1959 FORMULA ONE SEASON

The '1959 Formula One season' was the 10th FIA Formula One World Championship season. It commenced on May 10, 1959, and ended on December 12 after ninth races.

Contents

Season summary

Season review

1959 Constructors Championship final standings

1959 Drivers Championship final standings

Non-Championship race results

Notes

Season summary

Brabhham took his first world championship; Cooper 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 Aston Martin also appeared with a car which, in the face of Cooper's rear-engined revolution, was outdated and overweight.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 a sports car race.

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

1959 Constructors Championship final standings

Place	Constructor	Points
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

1959 Drivers Championship final standings

Place	Driver	Country	Points[1]	Wins	Podiums	Poles
1	Jack Brabham	Australia	31 (34)	2	5	1
2	Tony Brooks	Britain	27	2	4	2
3	Stirling Moss	Britain	22	2	3	4
4	Phil Hill	USA	19		3
5	Maurice Trintignant	France	18		2
6	Bruce McLaren	New Zealand	16	1	2
7	Dan Gurney	USA	13		2
8	Masten Gregory	USA	10		2
9	Joakim Bonnier	Sweden	10	1	1	1
10	Rodger Ward	USA	8	1	1
11	Jim Rathmann	USA	6		1
12	Innes Ireland	Britain	5
13	Harry Schell	USA	5
14	Johnny Thomson	USA	4		1	1
15	Olivier Gendebien	Belgium	3
16	Tony Bettenhausen	USA	3
17	Jean Behra	France	2
18	Cliff Allison	Britain	2
19	Paul Goldsmith	USA	2
20	Jean Lucienbonnet	France
21	Jim McWithey	USA
22	Mario de Araujo Cabral	Portugal
23	Keith Greene	Britain
24	Jimmy Bryan	USA
25	Jimmy Daywalt	USA
26	Johnny Boyd	USA
27	Jack Turner	USA
28	Jack Fairman	Britain
29	Jud Larson	USA
30	Pat Flaherty	USA
31	Ron Flockhart	Britain
32	Red Amick	USA
33	Ray Crawford	USA
34	Peter Ashdown	Britain
35	Pete Lovely	USA
36	Lucien Bianchi	Belgium
37	Paul Russo	USA
38	Len Sutton	USA
39	Mike Parkes	Britain
40	Mike Magill	USA
41	Wolfgang von Trips	Germany
42	A.J. Foyt	USA
43	Roy Salvadori	Britain
44	Maria Teresa de Filippis	Italy
45	Trevor Taylor	Britain
46	Bob Christie	USA
47	Chuck Arnold	USA
48	Chris Bristow	Britain
49	Carroll Shelby	USA
50	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Netherlands
51	Bruce Halford	Britain
52	Brian Naylor	Britain
53	Bobby Grim	USA
54	Chuck Weyant	USA
55	Bob Said	USA
56	Bill Cheesbourg	USA
57	Bill Moss	Britain
58	Andre Testut	Monaco
59	Alan Stacey	Britain
60	Alain de Changy	Belgium
61	Al Keller	USA
62	Al Herman	USA
63	Ivor Bueb	Britain
64	Mike Taylor	USA
65	Bob Veith	USA
66	Giulio Cabianca	Italy
67	Alessandro de Tomaso	Argentina
68	Henry Taylor	USA
69	Harry Blanchard	USA
70	Graham Hill	Britain
71	Ian Burgess	Britain
72	Giorgio Scarlatti	Italy
73	George Constantine	USA
74	Gene Hartley	USA
75	Fritz d'Orey	Brazil
76	David Piper	Britain
77	Eddie Johnson	USA
78	Duane Carter	USA
79	Don Freeland	USA
80	Don Branson	USA
81	Dick Rathmann	USA
82	Dennis Taylor	USA
83	Colin Davis	Britain
84	Hans Herrmann	Germany
85	Eddie Sachs	USA

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

Notes

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