Stirling Moss and Mike Hawthorn

I took this rather fuzzy photograph with a Kodak Brownie 127 camera in the paddock during practice for the British Grand Prix at Aintree in July 1957.

It's Stirling Moss who was part of the Vanwall team, and Mike Hawthorn who drove a Ferrari 801 for the Scuderia Ferrari team. Stirling Moss qualified his Vanwall in pole position on the grid with team mate Tony Brooks also on the front row, the two Vanwalls sandwiching Jean Behra's Maserati 250F. Mike Hawthorn was on the second row in fifth place with the Ferrari 801, which was the final evolution of the D50 cars that Ferrari had inherited from Lancia towards the end of the 1955 season. Eventual World Drivers' Championship winner (for the fourth consecutive season) Juan Fangio was next to Mike Hawthorn in fourth position. Stirling Moss led the 90 lap race in the early stages, pulling away from Jean Behra for about 20 laps, but his car then developed a misfire and after two quick pit stops to try to rectify the problem Tony Brooks, having a painful drive following an accident at Le Mans, was flagged into the pits for Stirling Moss to take over his car, then in fifth place, but dropping to ninth after the change-over. Stirling Moss began to catch the cars in front of him, getting up to fourth place behind Jean Behra, Mike Hawthorn and Stewart Lewis-Evans in the third Vanwall by lap 69 when everything suddenly changed. Coming down the Railway Straight towards the Melling Crossing the clutch in Jean Behra's Maserati exploded leaving him to roll round to the pits to retire. As Mike Hawthorn came to pass the stricken Maserati one of his tyres punctured on the debris left by the broken clutch and he had to slow down to stop at the pits for a wheel change. Stuart Lewis-Evans quickly caught and passed the Ferrari, but almost immediately was passed by Stirling Moss to take the lead in the race. So at the end of the lap which he had started in fourth place with a hope of maybe catching the leader by the end of the race Stirling Moss crossed the line in the lead, which he held to the end of the race. Luigi Musso in a Ferrari 801 was second and Mike Hawthorn finished in third place - all the other finishers had been lapped by those three cars.