1958 24 Hours of Le Mans
Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Score
1 S750 42 Automobili OSCA Alejandro de Tomaso Colin Davis O.S.C.A . 750S 1.270
2 S750 44 Automobiles Deutsch et Bonnet Gérard Laureau Louis Cornet D.B . HBR-4 Spyder 1.265
3 S750 46 Automobiles Deutsch et Bonnet Paul Armagnac Jean-Claude Vidilles D.B . HBR-4 Spyder 1.225
4 S750 41 Automobili Osca Jean Laroche Rémy Radix O.S.C.A . 750S 1.216
5 S1.5 31 Porsche KG Edgar Barth Paul Frère Porsche 718 RSK 1.191
6 S1.5 32 Baron de Beaufort Carel Godin de Beaufort Herbert Linge Porsche 550 A 1.183
7 S2.0 29 Porsche KG Jean Behra Hans Herrmann Porsche 718 RSK 1.181
8 S3.0 14 Scuderia Ferrari Olivier Gendebien Phil Hill Ferrari 250 TR/58 1.135
9 S750 51 Equipe Monopole Courses Jacques Poch Guy Dunaud-Saultier Monopole X86 1.103
10 S3.0 5 A.G. Whitehead ( private entrant ) Peter Whitehead Graham Whitehead Aston Martin DB3S 1.089
Index of Performance
The 1958 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 26th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 21 and 22 June 1958, on the Circuit de la Sarthe. It was also the fifth round of the 1958 World Sports Car Championship, which was running to new regulations introduced at the beginning of the season. Some 150,000 spectators had gathered for Europe's classic sports car race, around the 8.38-mile course. The prospect of an exciting duel between Ferrari, Jaguar, Aston Martin and giantkiller Porsche was enough to draw large crowds to the 24 Hours race. The race was dominated by fifteen hours of rain, three of which were torrential, marking a bad summer solstice. There were thirteen accidents, one killing gentleman-driver Jean-Marie Brussin. It marked the first ever overall win for an American and a Belgian driver and was the third win for the Scuderia Ferrari. The works Testarossas took over the lead in the third hour when, this year, it was the British challenge that ran out of steam. After their 1957 rout, the Italians took their revenge as Osca also won the Index of Performance.