BRUSSELS GRAND PRIX

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29178, 12 April 1960, Page 15

BRUSSELS GRAND PRIX

Brabham Beats Moss

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) BRUSSELS, April 10. Jack Brabham, Australia’s world champion, today drove a works Cooper to victory in the Brussels Grand Prix. The race counts towards the 1960 manufacturers’ championship for Formula II cars (Ij litres) but not for the 1960 drivers’ world championship. Britain’s Stirling Moss was second in a German Porsche, and Maurice Trintignant, of France, third in a Cooper. The event was run in two sections, each of 35 laps, totalling 98.9 miles. Eighteen drivers from eight countries competed and their points in each heat were added together to decide final placings. Brabham won the second heat after finishing second to Moss in the first. With only two laps to go in the second section Moss had pulled up to the point where only lOsec divided him from Brabham. He had beaten Brabham by 50.9 sec in the first heat, and that Would have given hin) the advantage if they finished with the same number of points—the deciding factor—in the final standings. But Moss skidded twice in the second last lap. He lost several seconds and Trintignant passed him. Brabham averaged 71.24 miles an hour to win the second heat in Ihr 23min 21.9 sec. In much better conditions. Moss led almost from start to finish to win the first heat in Ihr 13min 25.65ec, at an average speed of 80.88 miles an hour. Trintignant was third In the first heat. Bruce McLaren, of New Zealand, did not compete in the race.