World Championship of Drivers 1959 standings

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World Championship of Drivers 1959 standings

Championship points standings for the World Championship of Drivers 1959

Position	Driver	Team	Car	Engine	Tyres	Points
1.	Jack Brabham	Cooper Car Co.	Cooper T51	Coventry Climax 2.5	Dunlop	31
2.	Tony Brooks	Scuderia Ferrari, Vandervell Products	Ferrari Dino 246 Vanwall VW 59	Ferrari 2.4 Vanwall 2.5	Dunlop Dunlop	27
3.	Stirling Moss	R R C Walker Racing Team, British Racing Partnership	Cooper T51 BRM P25	Coventry Climax 2.5 BRM 2.5	Dunlop Dunlop	25.5
4.	Phil Hill	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari Dino 246	Ferrari 2.4	Dunlop	20
5.	Maurice Trintignant	R R C Walker Racing Team	Cooper T51	Coventry Climax 2.5	Dunlop	19
6.	Bruce McLaren	Cooper Car Co.	Cooper T51 Cooper T51	Coventry Climax 2.2 Coventry Climax 2.5	Dunlop Dunlop	16.5
7.	Dan Gurney	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari Dino 246	Ferrari 2.4	Dunlop	13
8.	Jo Bonnier	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM P25	BRM 2.5	Dunlop	10
9.	Masten Gregory	Cooper Car Co.	Cooper T51	Coventry Climax 2.5	Dunlop	10
10.	Rodger Ward	Leader Cards Inc	Watson Kurtis Kraft Midget	Offenhauser 4.5 Offenhauser 2.5	Firestone Firestone	8
11.	Jim Rathmann	Lindsey Hopkins	Watson	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	6
12.	Johnny Thomson	Racing Associates	Lesovsky	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	5
13.	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	Lotus 16	Coventry Climax 2.5	Dunlop	5
13.	Harry Schell	Ecurie Bleue, Owen Racing Organisation	Cooper T51 BRM P25	Coventry Climax 2.2 BRM 2.5	Dunlop Dunlop	5
15.	Tony Bettenhausen	John R Wills	Epperly	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	3
15.	Olivier Gendebien	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari Dino 246	Ferrari 2.4	Dunlop	3
17.	Cliff Allison	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari Dino 156 Ferrari Dino 246	Ferrari 1.5 Ferrari 2.4	Dunlop Dunlop	2
17.	Jean Behra	Scuderia Ferrari, Jean Behra	Ferrari Dino 246 Behra-Porsche RSK	Ferrari 2.4 Porsche 1.5	Dunlop Dunlop	2
17.	Paul Goldsmith	Norman C Demler	Epperly	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	2
	Red Amick	Wheeler-Foutch	Kurtis Kraft 500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Chuck Arnold	Hall-Mar	Kurtis Kraft	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Peter Ashdown	Alan Brown Equipe	Cooper T45	Coventry Climax 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Lucien Bianchi	Equipe Nationale Belge	Cooper T51	Coventry Climax 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Harry Blanchard	Blanchard Automobile Co.	Porsche RSK	Porsche 1.5	Goodyear	0
	Johnny Boyd	Bowes Seal Fast	Epperly	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Don Branson	Bob Estes	Phillips	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Chris Bristow	British Racing Partnership	Cooper T51	Borgward 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Ivor Bueb	British Racing Partnership	Cooper T51 Cooper T51	Coventry Climax 1.5 Borgward 1.5	Dunlop Dunlop	0
	Ian Burgess	Scuderia Centro Sud	Cooper T51	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Giulio Cabianca	Ottorino Volonterio	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Mário Cabral	Scuderia Centro Sud	Cooper T51	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Phil Cade	Phil Cade	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Duane Carter	Smokey's Reverse Torque	Kurtis Kraft 500H	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Bill Cheesbourg	Greenman-Casale	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Bob Christie	Federal Engineering	Kurtis Kraft 500D	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	George Constantine	Mike Taylor	Cooper T45	Coventry Climax 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Bob Cortner		Cornis	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Ray Crawford	Meguiar's Mirror Glaze	Elder	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Fritz d'Orey	Scuderia Centro Sud, Camoradi USA	Maserati 250F Tec-Mec F415	Maserati 2.5 Maserati 2.5	Dunlop Dunlop	0
	Colin Davis	Scuderia Centro Sud	Cooper T51	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Jimmy Daywalt	Federal Engineering	Kurtis Kraft 500E	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Ecurie Maarsbergen, Scuderia Ugolini	Porsche RSK Maserati 250F	Porsche 1.5 Maserati 2.5	Dunlop Dunlop	0
	Alain de Changy	Equipe Nationale Belge	Cooper T51	Coventry Climax 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Maria Teresa de Filippis	Dr. Ing F Porsche KG	Behra-Porsche RSK	Porsche 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Alejandro de Tomaso	Automobili OSCA	Cooper T43	OSCA 2.0	Dunlop	0
	Rex Easton		Lesovsky	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Jack Fairman	High Efficiency Motors	Cooper T43 Cooper T45	Coventry Climax 2.5 Maserati 2.5	Dunlop Dunlop	0
	Pat Flaherty	John Zink Heater	Watson	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Ron Flockhart	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM P25	BRM 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Azdrubal Fontes Bayardo	Scuderia Centro Sud	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	0
	A. J. Foyt	Dean Van Lines	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Don Freeland	Jim Robbins	Kurtis Kraft 500G	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Keith Greene	Gilby Engineering	Cooper T43	Coventry Climax 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Bobby Grim	Sumar	Kurtis Kraft 500G	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Bruce Halford	John Fisher	Lotus 16	Coventry Climax 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Gene Hartley	Drewry's	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Al Herman	Dunn Engineering	Dunn	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Hans Herrmann	Scuderia Centro Sud, British Racing Partnership	Cooper T51 BRM P25	Maserati 2.5 BRM 2.5	Dunlop Dunlop	0
	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	Lotus 16	Coventry Climax 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Eddie Johnson	Bryant Heating & Cooling	Kurtis Kraft 500G	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Al Keller	Helse	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Clarence Walter Larson	Bowes Seal Fast	Kurtis Kraft 500J	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Pete Lovely	Team Lotus	Lotus 16	Coventry Climax 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Jean Lucienbonnet	Jean Lucienbonnet	Cooper T45	Coventry Climax 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Mike Magill	Dayton Steel Foundry	Kurtis Kraft 500G	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Jim McWithey	Ray Brady	Kurtis Kraft 500C	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Bill Moss	United Racing Stable	Cooper T51	Coventry Climax 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Brian Naylor	J B Naylor	JBW 59	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Mike Parkes	David Fry	Fry F2	Coventry Climax 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Tim Parnell	R H H Parnell	Cooper T45	Coventry Climax 1.5	Dunlop	0
	David Piper	Dorchester Service Station	Lotus 16	Coventry Climax 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Dick Rathmann	McNamara	Watson	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Paul Russo	Bardahl	Kurtis Kraft 500G	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Eddie Sachs	Schmidt	Kuzma	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Bob Said	Connaught Cars-Paul Emery	Connaught C	Alta 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Roy Salvadori	High Efficiency Motors, David Brown Corporation	Cooper T45 Aston Martin DBR4/250	Maserati 2.5 Aston Martin 2.5	Dunlop Avon	0
	Giorgio Scarlatti	Cooper Car Co., Scuderia Ugolini	Maserati 250F Cooper T51	Maserati 2.5 Coventry Climax 2.5	Dunlop Dunlop	0
	Carroll Shelby	David Brown Corporation	Aston Martin DBR4/250	Aston Martin 2.5	Avon	0
	Alan Stacey	Team Lotus	Lotus 16	Coventry Climax 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Len Sutton	Wolcott Memorial	Lesovsky	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Dennis Taylor	Dennis Taylor	Lotus 12	Coventry Climax 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Henry Taylor	R H H Parnell	Cooper T51	Coventry Climax 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Mike Taylor	Alan Brown Equipe	Cooper T45	Coventry Climax 1.5	Dunlop	0
	Trevor Taylor	Ace Garage - Rotherham	Cooper T51	Coventry Climax 1.5	Dunlop	0
	André Testut	Monte Carlo Auto Sport	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5	Dunlop	0
	Jack Turner	Travelon Trailer	Christensen	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Jerry Unser		Kurtis Kraft	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Bob Veith	John Zink Heater	Moore	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0
	Wolfgang von Trips	Scuderia Ferrari, Dr. Ing F Porsche KG	Ferrari Dino 246 Porsche 718	Ferrari 2.4 Porsche 1.5	Dunlop Dunlop	0
	Chuck Weyant	McKay	Kurtis Kraft 500J	Offenhauser 4.5	Firestone	0

	Driver	Number
Most race wins	Stirling Moss	2
	Jack Brabham	2
	Tony Brooks	2
Most pole positions	Stirling Moss	4
Most podium positions	Jack Brabham	5
Most podium positions without a win	Phil Hill	3
Most fastest race laps	Stirling Moss	4
Youngest driver	Fritz d'Orey	21 y/o
Oldest driver	Jack Fairman	46 y/o

Nationality of participating drivers

%	Country	Drivers	Number
50%	U.S.A.	Harry Blanchard, Phil Hill, Phil Cade, George Constantine, Masten Gregory, Dan Gurney, Pete Lovely, Bob Said, Harry Schell, Carroll Shelby, Rodger Ward, Jim Rathmann, Johnny Thomson, Tony Bettenhausen, Paul Goldsmith, Johnny Boyd, Duane Carter, Eddie Johnson, Paul Russo, A. J. Foyt, Gene Hartley, Bob Veith, Al Herman, Jimmy Daywalt, Chuck Arnold, Jim McWithey, Eddie Sachs, Al Keller, Pat Flaherty, Dick Rathmann, Bill Cheesbourg, Don Freeland, Ray Crawford, Don Branson, Bob Christie, Bobby Grim, Jack Turner, Chuck Weyant, Clarence Walter Larson, Mike Magill, Red Amick, Len Sutton, Rex Easton, Bob Cortner, Jerry Unser	45
27.8%	Great Britain	Graham Hill, Stirling Moss, Cliff Allison, Peter Ashdown, Chris Bristow, Tony Brooks, Ivor Bueb, Ian Burgess, Colin Davis, Jack Fairman, Ron Flockhart, Keith Greene, Bruce Halford, Innes Ireland, Bill Moss, Brian Naylor, Mike Parkes, Tim Parnell, David Piper, Roy Salvadori, Alan Stacey, Dennis Taylor, Henry Taylor, Trevor Taylor, Mike Taylor	25
4.4%	France	Jean Behra, Jean Lucienbonnet, André Testut, Maurice Trintignant	4
3.3%	Belgium	Lucien Bianchi, Alain de Changy, Olivier Gendebien	3
3.3%	Italy	Giulio Cabianca, Maria Teresa de Filippis, Giorgio Scarlatti	3
2.2%	Germany	Hans Herrmann, Wolfgang von Trips	2
1.1%	Sweden	Jo Bonnier	1
1.1%	Australia	Jack Brabham	1
1.1%	Portugal	Mário Cabral	1
1.1%	Uruguay	Azdrubal Fontes Bayardo	1
1.1%	Netherlands	Carel Godin de Beaufort	1
1.1%	New Zealand	Bruce McLaren	1
1.1%	Brazil	Fritz d'Orey	1
1.1%	Argentina	Alejandro de Tomaso	1

Individual driver statistics for the 1959 World Championship of Drivers

Driver	Age	Races	Wins	Podiums	Poles	Fastest laps
Allison, Cliff	27 y/o	5	0	0	0	0
Amick, Red	30 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Arnold, Chuck	33 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Ashdown, Peter	24 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Behra, Jean	38 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Bettenhausen, Tony	42 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Bianchi, Lucien	24 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Blanchard, Harry	30 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Bonnier, Jo	29 y/o	7	1	1	1	0
Boyd, Johnny	32 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Brabham, Jack	33 y/o	8	2	5	1	1
Branson, Don	39 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Bristow, Chris	21 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Brooks, Tony	27 y/o	8	2	4	2	1
Bueb, Ivor	36 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Burgess, Ian	28 y/o	4	0	0	0	0
Cabianca, Giulio	36 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Cabral, Mário	25 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Cade, Phil	43 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Carter, Duane	46 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Cheesbourg, Bill	32 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Christie, Bob	35 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Constantine, George	41 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Cortner, Bob	32 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Crawford, Ray	43 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
d'Orey, Fritz	21 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Davis, Colin	25 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Daywalt, Jimmy	34 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
de Beaufort, Carel Godin	25 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
de Changy, Alain	37 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
de Filippis, Maria Teresa	32 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
de Tomaso, Alejandro	30 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Easton, Rex	45 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Fairman, Jack	46 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Flaherty, Pat	33 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Flockhart, Ron	36 y/o	5	0	0	0	0
Fontes Bayardo, Azdrubal	36 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Foyt, A. J.	24 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Freeland, Don	34 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Gendebien, Olivier	35 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Goldsmith, Paul	33 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Greene, Keith	21 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Gregory, Masten	27 y/o	6	0	2	0	0
Grim, Bobby	34 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Gurney, Dan	28 y/o	4	0	2	0	0
Halford, Bruce	28 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Hartley, Gene	33 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Herman, Al	32 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Herrmann, Hans	31 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Hill, Graham	30 y/o	7	0	0	0	0
Hill, Phil	32 y/o	7	0	3	0	1
Ireland, Innes	29 y/o	6	0	0	0	0
Johnson, Eddie	40 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Keller, Al	39 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Larson, Clarence Walter	36 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Lovely, Pete	33 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Lucienbonnet, Jean	36 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Magill, Mike	39 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
McLaren, Bruce	21 y/o	7	1	2	0	0
McWithey, Jim	31 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Moss, Bill	25 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Moss, Stirling	29 y/o	8	2	3	4	4
Naylor, Brian	36 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Parkes, Mike	27 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Parnell, Tim	27 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Piper, David	28 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Rathmann, Dick	33 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Rathmann, Jim	30 y/o	1	0	1	0	0
Russo, Paul	45 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Sachs, Eddie	32 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Said, Bob	27 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Salvadori, Roy	37 y/o	7	0	0	0	0
Scarlatti, Giorgio	37 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Schell, Harry	38 y/o	8	0	0	0	0
Shelby, Carroll	36 y/o	4	0	0	0	0
Stacey, Alan	25 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Sutton, Len	33 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Taylor, Dennis	38 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Taylor, Henry	26 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Taylor, Mike	25 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Taylor, Trevor	22 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Testut, André	33 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Thomson, Johnny	37 y/o	1	0	1	1	1
Trintignant, Maurice	41 y/o	8	0	2	0	1
Turner, Jack	39 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Unser, Jerry	26 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Veith, Bob	34 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
von Trips, Wolfgang	31 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Ward, Rodger	38 y/o	2	1	1	0	0
Weyant, Chuck	36 y/o	1	0	0	0	0

#	Date	Circuit	Winner	Second	Third	Pole	FL
1	1959-05-10	Monte Carlo	Brabham	Brooks	Trintignant	Moss	Brabham
2	1959-05-30	Indianapolis	Ward	Rathmann	Thomson	Thomson	Thomson
3	1959-05-31	Zandvoort	Bonnier	Brabham	Gregory	Bonnier	Moss
4	1959-07-05	Reims	Brooks	Hill	Brabham	Brooks	Moss
5	1959-07-18	Aintree	Brabham	Moss	McLaren	Brabham	Moss
6	1959-08-02	Berlin	Brooks	Gurney	Hill	Brooks	Brooks
7	1959-08-23	Lisbon	Moss	Gregory	Gurney	Moss	Moss
8	1959-09-13	Monza	Moss	Hill	Brabham	Moss	Hill
9	1959-12-12	Sebring	McLaren	Trintignant	Brooks	Moss	Trintignant