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 4.0 | 3 |
| 5 | Stuart Lewis-Evans | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.0 | 5.0 | 2 |
| 6 | Bruce Halford | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.0 | 10.0 | 0 |
| 7 | Roy Salvadori | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.0 | 13.0 | 0 |
| 8 | Luigi Musso | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 8.0 | 0 |
| 9 | Luigi Piotti | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 16.0 | 0 |
| 10 |  Jo Bonnier | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 11.0 | 0 |
| 11 | Tony Brooks | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 14.0 | 0 |
| 12 | Giorgio Scarlatti | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.0 | 6.0 | 0 |
| 13 |  Paco Godia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.0 | 9.0 | 0 |
| 14 |  Jean Behra | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 12.0 | 0 |
| 15 |  Jack Brabham | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.0 | 7.0 | 0 |
| 16 | Horace Gould | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.0 | 15.0 | 0 |
Team Ranking
Team Ranking Pescara Circuit
| Team | GP | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Pod | Pole | FL | Avg Grid | Avg Pos | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vanwall | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5.3 | 6.7 | 11 |
| 2 | Maserati | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 13 |
| 3 | Cooper-Climax | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.5 | 10.0 | 0 |
| 4 | Ferrari | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 8.0 | 0 |
