1958 Portuguese Grand Prix: F1 Race, Qualifying & Winners

Stirling Moss won the 1958 Portuguese Grand Prix, then helped ensure his championship rival kept the points he had earned. After mastering the streets of Boavista, Moss supported Mike Hawthorn‘s successful defence against disqualification, leaving the Ferrari driver second ahead of Stuart Lewis-Evans.

Result	Driver / Time	Team
Pole position	Stirling Moss	Vanwall
Pole time	2:34.210
Fastest lap	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari
Fastest-lap time	2:32.270 on lap 36
First	Stirling Moss	Vanwall
Second	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari
Third	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall

Weekend Schedule

Date	Session	Local Time
22 August 1958	Friday timed practice	Start time unconfirmed
23 August 1958	Saturday final qualifying	Start time unconfirmed
24 August 1958	Race	Start time unconfirmed

All times are local. The race time is the scheduled start; weather delays and interruptions are described below.

Championship background

Mike Hawthorn arrived at round 9 leading the 1958 F1 World Championship on 30 points, with Stirling Moss on 24.

Race entries

Portugal joined the World Championship at Porto’s fast street circuit. Ferrari continued with Hawthorn and von Trips after Collins’s death, while the other leading teams brought their regular cars. Cliff Allison and Maria Teresa de Filippis both needed replacement machinery after accidents during practice.

Friday timed practice

The unfamiliar combination of cobbles, tram rails and fast streets demanded careful exploration. Allison crashed his Lotus beyond repair, and de Filippis damaged her Maserati against a lamp standard; both escaped injury. As the leaders learnt the circuit, the benchmark passed between Ferrari, BRM and Vanwall before Moss ended the session fastest. Trintignant also impressed with smooth, precise laps in the smaller Cooper.

Saturday final qualifying

Allison transferred to a Centro Sud Maserati and de Filippis borrowed Gerini’s car. Hawthorn improved substantially, but Moss eventually beat him by just five-hundredths with 2:34.21. Lewis-Evans joined them on the front row after a late run, with Behra close behind. The session demonstrated how little separated the leading drivers despite the circuit’s unusual demands.

Qualifying Classification

The best lap across Friday and Saturday set the grid, with electrical timing to hundredths of a second. Replacement cars and Allison’s change of constructor are retained in the entries and classifications.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Best Time
1	2	Stirling Moss	Vanwall	2:34.210
2	24	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	2:34.2
3	6	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall	2:34.6
4	8	Jean Behra	BRM	2:34.9
5	4	Tony Brooks	Vanwall	2:35.9
6	22	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	2:37.0
7	10	Harry Schell	BRM	2:37.0
8	14	Jack Brabham	Cooper	2:37.4
9	12	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper	2:37.9
10	28	Carroll Shelby	Maserati	2:40.4
11	16	Roy Salvadori	Cooper	2:43.0
12	20	Graham Hill	Lotus	2:46.2
13	18	Cliff Allison	Maserati	2:46.2
14	32	Jo Bonnier	Maserati	2:46.6
15	30	Maria Teresa de Filippis	Maserati	3:01.9

What happened in the 1958 Portuguese Grand Prix?

Rain left the roads damp at the start, and Hawthorn briefly led before Moss took control as the surface dried. The Vanwall pulled away, while Hawthorn’s brake difficulties complicated his effort to hold second. Lewis-Evans and Behra remained in contention behind him.

Hawthorn later spun and restarted using the slope beside the circuit. His movement against the normal direction of travel prompted a disqualification, but Moss explained that the restart had taken place off the racing surface. The decision was reversed, restoring Hawthorn’s second place and fastest-lap point.

Moss’s victory stood, with Hawthorn second, Lewis-Evans third, Behra fourth and von Trips fifth. The sporting intervention preserved seven points that would prove decisive in the championship, while Moss left Portugal having demonstrated both his pace and his willingness to defend a rival’s fair result.

After the race, Mike Hawthorn headed the drivers’ standings with 36 points, followed by Stirling Moss on 32.

1958 Portuguese Grand Prix race results

The 1958 Portuguese Grand Prix was held on 24 August 1958.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time / Retired	Pts.
1	2	Stirling Moss	Vanwall	50	2:11:27.80	8
2	24	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	50	+ 5:12.75	7
3	6	Stuart Lewis-Evans	Vanwall	49	+ 1 lap	4
4	8	Jean Behra	BRM	49	+ 1 lap	3
5	22	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	49	+ 1 lap	2
6	10	Harry Schell	BRM	49	+ 1 lap	0
7	14	Jack Brabham	Cooper	48	+ 2 laps	0
8	12	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper	48	+ 2 laps	0
9	16	Roy Salvadori	Cooper	46	+ 4 laps	0
Ret	28	Carroll Shelby	Maserati	47	Brakes	0
Ret	4	Tony Brooks	Vanwall	37	Spun off	0
Ret	20	Graham Hill	Lotus	25	Spun off	0
Ret	18	Cliff Allison	Maserati	15	Engine	0
Ret	32	Jo Bonnier	Maserati	9	Physical	0
Ret	30	Maria Teresa de Filippis	Maserati	6	Engine	0
DNA	26	Phil Hill	Ferrari			0
DNA	34	Casimiro de Oliveira	Maserati			0

Includes 1 point for fastest lap

1958 Portuguese Grand Prix Fastest Laps

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Lap	Time
1	22	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	36	2:32.270

Only drivers with a recorded lap time appear. One championship point was awarded for fastest lap, divided equally when shared.

1958 Post-Race F1 Championship Standings

Championship standings after the 1958 Portuguese Grand Prix.

1958 Post-Race F1 Drivers' Championship Standings

POS	Driver	Nationality	Car	PTS
1	Mike Hawthorn	British	Ferrari	36
2	Stirling Moss	British	Cooper / Vanwall	32
3	Tony Brooks	British	Vanwall	16
4	Peter Collins	British	Ferrari	14
5	Roy Salvadori	British	Cooper	13
6	Maurice Trintignant	French	Cooper / Maserati / BRM	12
7	Luigi Musso	Italian	Ferrari	12
8	Harry Schell	American	Maserati / BRM	12
9	Stuart Lewis-Evans	British	Vanwall	11
10	Wolfgang von Trips	German	Ferrari	9
11	Jean Behra	French	Maserati / BRM	9
12	Jimmy Bryan	American	Epperly	8
13	Juan Manuel Fangio	Argentine	Maserati	7
14	George Amick	American	Epperly	6
15	Johnny Boyd	American	Kurtis Kraft	4
16	Tony Bettenhausen	American	Epperly	4
17	Jack Brabham	Australian	Cooper	3
18	Cliff Allison	British	Team Lotus / Maserati	3
19	Jim Rathmann	American	Epperly	2
—	Bruce McLaren	New Zealander	Cooper	0
—	Jimmy Reece	American	Watson	0
—	Olivier Gendebien	Belgian	Ferrari	0
—	Edgar Barth	German	Porsche	0
—	Phil Hill	American	Maserati / Ferrari	0
—	Ian Burgess	British	Cooper	0
—	Carlos Menditeguy	Argentine	Maserati	0
—	Don Freeland	American	Phillips	0
—	Jo Bonnier	Swedish	Maserati	0
—	Paco Godia	Spanish	Maserati	0
—	Jud Larson	American	Watson	0
—	Tony Marsh	British	Cooper	0
—	Carroll Shelby	American	Maserati	0
—	Gerino Gerini	Italian	Maserati	0
—	Horace Gould	British	Maserati	0
—	Eddie Johnson	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Maria de Filippis	Italian	Maserati	0
—	Troy Ruttman	American	Maserati	0
—	Bill Cheesbourg	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Ivor Bueb	British	Connaught / Team Lotus	0
—	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Dutch	Porsche	0
—	Al Keller	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Johnnie Parsons	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Johnnie Tolan	American	Kuzma	0
—	Graham Hill	British	Team Lotus	0
—	Giorgio Scarlatti	Italian	Maserati	0
—	Wolfgang Seidel	German	Maserati / Cooper	0
—	Bob Christie	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Dempsey Wilson	American	Kuzma	0
—	Masten Gregory	American	Maserati	0
—	Anthony Foyt	American	Kuzma	0
—	Christian Goethals	Belgian	Cooper	0
—	Mike Magill	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Paul Russo	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Alan Stacey	British	Team Lotus	0
—	Shorty Templeman	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Rodger Ward	American	Lesovsky	0
—	Jack Fairman	British	Connaught	0
—	Hans Herrmann	German	Maserati	0
—	Billy Garrett	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Eddie Sachs	American	Kuzma	0
—	Dick Gibson	British	Cooper	0
—	Johnny Thomson	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Brian Naylor	British	Cooper	0
—	Chuck Weyant	American	Dunn	0
—	Jack Turner	American	Lesovsky	0
—	Bob Veith	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Dick Rathmann	American	Watson	0
—	Ed Elisian	American	Watson	0
—	Pat O'Connor	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Paul Goldsmith	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Jerry Unser	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Len Sutton	American	Kurtis Kraft	0
—	Art Bisch	American	Kuzma	0

1958 Post-Race F1 Constructors' Championship Standings

POS	Car	PTS
1	Vanwall	41
2	Ferrari	40
3	Cooper	29
4	BRM	15
5	Maserati	6
6	Team Lotus	3
—	Porsche	0
—	Connaught	0

Drivers counted their best 6 results. The first five places earned 8–6–4–3–2 points, with one further point for fastest lap, shared equally when necessary. Shared drives earned no championship points. Constructors also retained their best 6 results, scoring through only their highest-placed eligible car, without fastest-lap points. Indianapolis counted for drivers only.

1958 Formula 1 Race Calendar

Round	Grand Prix	Circuit	Date
1	1958 Argentine Grand Prix	Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Buenos Aires	19 January
2	1958 Monaco Grand Prix	Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo	18 May
3	1958 Dutch Grand Prix	Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort	26 May
4	1958 Indianapolis 500	Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, Indiana	30 May
5	1958 Belgian Grand Prix	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot	15 June
6	1958 French Grand Prix	Reims-Gueux, Reims	6 July
7	1958 British Grand Prix	Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone	19 July
8	1958 German Grand Prix	Nürburgring, Nürburg	3 August
9	1958 Portuguese Grand Prix	Circuito da Boavista, Porto	24 August
10	1958 Italian Grand Prix	Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza	7 September
11	1958 Moroccan Grand Prix	Ain-Diab Circuit, Casablanca	19 October