World Championship of Drivers 1956 standings

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World Championship of Drivers 1956 standings

Championship points standings for the World Championship of Drivers 1956

Position	Driver	Team	Car	Engine	Tyres	Points
1.	Juan Manuel Fangio	Scuderia Ferrari	Lancia-Ferrari D50	Lancia 2.5	Englebert	30
2.	Stirling Moss	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	27
3.	Peter Collins	Scuderia Ferrari	Lancia-Ferrari D50 Ferrari 555	Lancia 2.5 Ferrari 2.5	Englebert Englebert	25
4.	Jean Behra	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	22
5.	Pat Flaherty	John Zink	Watson	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	8
6.	Eugenio Castellotti	Scuderia Ferrari	Lancia-Ferrari D50	Lancia 2.5	Englebert	7.5
7.	Paul Frére	Scuderia Ferrari	Lancia-Ferrari D50	Lancia 2.5	Englebert	6
7.	Sam Hanks	Jones & Maley	Kurtis Kraft 500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	6
9.	Paco Godia	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	6
10.	Jack Fairman	Connaught Engineering	Connaught B	Alta 2.5	Avon	5
11.	Ron Flockhart	Owen Racing Organisation, Connaught Engineering	Connaught B BRM P25	Alta 2.5 BRM 2.5	Avon Dunlop	4
11.	Don Freeland	Bob Estes	Phillips	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	4
11.	Mike Hawthorn	Officine Alfieri Maserati, Owen Racing Organisation, Vandervell Products Ltd	Maserati 250F Vanwall VW 2 BRM P25	Maserati 2.5 Vanwall 2.5 BRM 2.5	Pirelli Pirelli Dunlop	4
11.	Luigi Musso	Scuderia Ferrari	Lancia-Ferrari D50	Lancia 2.5	Englebert	4
15.	Alfonso de Portago	Scuderia Ferrari	Lancia-Ferrari D50	Lancia 2.5	Englebert	3
15.	Johnnie Parsons	Agajanian	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	3
15.	Harry Schell	Vandervell Products, Scuderia Centro Sud	Maserati 250F Vanwall VW 2	Maserati 2.5 Vanwall 2.5	Pirelli Pirelli	3
18.	Cesare Perdisa	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	3
19.	Hermano da Silva Ramos	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T32 Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5 Gordini 2.5	Englebert Englebert	2
19.	Olivier Gendebien	Scuderia Ferrari	Lancia-Ferrari D50 Ferrari 555	Lancia 2.5 Ferrari 2.5	Englebert Englebert	2
19.	Horace Gould	Gould's Garage	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	2
19.	Dick Rathmann	McNamara	Kurtis Kraft 500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	2
19.	Louis Rosier	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	2
19.	Luigi Villoresi	Officine Alfieri Maserati, Scuderia Centro Sud, Luigi Piotti	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	2
25.	Gerino Gerini	Officine Alfieri Maserati, Scuderia Guastalla	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	1.5
25.	Chico Landi	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	1.5
27.	Paul Russo	Novi Vespa	Kurtis Novi 8V	Novi 3.0 s/c	Firestone	1
	Freddie Agabashian	Federal Engineering	Kurtis Kraft 500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Keith Andrews	Dunn Engineering	Kurtis Kraft 500B	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Élie Bayol	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T32	Gordini 2.5	Englebert	0
	Tony Bettenhausen	Belanger Motors	Kurtis Kraft 500D	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Jo Bonnier	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Johnny Boyd	Bowes Seal Fast	Kurtis Kraft 500G	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Jack Brabham	Jack Brabham	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Tony Brooks	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM P25	BRM 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Jimmy Bryan	Dean Van Lines	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Colin Chapman	Vandervell Products Ltd.	Vanwall VW 3	Vanwall 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Louis Chiron	Scuderia Centro Sud	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Bob Christie	Helse	Kurtis Kraft 500D	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Ray Crawford	Crawford	Kurtis Kraft 500B	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Jimmy Daywalt	Sumar	Kurtis Kraft 500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Toulo de Graffenried	Scuderia Centro Sud	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Duke Dinsmore	Shannons	Kurtis Kraft 500A	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Ed Elisian	Hoyt Machine	Kurtis Kraft 500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Paul Emery	Emeryson Cars	Emeryson Mk. 1	Alta 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Giuseppe Farina	Bardahl	Kurtis Kraft 500G	Ferrari 4.4	Firestone	0
	Billy Garrett	Greenman-Casale	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Bob Gerard	Bob Gerard Racing	Cooper T23	Bristol 2.0	Dunlop	0
	José Froilán González	Officine Alfieri Maserati, Vandervell Products Ltd.	Maserati 250F Vanwall VW 2	Maserati 2.5 Vanwall 2.5	Pirelli Pirelli	0
	Oscar Gonzalez	Alberto Uria	Maserati A6GCM	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Cliff Griffith	Jim Robbins	Stevens	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Bruce Halford	Bruce Halford	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Gene Hartley	Central Excavating	Kurtis Kraft 500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Al Herman	Bardahl	Kurtis Kraft 500B	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Eddie Johnson	Central Excavating	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Al Keller	Sam Traylor	Kurtis Kraft 4000	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Les Leston	Connaught Engineering	Connaught B	Alta 2.5	Avon	0
	Andy Linden	Chapman	Kurtis Kraft 500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Umberto Maglioli	Scuderia Guastalla, Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Robert Manzon	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T32 Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5 Gordini 2.5	Englebert Englebert	0
	Carlos Menditeguy	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	0
	André Milhoux	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T32	Gordini 2.5	Englebert	0
	Pat O'Connor	Ansted Rotary	Kurtis Kraft 500D	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	André Pilette	Equipe Gordini, Scuderia Ferrari	Gordini T16 Lancia-Ferrari D50 Gordini T32	Gordini 2.5 Lancia 2.5 Gordini 2.5	Englebert Englebert Englebert	0
	Luigi Piotti	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Jim Rathmann	Hopkins	Kurtis Kraft 500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Jimmy Reece	Massaglia Hotels	Lesovsky	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Eddie Russo	Hoyt Machine	Kurtis Kraft 500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Troy Ruttman	John Zink	Kurtis Kraft 500D	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Eddie Sachs		Kurtis Kraft	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Roy Salvadori	Gilby Engineering	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Giorgio Scarlatti	Scuderia Centro Sud, Giorgio Scarlatti	Ferrari 500	Ferrari 2.0	Pirelli	0
	Archie Scott Brown	Connaught Engineering	Connaught B	Alta 2.5	Avon	0
	Piero Scotti	Piero Scotti	Connaught B	Alta 2.5	Pirelli	0
	André Simon	André Simon, Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16 Maserati 250F	Gordini 2.5 Maserati 2.5	Englebert Pirelli	0
	Bob Sweikert	D-A Lubicrant	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Piero Taruffi	Officine Alfieri Maserati, Vandervell Products Ltd.	Maserati 250F Vanwall VW 2	Maserati 2.5 Vanwall 2.5	Pirelli Pirelli	0
	Johnny Thomson	Schmidt	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Desmond Titterington	Connaught Engineering	Connaught B	Alta 2.5	Avon	0
	Johnnie Tolan	Trio Brass Foundry	Kurtis Kraft 500D	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Maurice Trintignant	Vandervell Products Ltd, Automobiles Bugatti	Vanwall VW 2 Bugatti T251	Vanwall 2.5 Bugatti 2.5	Pirelli Englebert	0
	Jack Turner	Travelon Trailer	Kurtis Kraft 500B	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Alberto Uria	Alberto Uria	Maserati A6GCM	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Bob Veith	Federal Engineering	Kurtis Kraft 500E	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Ottorino Volonterio	Ottorino Volonterio	Maserati A6GCM	Maserati 2.5	Pirelli	0
	Wolfgang von Trips	Scuderia Ferrari	Lancia-Ferrari D50	Lancia 2.5	Englebert	0
	Rodger Ward	Filter Queen	Kurtis Kraft 500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0

	Driver	Number
Most race wins	Juan Manuel Fangio	3
Most pole positions	Juan Manuel Fangio	6
Most podium positions	Jean Behra	5
	Peter Collins	5
Most podium positions without a win	Jean Behra	5
Most fastest race laps	Juan Manuel Fangio	4
Youngest driver	Billy Garrett	23 y/o
Oldest driver	Louis Chiron	56 y/o

Nationality of participating drivers

%	Country	Drivers	Number
41.4%	U.S.A.	Harry Schell, Pat Flaherty, Sam Hanks, Don Freeland, Johnnie Parsons, Dick Rathmann, Paul Russo, Bob Sweikert, Bob Veith, Rodger Ward, Jimmy Reece, Cliff Griffith, Gene Hartley, Freddie Agabashian, Bob Christie, Al Keller, Eddie Johnson, Billy Garrett, Duke Dinsmore, Pat O'Connor, Jimmy Bryan, Jim Rathmann, Johnnie Tolan, Tony Bettenhausen, Ed Elisian, Jimmy Daywalt, Jack Turner, Keith Andrews, Andy Linden, Al Herman, Ray Crawford, Johnny Boyd, Troy Ruttman, Johnny Thomson, Eddie Sachs, Eddie Russo	36
17.2%	Great Britain	Stirling Moss, Mike Hawthorn, Tony Brooks, Roy Salvadori, Bob Gerard, Peter Collins, Jack Fairman, Ron Flockhart, Horace Gould, Paul Emery, Bruce Halford, Colin Chapman, Archie Scott Brown, Desmond Titterington, Les Leston	15
12.6%	Italy	Luigi Musso, Giorgio Scarlatti, Luigi Villoresi, Piero Taruffi, Eugenio Castellotti, Cesare Perdisa, Umberto Maglioli, Luigi Piotti, Gerino Gerini, Piero Scotti, Giuseppe Farina	11
6.9%	France	Louis Rosier, Maurice Trintignant, Jean Behra, André Simon, Élie Bayol, Robert Manzon	6
4.6%	Belgium	André Pilette, Paul Frére, Olivier Gendebien, André Milhoux	4
3.4%	Argentina	Juan Manuel Fangio, José Froilán González, Carlos Menditeguy	3
2.3%	Switzerland	Toulo de Graffenried, Ottorino Volonterio	2
2.3%	Spain	Paco Godia, Alfonso de Portago	2
2.3%	Brazil	Hermano da Silva Ramos, Chico Landi	2
2.3%	Uruguay	Alberto Uria, Oscar Gonzalez	2
1.1%	Germany	Wolfgang von Trips	1
1.1%	Sweden	Jo Bonnier	1
1.1%	Australia	Jack Brabham	1
1.1%	Monaco	Louis Chiron	1

Individual driver statistics for the 1956 World Championship of Drivers

Driver	Age	Races	Wins	Podiums	Poles	Fastest laps
Agabashian, Freddie	42 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Andrews, Keith	36 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Bayol, Élie	42 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Behra, Jean	35 y/o	7	0	5	0	0
Bettenhausen, Tony	39 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Bonnier, Jo	26 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Boyd, Johnny	29 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Brabham, Jack	30 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Brooks, Tony	24 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Bryan, Jimmy	30 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Castellotti, Eugenio	25 y/o	7	0	1	0	0
Chapman, Colin	28 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Chiron, Louis	56 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Christie, Bob	32 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Collins, Peter	24 y/o	7	2	5	0	0
Crawford, Ray	40 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
da Silva Ramos, Hermano	30 y/o	4	0	0	0	0
Daywalt, Jimmy	31 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
de Graffenried, Toulo	42 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
de Portago, Alfonso	27 y/o	4	0	1	0	0
Dinsmore, Duke	43 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Elisian, Ed	29 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Emery, Paul	39 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Fairman, Jack	43 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Fangio, Juan Manuel	45 y/o	7	3	4	6	4
Farina, Giuseppe	49 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Flaherty, Pat	30 y/o	1	1	1	1	0
Flockhart, Ron	33 y/o	2	0	1	0	0
Freeland, Don	31 y/o	1	0	1	0	0
Frére, Paul	39 y/o	1	0	1	0	0
Garrett, Billy	23 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Gendebien, Olivier	32 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Gerard, Bob	42 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Gerini, Gerino	27 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Godia, Paco	35 y/o	5	0	0	0	0
González, José Froilán	33 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Gonzalez, Oscar	32 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Gould, Horace	37 y/o	4	0	0	0	0
Griffith, Cliff	40 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Halford, Bruce	25 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Hanks, Sam	41 y/o	1	0	1	0	0
Hartley, Gene	30 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Hawthorn, Mike	27 y/o	4	0	1	0	0
Herman, Al	29 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Johnson, Eddie	37 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Keller, Al	36 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Landi, Chico	48 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Leston, Les	35 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Linden, Andy	34 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Maglioli, Umberto	28 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Manzon, Robert	39 y/o	5	0	0	0	0
Menditeguy, Carlos	40 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Milhoux, André	27 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Moss, Stirling	26 y/o	7	2	4	1	3
Musso, Luigi	31 y/o	4	1	1	0	0
O'Connor, Pat	27 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Parsons, Johnnie	37 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Perdisa, Cesare	23 y/o	5	0	1	0	0
Pilette, André	37 y/o	4	0	0	0	0
Piotti, Luigi	42 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Rathmann, Dick	30 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Rathmann, Jim	27 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Reece, Jimmy	26 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Rosier, Louis	50 y/o	5	0	0	0	0
Russo, Eddie	30 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Russo, Paul	42 y/o	1	0	0	0	1
Ruttman, Troy	26 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Sachs, Eddie	29 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Salvadori, Roy	34 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Scarlatti, Giorgio	34 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Schell, Harry	35 y/o	6	0	0	0	0
Scott Brown, Archie	29 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Scotti, Piero	46 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Simon, André	36 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Sweikert, Bob	30 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Taruffi, Piero	49 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Thomson, Johnny	34 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Titterington, Desmond	28 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Tolan, Johnnie	38 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Trintignant, Maurice	38 y/o	5	0	0	0	0
Turner, Jack	36 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Uria, Alberto	31 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Veith, Bob	31 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Villoresi, Luigi	47 y/o	5	0	0	0	0
Volonterio, Ottorino	38 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
von Trips, Wolfgang	28 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Ward, Rodger	35 y/o	1	0	0	0	0

#	Date	Circuit	Winner	Second	Third	Pole	FL
1	1956-01-22	Buenos Aires	Fangio Musso	Behra	Hawthorn	Fangio	Fangio
2	1956-05-13	Monte Carlo	Moss	Collins	Behra	Fangio	Fangio
3	1956-05-30	Indianapolis	Flaherty	Hanks	Freeland	Flaherty	Russo
4	1956-06-03	Spa-Francorchamps	Collins	Frére	Moss Perdisa	Fangio	Moss
5	1956-07-01	Reims	Collins	Castellotti	Behra	Fangio	Fangio
6	1956-07-14	Silverstone	Fangio	Collins de Portago	Behra	Moss	Moss
7	1956-08-05	Nürburgring	Fangio	Moss	Behra	Fangio	Fangio
8	1956-09-02	Monza	Moss	Collins Fangio	Flockhart	Fangio	Moss