Lotus 18 Formula One Stirling Moss first victory F1 Grand Prix of Monaco 1960 2

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Lotus 18 Formula One Stirling Moss first victory F1 Grand Prix of Monaco 1960 2:
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A superb and rare photo of the magnificent Stirling Moss with after winningwith his Lotus - Coventry Climax 18 FormulaOne factory racing car (nr. 28), the Grand Prix of Monaco which was ridden on the famous streetcircuit of Monaco on the 29TH of May1960. Stirling Moss wonthe race!

Not only that, he would also score pole position duringpractice with a time of 1’36”3, which was a second quicker then Jack Brabhamwith his Cooper CIimax T53 who started the race in 2ND position.

Stirling Moss won the race with an average speed of 67.459,79 mph (108.566 km/h), before Bruce McLaren(Cooper Climax, 2ND) and Phil Hill (Ferrari, 3RD).

The Lotus 18 is a race car designed by Colin Chapman for use byLotus in Formula Junior, Formula Two, and Formula One. It was the firstmid-engined car built by Lotus, and a marked improvement over Chapman\'s earlyand only moderately successful front-engined formula cars, the Lotus 12 and Lotus16. It was introduced for the 1960 F1, F2 and FJ seasons. As a stop-gap beforethe introduction of the 18\'s successor models, the Lotus 20 and 21, some 18chassis were rebodied with 21 skins to create the interim Lotus 18/21 hybridderivative. The car was a classic Chapman design, being extremely light andsimple; the body was made up of lightweight panels bolted to heavily-triangulatedtube frame (almost spaceframe) chassis. Thus the car was rigid and strong. Itwas powered initially by a 2.5 litreCoventry Climax four cylinder engine, inherited from the 16, which produced 239hp (178 kW) from a weight of only 290 pd (132 kg),and had a wide torque range. Chapman, to capitalize on this, designed a light,sleek machine, only 28 inches(71cm) high (except for windscreen, and weighing just 980pd (440 kg).To help facilitate this, the driver was placed in a semi-reclining position,pioneered about a decade before by Gustav Baumm of NSU.

Chapman gave the 18 remarkably goodhandling with a unique suspension system which drastically reduced weighttransfer and body roll in cornering. Shortly, the Lotus 18 was proving to be fasterthan any car Grand Prix racing had ever seen, eclipsing even the legendary AutoUnions, and being widely copied (as well as built as a two-seat sports-racer,the 19 or Monte Carlo). The car took Lotus\' first F1 victory, albeit by privateerRob Walker, who leased the car from Chapman. Driven by Stirling Moss, the cartook a dominant win at the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix. It was an early taste ofthings to come. Moss also won the American Grand Prix at the end of the season,helping Lotus finish third in the constructors\' championship. Moss repeated hiswin in a legendary race at Monacothe following year, beating off the more powerful and faster \'sharknose\'Ferraris, and then won at the fearsome Nürburgring in changeable weather, whileInnes Ireland took a third win in the USAto help Lotus finish second in the constructors\' championship that year. Thecar was notable for giving Jim Clark his first Grand Prix start in 1960. The 2.5 liter was replaced by a 1.5 litreClimax with new Formula One engine rules in 1961, and a Formula Junior variantused a 998 cc Ford MAE. The Formula Junior version also used smaller gaugechassis tubing and also used Alfin drum brakes on all four corners, as it didnot have to cope with so much power. The 18 was replaced by the Lotus 21 inFormula One, and the Lotus 20 in Formula Juniorin 1961.

The magnificent StirlingMoss, who raced from 1948 to 1962, won 194 of the 497 races he entered,including 16 Formula One Grands Prix. He once told an interviewer that he hadparticipated in 525 races overall, as many as 62 in a single year, in 84 different cars. Like manydrivers of the era, he competed in several formulae – sometimes on the sameday. He was a true pioneer in the British Formula One racing scene and placedsecond in the Drivers\' Championship four times in a row from 1955 to 1958.Moss\'s first Formula One win was in 1955 at his home race, the British GrandPrix at Aintree, driving the superb Mercedes-Benz W196 Single Seater for aconvincing German 1-2-3-4 win, with Karl Kling and Piero Taruffi in theinternational driver line-up. It was the only race where he finished in frontof Juan Manuel Fangio, his teammate, friend, mentor and arch rival at Mercedes.One of his most famous drives was in the 1955 Mille Miglia, the Italian 1597 km open-road endurance race, which he won in therecord time of 10 hours and 8 minutes, finishing almost half an hour ahead ofteammate Fangio in second place. His navigator in the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR#722 (indicating the time of the start) was journalist Denis Jenkinson. Asnavigator, he supported Moss with notes about details of the long road trip,then an innovative technique.

This is a very nice and very rare photo that reflects a wonderful era ofLotus ‘ automotive history in a wonderful way.This is your rare chance to ownthis photo, therefore it is printedin a nice large format ofca. 8\" x 9” (ca. 20 x 22 cm). It makes it perfectly suitable for framing.

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