World Championship of Drivers 1955 standings

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World Championship of Drivers 1955 standings

Championship points standings for the World Championship of Drivers 1955

Position	Driver	Team	Car	Engine	Tyres	Points
1.	Juan Manuel Fangio	Daimler Benz AG	Mercedes-Benz W196	Mercedes-Benz 2.5	Continental	40
2.	Stirling Moss	Daimler Benz AG	Mercedes-Benz W196	Mercedes-Benz 2.5	Continental	23
3.	Eugenio Castellotti	Scuderia Lancia, Scuderia Ferrari	Lancia D50 Ferrari 555 Ferrari 625	Lancia 2.5 Ferrari 2.5 Ferrari 2.5	Pirelli Englebert Englebert	12
4.	Maurice Trintignant	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 625 Ferrari 555	Ferrari 2.5 Ferrari 2.5	Englebert Englebert	11.33
5.	Giuseppe Farina	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 555 Ferrari 625 Lancia D50	Ferrari 2.5 Ferrari 2.5 Lancia 2.5	Englebert Englebert Englebert	10.33
6.	Piero Taruffi	Scuderia Ferrari, Daimler Benz AG	Ferrari 555 Mercedes-Benz W196	Ferrari 2.5 Mercedes-Benz 2.5	Englebert Continental	9
7.	Bob Sweikert	John Zink	Kurtis KK500D	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	8
8.	Roberto Miéres	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	7
9.	Jean Behra	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	6
9.	Luigi Musso	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	6
11.	Karl Kling	Daimler Benz AG	Mercedes-Benz W196	Mercedes-Benz 2.5	Continental	5
12.	Jimmy Davies	Bardahl	Kurtis KK500B	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	4
13.	Tony Bettenhausen	Chapman	Kurtis KK500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	3
13.	Paul Frére	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 555	Ferrari 2.5	Englebert	3
13.	Paul Russo	Chapman	Kurtis KK500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	3
13.	Johnny Thomson	Schmidt	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	3
17.	José Froilán González	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 625	Ferrari 2.5	Englebert	2
17.	Carlos Menditeguy	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	2
17.	Cesare Perdisa	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	2
17.	Luigi Villoresi	Scuderia Lancia, Scuderia Ferrari	Lancia D50 Lancia D50	Lancia 2.5 Lancia 2.5	Pirelli Englebert	2
21.	Umberto Maglioli	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 555 Ferrari 625	Ferrari 2.5 Ferrari 2.5	Englebert Englebert	1.33
22.	Walt Faulkner	Merz Engineering	Kurtis KK500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	1
22.	Hans Herrmann	Daimler Benz AG.	Mercedes-Benz W196	Mercedes-Benz 2.5	Continental	1
22.	Bill Homeier	Merz Engineering	Kurtis KK500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	1
22.	Bill Vukovich	Hopkins	Kurtis KK500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	1
	Freddie Agabashian	Federal Engineering	Kurtis KK500D	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Keith Andrews	McDaniel	Schroeder	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Alberto Ascari	Scuderia Lancia	Lancia D50	Lancia 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Manuel Ayulo	Peter Schmidt	Kurtis KK500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Élie Bayol	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5	Englebert	0
	Pablo Birger	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5	Englebert	0
	Johnny Boyd	Sumar	Kurtis KK500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Jack Brabham	Cooper Car Co.	Cooper T40	Bristol 2.0	Dunlop	0
	Jimmy Bryan	Dean Van Lines	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Clemar Bucci	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Duane Carter	Agajanian	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Louis Chiron	Scuderia Lancia	Lancia D50	Lancia 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Johnny Claes	Stirling Moss Ltd., Equipe National Belge	Maserati 250F Ferrari 625	Maserati 2.5 Ferrari 2.5	Dunlop Englebert	0
	Peter Collins	Owen Racing Organisation, Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 Maserati 2.5	Dunlop Pirelli	0
	Ray Crawford	Crawford	Kurtis KK500B	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Art Cross	Belanger Motors	Kurtis KK500D	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Hermano da Silva Ramos	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5	Englebert	0
	Jimmy Daywalt	Sumar	Kurtis	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Len Duncan	Ray Brady	Kurtis KK4000	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Ed Elisian	Westwood Gauge & Tool	Kurtis KK4000	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Jack Fairman	Connaught Engineering	Connaught B	Alta 2.5	Dunlop	0
	John Fitch	Stirling Moss Ltd.	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Pat Flaherty	Dunn Engineering	Kurtis KK500B	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Don Freeland	Bob Estes	Phillips	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Horace Gould	Gould's Garage, Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 Maserati 2.5	Dunlop Pirelli	0
	Sam Hanks	Jones & Maley	Kurtis KK500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Mike Hawthorn	Scuderia Ferrari, Vandervell Products	Ferrari 625 Ferrari 555 Vanwall VW 55	Ferrari 2.5 Ferrari 2.5 Vanwall 2.5	Englebert Englebert Pirelli	0
	Al Herman	Martin Brothers	Silnes	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Jerry Hoyt	Jim Robbins	Stevens	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Jesus Ricardo Iglesias	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5	Englebert	0
	Eddie Johnson	McNamara	Trevis	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Al Keller	Sam Traylor	Kurtis KK2000	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Andy Linden	Massaglia	Kurtis KK4000	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Jean Lucas	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T32	Gordini 2.5	Englebert	0
	Lance Macklin	Stirling Moss Ltd.	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Sergio Mantovani	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Robert Manzon	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5	Englebert	0
	Leslie Marr	Leslie Marr	Connaught B	Alta 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Kenneth McAlpine	Connaught Engineering	Connaught B	Alta 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Jack McGrath	Hinkle	Kurtis KK500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Cal Niday	D-A Lubricant	Kurtis KK500B	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Pat O'Connor	Ansted Rotary	Kurtis KK500D	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Johnnie Parsons	Trio Brass Foundry	Kurtis KK500D	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Luigi Piotti	Scuderia Volpini	Arzani-Volpini Special	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Michel Poberejsky	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5	Englebert	0
	Jacques Pollet	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5	Englebert	0
	Jim Rathmann	Belond Miracle Power	Epperly	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Jimmy Reece	Malloy	Pankratz	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Tony Rolt	R R C Walker Racing Team	Connaught B	Alta 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Louis Rosier	Ecurie Rosier	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Eddie Russo	Dr. Sabourin	Pawl	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Roy Salvadori	Gilby Engineering	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Harry Schell	Officine Alfieri Maserati, Scuderia Ferrari, Vandervell Products	Vanwall VW 55 Ferrari 555 Maserati 250F	Vanwall 2.5 Ferrari 2.5 Maserati 2.5	Pirelli Englebert Pirelli	0
	André Simon	Daimler Benz AG, Officine Alfieri Maserati	Mercedes-Benz W196 Maserati 250F	Mercedes-Benz 2.5 Maserati 2.5	Continental Pirelli	0
	Shorty Templeman	Central Excavating	Trevis	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Alberto Uria	Alberto Uria	Maserati A6GCM	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Peter Walker	Stirling Moss Ltd, R.R.C. Walker Racing Team	Connaught B Maserati 250F	Alta 2.5 Maserati 2.5	Dunlop Dunlop	0
	Rodger Ward	Aristo Blue	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Chuck Weyant	Federal Engineering	Kurtis KK3000	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Ken Wharton	Vandervell Products Ltd.	Vanwall VW 55	Vanwall 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Ted Whiteaway	Ted Whiteaway	HMW 53	Alta 2.5	Dunlop	0

	Driver	Number
Most race wins	Juan Manuel Fangio	4
Most pole positions	Juan Manuel Fangio	3
Most podium positions	Juan Manuel Fangio	5
Most podium positions without a win	Giuseppe Farina	2
	Eugenio Castellotti	2
Most fastest race laps	Juan Manuel Fangio	3
Youngest driver	Cesare Perdisa	22 y/o
Oldest driver	Louis Chiron	55 y/o

Nationality of participating drivers

%	Country	Drivers	Number
45.3%	U.S.A.	Harry Schell, Bob Sweikert, Jimmy Davies, Tony Bettenhausen, Paul Russo, Johnny Thomson, Walt Faulkner, Bill Homeier, Bill Vukovich, John Fitch, Andy Linden, Al Herman, Pat O'Connor, Jimmy Daywalt, Pat Flaherty, Duane Carter, Chuck Weyant, Eddie Johnson, Jim Rathmann, Don Freeland, Cal Niday, Art Cross, Shorty Templeman, Sam Hanks, Keith Andrews, Johnnie Parsons, Eddie Russo, Ray Crawford, Jimmy Bryan, Jack McGrath, Al Keller, Rodger Ward, Johnny Boyd, Ed Elisian, Jerry Hoyt, Freddie Agabashian, Jimmy Reece, Manuel Ayulo, Len Duncan	39
15.1%	Great Britain	Stirling Moss, Mike Hawthorn, Roy Salvadori, Peter Walker, Tony Rolt, Peter Collins, Jack Fairman, Horace Gould, Lance Macklin, Leslie Marr, Kenneth McAlpine, Ken Wharton, Ted Whiteaway	13
11.6%	Italy	Giuseppe Farina, Alberto Ascari, Luigi Musso, Luigi Villoresi, Piero Taruffi, Umberto Maglioli, Sergio Mantovani, Luigi Piotti, Eugenio Castellotti, Cesare Perdisa	10
10.5%	France	Louis Rosier, Maurice Trintignant, André Simon, Élie Bayol, Jean Behra, Robert Manzon, Jacques Pollet, Jean Lucas, Michel Poberejsky	9
8.1%	Argentina	Juan Manuel Fangio, José Froilán González, Carlos Menditeguy, Roberto Miéres, Pablo Birger, Clemar Bucci, Jesus Ricardo Iglesias	7
2.3%	Germany	Hans Herrmann, Karl Kling	2
2.3%	Belgium	Paul Frére, Johnny Claes	2
1.2%	Australia	Jack Brabham	1
1.2%	Monaco	Louis Chiron	1
1.2%	Uruguay	Alberto Uria	1
1.2%	Brazil	Hermano da Silva Ramos	1

Individual driver statistics for the 1955 World Championship of Drivers

Driver	Age	Races	Wins	Podiums	Poles	Fastest laps
Agabashian, Freddie	41 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Andrews, Keith	35 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Ascari, Alberto	36 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Ayulo, Manuel	33 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Bayol, Élie	41 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Behra, Jean	34 y/o	6	0	0	0	0
Bettenhausen, Tony	38 y/o	1	0	1	0	0
Birger, Pablo	31 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Boyd, Johnny	28 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Brabham, Jack	29 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Bryan, Jimmy	29 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Bucci, Clemar	34 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Carter, Duane	42 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Castellotti, Eugenio	24 y/o	6	0	2	1	0
Chiron, Louis	55 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Claes, Johnny	38 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Collins, Peter	23 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Crawford, Ray	39 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Cross, Art	37 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
da Silva Ramos, Hermano	29 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Davies, Jimmy	25 y/o	1	0	1	0	0
Daywalt, Jimmy	30 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Duncan, Len	43 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Elisian, Ed	28 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Fairman, Jack	42 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Fangio, Juan Manuel	44 y/o	6	4	5	3	3
Farina, Giuseppe	48 y/o	3	0	2	0	0
Faulkner, Walt	37 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Fitch, John	37 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Flaherty, Pat	29 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Freeland, Don	30 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Frére, Paul	38 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
González, José Froilán	32 y/o	1	0	1	1	0
Gould, Horace	36 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Hanks, Sam	40 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Hawthorn, Mike	26 y/o	5	0	0	0	0
Herman, Al	28 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Herrmann, Hans	27 y/o	1	0	1	0	0
Homeier, Bill	36 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Hoyt, Jerry	26 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Iglesias, Jesus Ricardo	33 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Johnson, Eddie	36 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Keller, Al	35 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Kling, Karl	44 y/o	5	0	1	0	0
Linden, Andy	33 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Lucas, Jean	38 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Macklin, Lance	35 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Maglioli, Umberto	27 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Mantovani, Sergio	26 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Manzon, Robert	38 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Marr, Leslie	32 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
McAlpine, Kenneth	34 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
McGrath, Jack	35 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Menditeguy, Carlos	39 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Miéres, Roberto	30 y/o	6	0	0	0	1
Moss, Stirling	25 y/o	6	1	3	1	2
Musso, Luigi	30 y/o	6	0	1	0	0
Niday, Cal	41 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
O'Connor, Pat	26 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Parsons, Johnnie	36 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Perdisa, Cesare	22 y/o	2	0	1	0	0
Piotti, Luigi	41 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Poberejsky, Michel	25 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Pollet, Jacques	32 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Rathmann, Jim	26 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Reece, Jimmy	25 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Rolt, Tony	36 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Rosier, Louis	49 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Russo, Eddie	29 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Russo, Paul	41 y/o	1	0	1	0	0
Salvadori, Roy	33 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Schell, Harry	34 y/o	4	0	0	0	0
Simon, André	35 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Sweikert, Bob	29 y/o	1	1	1	0	0
Taruffi, Piero	48 y/o	3	0	1	0	0
Templeman, Shorty	35 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Thomson, Johnny	33 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Trintignant, Maurice	37 y/o	6	1	1	0	0
Uria, Alberto	30 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Villoresi, Luigi	46 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Vukovich, Bill	36 y/o	1	0	0	0	1
Walker, Peter	42 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Ward, Rodger	34 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Weyant, Chuck	32 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Wharton, Ken	39 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Whiteaway, Ted	26 y/o	0	0	0	0	0

#	Date	Circuit	Winner	Second	Third	Pole	FL
1	1955-01-16	Buenos Aires	Fangio	Farina González Herrmann		González	Fangio
2	1955-05-22	Monte Carlo	Trintignant	Castellotti Perdisa		Fangio	Fangio
3	1955-05-30	Indianapolis	Bettenhausen Sweikert		Davies
4	1955-06-05	Spa-Francorchamps	Fangio	Moss	Farina	Castellotti	Fangio
5	1955-06-19	Zandvoort	Fangio	Moss	Musso	Fangio	Miéres
6	1955-07-16	Aintree	Moss	Fangio	Kling	Moss	Moss
7	1955-09-11	Monza	Fangio	Taruffi	Castellotti	Fangio	Moss