1958 Monaco Grand Prix

Artist: Charles Avalon

Racing the Red: the 100-lap Monaco Grand Prix was won, to the delight of the Monegasque crowd, by popular French pilote Maurice Trintignant in a Cooper-Climax, flagged home ahead of the Ferraris of Luigi Musso and Peter Collins in second and third place respectively. A parade of drivers of race-winning calibre, including Olivier Gendebien, Alfonso ‘Fon’ de Portago, Graf Wolfgang von Trips, in company with Trintignant, Musso and Collins, were signed to Enzo Ferrari. Nothing brings in the big captive crowds to the Principality so consistently as the annual grand epreuve, held on the streets of Monaco since 1929.