The man who had vowed to one day beat Ferrari

Vanwall won the inaugural Formula 1 World Constructors'Championship in 1958, and so achieved the ambition of its founder Tony Vanderwell, who had vowed to one day beat Ferrari.
Vanderwell had originally been part of the BRM trust, but left in frustration of that team in its early days. Instead, he persuaded Enzo Ferrari to sell him a series of Formula 1 cars that were then modified and races as Thinwall Specials.
The natural progression from this was a fully Vanderwell car. This first appeared in 1955. In place of the Ferrari engine was a four-cylinder Norton. Frank Costin designed the body with sleek and aerodynamically efficient lines, very distinctive on this high car, with flush intakes and four protruberances to disturb the airflow. Colin Chapman had designed an chassis frame and de Dion rear end, while retaining the coil spring and wishbone front suspension.
The result of all this development was that the Vanwall was the fastest car of 1957, and Tony Brooks and Stirling Moss shared the winning car in an historic first-ever victory in the British Grand Prix of that year. Later in the season won Stirling Moss the two championship races run in Italy at Pescara and Monza.
Brooks and Moss won six Grands Prix for the team in 1958. Tony Brooks won Belgian, German and Italian Grand Prix, Stirling Moss the Dutch, Portuguese and Moroccan Grand Prix and Vanwall took the Constructors'championship title. But in the final race of the season, at Morocco, third team driver Stuart Lewis-Evans crashed and received fatal burns.
Vanderwell, in failing health anyway, was devastated by the loss of his driver and he announced his retirement from the sport.

Drivers
1954 Peter Collins
1955 Harry Schell, Ken Wharton, Mike Hawthorn
1956 Harry Schell, Jose Froilan Gonzalez, Maurice Trintignant, Mike Hawthorn, Piero Taruffi, Colin Chapman
1957 Roy Salvadori, Stirling Moss, Stuart Lewis-Evans, Tony Brooks
1958 Stirling Moss, Stuart Lewis-Evans, Tony Brooks
1959 Tony Brooks
1960 Tony Brooks