1959 Formula One season

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1959 FIA Formula One World Championship season
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Index: Races by country \| Races by season

The 1959 Formula One season included the 10th FIA Formula One World Championship season, which commenced on May 10, 1959, and ended on December 12 after nine races.

1 Season summary
2 Season review
3 1959 Constructors Championship final standings
4 1959 Drivers Championship final standings
5 Non-Championship race results
6 Notes

[edit] Season summary

Jack Brabham took his first world championship; Cooper cars won five races and BRM finally won one, maintaining British dominance despite the withdrawal of Vanwall. Aston Martin also appeared with a car which, in the face of Cooper's rear-engined revolution, was outdated and overweight. The German Grand Prix was held for the second time on the very high speed AVUS circuit, where Jean Behra was killed during an unrelated sports car race.

[edit] Season review

Rnd	Race	Date	Location	Winning driver	Constructor	Report
1	Monaco Grand Prix	May 10	Monaco	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	Report
2	Indianapolis 500	May 30	Indianapolis	Rodger Ward	Watson-Offenhauser	Report
3	Dutch Grand Prix	May 31	Zandvoort	Joakim Bonnier	BRM	Report
4	French Grand Prix	July 5	Reims	Tony Brooks	Ferrari	Report
5	British Grand Prix	July 18	Aintree	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	Report
6	German Grand Prix	August 2	AVUS	Tony Brooks	Ferrari	Report
7	Portuguese Grand Prix	August 23	Monsanto Park	Stirling Moss	Cooper-Climax	Report
8	Italian Grand Prix	September 13	Monza	Stirling Moss	Cooper-Climax	Report
9	United States Grand Prix	December 12	Sebring	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	Report

[edit] 1959 Constructors Championship final standings

Place	Constructor	Points^[1]
1	Cooper-Climax	40 (53)
2	Ferrari	32 (38)
3	BRM	18
4	Lotus-Climax	5
5	Cooper-Maserati	0
6	Aston Martin	0
7	Porsche	0
8	Maserati	0
9	Connaught	0
10	JBW-Maserati	0
11	Fry-Climax	0
12	Vanwall	0
13	Cooper-OSCA	0
14	Cooper-Borgward	0
15	Tec-Mec-Maserati	0
16	Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser	0

[edit] 1959 Drivers Championship final standings

Pos.	Driver	MON	500	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	POR	ITA	USA	Pts.^[1]
1	Jack Brabham	1*		2	3	1	Ret	Ret	3	4	31 (34)
2	Tony Brooks	2		Ret	1	Ret	1*	9	Ret	3	27
3	Stirling Moss	Ret		Ret*	DSQ*	2*	Ret	1*	1	Ret	25.5
4	Phil Hill	4		6	2		3	Ret	2*	Ret	20
5	Maurice Trintignant	3		8	11	5	4	4	9	2*	19
6	Bruce McLaren	5			5	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	1	16.5
7	Dan Gurney				Ret		2	3	4		13
8	Joakim Bonnier	Ret		1	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	8		10
9	Masten Gregory	Ret		3	Ret	7	Ret	2			10
10	Rodger Ward		1							Ret	8
11	Jim Rathmann		2								6
12	Johnny Thomson		3*								5
13	Harry Schell	Ret		Ret	7	4	7	5	7	Ret	5
14	Innes Ireland			4	Ret		Ret	Ret	Ret	5	5
15	Olivier Gendebien				4				6		3
16	Tony Bettenhausen		4								3
17	Cliff Allison	Ret		9			Ret		5	Ret	2
18	Jean Behra	Ret		5	Ret						2
19	Paul Goldsmith		5								2
20	Roy Salvadori	6		Ret	Ret	6		6	Ret	Ret	0
21	Ron Flockhart	Ret			6	Ret		7	13		0
22	Ian Burgess				Ret	Ret	6		14		0
23	Wolfgang von Trips	Ret								6	0
24	Johnny Boyd		6								0
25	Graham Hill	Ret		7	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	Ret		0
26	Duane Carter		7								0
27	Harry Blanchard									7	0
28	Carroll Shelby			Ret		Ret		8	10		0
29	Giorgio Scarlatti	DNQ			8				12		0
30	Alan Stacey					8				Ret	0
31	Eddie Johnson		8								0
32	Carel Godin de Beaufort			10	9						0
33	Paul Russo		9								0
34	Fritz d'Orey				10	Ret				Ret	0
35	A. J. Foyt		10								0
36	Chris Bristow					10					0
37	Mario de Araujo Cabral							10			0
38	Colin Davis				Ret				11		0
39	Gene Hartley		11								0
40	Henry Taylor					11					0
41	Bob Veith		12								0
42	Peter Ashdown					12					0
43	Al Herman		13								0
44	Ivor Bueb	DNQ				13					0
45	Jimmy Daywalt		14								0
46	Chuck Arnold		15								0
47	Giulio Cabianca								15		0
48	Jim McWithey		16								0
—	Hans Herrmann					Ret	Ret				0
—	Jack Fairman					Ret			Ret		0
—	Bruce Halford	Ret									0
—	Eddie Sachs		Ret								0
—	Al Keller		Ret								0
—	Dick Rathmann		Ret								0
—	Bill Cheesbourg		Ret								0
—	Don Freeland		Ret								0
—	Ray Crawford		Ret								0
—	Don Branson		Ret								0
—	Bob Christie		Ret								0
—	Bobby Grim		Ret								0
—	Jack Turner		Ret								0
—	Jud Larson		Ret								0
—	Jimmy Bryan		Ret								0
—	Red Amick		Ret								0
—	Len Sutton		Ret								0
—	Pat Flaherty		Ret								0
—	Mike Magill		Ret								0
—	Chuck Weyant		Ret								0
—	Brian Naylor					Ret					0
—	David Piper					Ret					0
—	Mike Taylor					Ret					0
—	Alessandro de Tomaso									Ret	0
—	George Constantine									Ret	0
—	Bob Said									Ret	0
—	Alain de Changy	DNQ									0
—	Lucien Bianchi	DNQ									0
—	Maria Teresa de Filippis	DNQ									0
—	Pete Lovely	DNQ									0
—	Jean Lucienbonnet	DNQ									0
—	Andre Testut	DNQ									0
—	Bill Moss					DNQ					0
—	Keith Greene					DNQ					0
—	Mike Parkes					DNQ					0
—	Trevor Taylor					DNQ					0
—	Dennis Taylor					DNQ					0
—	Tim Parnell					DNQ					0
—	Azdrubal Fontes				DNS						0
—	Phil Cade									DNS	0
Pos.	Driver	MON	500	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	POR	ITA	USA	Pts.

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Did not finish (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
Light blue	Practiced only (PO)
Light blue	Friday test driver (TD) - from 2003 onwards
Blank	Did not practice (DNP)
	Injured or ill (Inj)
	Excluded (EX)
	Did not arrive (DNA)
	Withdrew entry before the event (WD)

* Fastest lap (1 point awarded)

[edit] Non-Championship race results

Other Formula One races also held in 1959, which did not count towards the World Championship.

Race Name	Circuit	Date	Winning driver	Constructor	Report
VII Glover Trophy	Goodwood	March 30	Stirling Moss	Cooper-Climax	Report
XIV BARC Aintree 200	Aintree	April 18	Jean Behra	Ferrari	Report
XI BRDC International Trophy	Silverstone	May 2	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	Report
VI International Gold Cup	Oulton Park	September 26	Stirling Moss	Cooper-Climax	Report
IV Silver City Trophy	Snetterton	October 10	Ron Flockhart	BRM	Report

[edit] Notes

^ ^a ^b Only the best 5 results counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.

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