Pescara Circuit Layout & Records

Antree Street Circuit Details
Location:Pescara F1 Circuit 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
Onboard Lap F1 Video

Lotus 33 driven by Jim Clark French GP, Clermont Ferrand, 27 June 1965 (2)

Pescara Street Circuit

Pescara F1 Circuit Layout

Pescara Circuit Layout & Records

 

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

YearRaceDateTop 3 DriversTeamsLaps
19571957 Pescara F1 GPAugust 18United Kingdom Stirling Moss
Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio
United States Harry Schell
United Kingdom Vanwall
Italy Maserati
Italy Maserati
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Driver Ranking

 

Driver Ranking Pescara Circuit

DriverGP  1st  2nd  3rd  Pod  Pole  FL  Avg GridAvg PosPoints
1United Kingdom Stirling Moss11001012.01.09
2Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio10101101.02.06
3United States Harry Schell10011005.03.04
4United States Masten Gregory10000007.04.03
5United Kingdom Stuart Lewis-Evans10000008.05.02
6Sweden Jo Bonnier10000009.011.00
7Italy Giorgio Scarlatti100000010.06.00
8United Kingdom Tony Brooks10000006.014.00
9Spain Paco Godia100000012.09.00
10France Jean Behra10000004.012.00
11Australia Jack Brabham100000016.07.00
12United Kingdom Horace Gould100000011.015.00
13United Kingdom Bruce Halford100000014.010.00
14United Kingdom Roy Salvadori100000015.013.00
15Italy Luigi Musso10000003.08.00
16Italy Luigi Piotti100000013.016.00

Team Ranking

 

Team Ranking Pescara Circuit

TeamGP  1st  2nd  3rd  Pod  Pole  FL  Avg GridAvg PosPoints
1United Kingdom Vanwall11001015.36.711
2Italy Maserati10112108.68.813
3Italy Ferrari10000003.08.00
4United Kingdom Cooper-Climax100000015.510.00

 

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