Editing Mike Hawthorn (section)

===1958 World Champion===
Hawthorn won the {{F1|1958}} Formula One Championship despite achieving only one win, against four by Moss. Hawthorn won the [[1958 French Grand Prix]] at [[Reims]], in which Musso was fatally injured while in second place. Leading easily in the [[1958 Monaco Grand Prix]] at half distance, his [[Ferrari 246|246]] engine blew,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr066.html|title=Monaco GP, 1958 Race Report – GP Encyclopedia – F1 History on Grandprix.com|publisher=Grandprix.com|access-date=26 January 2016}}</ref> while at [[1958 Italian Grand Prix|Monza]] he was a minute ahead of [[Tony Brooks (racing driver)|Tony Brooks]] when his clutch forced him to slow to second place.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr074.html|title=Italian GP, 1958 Race Report – GP Encyclopedia – F1 History on Grandprix.com|publisher=Grandprix.com|access-date=26 January 2016}}</ref> Hawthorn benefited greatly from the gentlemanliness of Moss, as demonstrated at the [[1958 Portuguese Grand Prix]] at [[Circuito da Boavista|Porto]]. Hawthorn was disqualified for bump starting his stalled car downhill in the opposite direction, on the way to a second-place finish. Moss interceded on Hawthorn's behalf and the decision was ultimately reversed.<ref name="ReferenceC">{{cite web|url=http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr073.html|title=Portuguese GP, 1958 Race Report – GP Encyclopedia – F1 History on Grandprix.com|publisher=Grandprix.com|access-date=26 January 2016}}</ref> After a pit stop midway through that race, Hawthorn accelerated back through the field to gain an extra point for fastest lap. Moss had failed to respond, possibly doubting Hawthorn could lap so fast with damaged drum brakes.<ref name="ReferenceC"/> This extra world championship point plus the second place points contributed to Hawthorn winning the championship with a season total just one more than that of Moss. In the final race, the [[1958 Moroccan Grand Prix]], Hawthorn drove a conservative tactical race aiming to stay ahead of Moss's Vanwall teammates. Brooks's car broke while narrowly leading Hawthorn, and [[Stuart Lewis-Evans]] in the third Vanwall crashed after a desperate attempt to move through the field and challenge Hawthorn running third; Evans later died of burns. In the last laps, second-placed [[Phil Hill]] slowed and waved Hawthorn through to gain enough points to take the Championship; the first ever to be won by an English driver.<ref name=Skilleter>Bailey Skilleter, "Mike Hawthorn: Golden Boy" (PJ Publishing Ltd., {{ISBN|978-1-908658-06-7}}, 2015)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr075.html|title=Morocco GP, 1958 Race Report – GP Encyclopedia – F1 History on Grandprix.com|publisher=Grandprix.com|access-date=26 January 2016}}</ref> Hawthorn's total of just one win in his title winning season means that Hawthorn currently jointly holds the Formula One record for the fewest number of Grand Prix wins by an eventual drivers' champion during a title winning season along with [[Keke Rosberg]] (who also scored one win in his subsequent [[1982 Formula One World Championship|1982]] title winning season) <ref>{{cite web |title=Stats F1- World Championship Titles-Wins |url=https://www.statsf1.com/en/statistiques/pilote/champion/victoire.aspx |website=www.statsf1.com |publisher=Stats F1 |access-date=29 August 2022}}</ref>

After winning the title, Hawthorn immediately announced his retirement from Formula One. He began a series of books for children featuring not only the wholly fictional Carlotti but also himself and other drivers of the day ('Stirling nipped past me at the hairpin', and so on). The first, published in 1958, was ''Carlotti Joins the Team'', and a second was published in 1959 called ''Carlotti Takes the Wheel''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.classicmotoringbooks.co.uk/product/carlotti-takes-the-wheel/ |title=Carlotti Takes The Wheel |access-date=17 September 2021}}</ref> Due to his death, the series did not continue.

Hawthorn was noted for wearing a [[bow tie]] when racing;<ref>{{cite book |last=Daley |first=Robert |title=The Cruel Sport: Grand Prix Racing 1959–1967 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5GU8eo601hsC|year=2005|publisher=MotorBooks International |location=St. Paul, MN USA |isbn=978-0-76032-100-3 |page=xv |quote=The world champion that year was the Ferrari driver Mike Hawthorn, a tall, blond young man who always wore a bow tie when racing. Always. He considered this important. It was his style. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318105938/http://books.google.com.jm/books?id=5GU8eo601hsC&source=gbs_navlinks_s |archive-date=18 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Salmon|first= Dick|title=Brm: A Mechanic's Tale |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=61KT85wL6RgC|year=2007|publisher=Veloce Publishing |location=Dorchester, UK |isbn=978-1-84584-082-2 |page= 58|quote= Invariably he would greet his friend Peter Collins with the words 'mon ami, mate' and was famous for his bow tie, which earned him the nickname 'Le Pappilon' [''sic''], meaning the butterfly.}}</ref> to the French, he became known as 'Le Papillon' (The Butterfly).<ref name=Skilleter/>