F1 Retrospective: 1957 Season Summary
The Maserati 250F.
1957 Championship
J.M. Fangio-ARG 46, S. Moss-GBR 25, L. Musso-ITA 16.
Fangio earns his fifth and fourth consecutive drivers’ championship.
Putative Constructors’ Championship
Officine Alfieri Maserati 65, Scuderia Ferrari 48, Vanderwell Products Limited 37. Maserati finally breaks through behind Fangio and claims its maiden constructors’ championship.
The Britons rise to the fore in Formula 1 as island drivers make their mark piloting Italian entries and Vanwall under Stirling Moss snares its maiden Grand Prix victory.
Fangio stands atop the tables with his twenty-eighth career P1 grid position and twenty-fourth career Grand Prix victory.
