Editing Mike Hawthorn (section)

===1956–1957===
[[File:Hawthorn and Collins Ferraris Nurburgring 1957.jpg|thumb|right|Hawthorn leads Peter Collins in their Ferrari 801 cars, during the [[1957 German Grand Prix]]]]
Another change of team for 1956 – this time to [[British Racing Motors|BRM]] - was a failure, and Hawthorn's only podium came in [[1956 Argentine Grand Prix|Argentina]] where the non-appearance of his BRM allowed him to guest drive a [[Maserati 250F]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr049.html|title=Argentine GP, 1956 Race Report - GP Encyclopedia - F1 History on Grandprix.com|publisher=Grandprix.com|access-date=26 January 2016}}</ref> However, when it appeared, usually only in British races, the new 2.5 BRM was very fast while it lasted, and Hawthorn held off Fangio, leading the first 25 laps at Silverstone in the British GP. He retired the car before half distance owing to deteriorating handling and brakes. Deeply unhappy with the BRM team's management and car preparation, Hawthorn walked out of the team at this point. Hawthorn had left Ferrari because driving for the British Jaguar sports car team was his first priority. He was favoured to win at Le Mans again, but lost ten laps in the pits early in the race, and while the D type repeatedly set fastest laps, the fuel consumption rules meant he could only finish sixth.

Racing the D type in Italy, Hawthorn crashed and suffered very serious burns, his second bad accident of the year, leaving him disillusioned with racing. However, he believed a return to Ferrari could give him the championship in the superior [[Lancia D50|Lancia Ferrari D50]]. He had put the original [[Vittorio Jano|Jano]] version of the car on the front row at its debut in the final F1 race of 1955 at [[Oulton Park]]. However, Ferrari's modified version of the design for 1957 was slower than Fangio and Collins's all-conquering 1956 Lancia Ferrari. The 1957 version, with the polar centred pannier tanks removed, still handled well, but was not the masterpiece Jano designed; it lacked straight line speed and was not competitive by mid 1957, clearly inferior to the new Vanwalls.

Hawthorn rejoined the [[Ferrari]] factory team in 1957, and soon became friends with [[Peter Collins (racing driver)|Peter Collins]], a fellow Englishman and Ferrari team driver. During the 1957 and 1958 racing seasons, the two Englishmen became engaged in a fierce rivalry with [[Luigi Musso]], another Ferrari driver, for prize money.<ref name="grandprix.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr070.html|title=French GP, 1958 Race Report - GP Encyclopedia - F1 History on Grandprix.com|publisher=Grandprix.com|access-date=26 January 2016}}</ref>

[[File:Mike Hawthorn 1958 Argentine GP.jpg|thumb|left|Hawthorn driving his [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] to third in the [[1958 Argentine Grand Prix|Gran Premio de la Republica Argentina]]]]