1951

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Juan Fangio	Argentine	Alfa Romeo	31	3
2	Alberto Ascari	Italian	Ferrari	25	2
3	José Froilán González	Argentine	Ferrari / Talbot-Lago	24	1
4	NFNino Farina	Italian	Alfa Romeo	19	1
5	Luigi Villoresi	Italian	Ferrari	15	0
6	Piero Taruffi	Italian	Ferrari	10	0
7	LWLee Wallard	American	Kurtis Kraft	9	1
8	Felice Bonetto	Italian	Alfa Romeo	7	0
9	MNMike Nazaruk	American	Kurtis Kraft	6	0
10	RPReg Parnell	British	BRM / Ferrari	5	0
11	Luigi Fagioli	Italian	Alfa Romeo	4	1
12	Consalvo Sanesi	Italian	Alfa Romeo	3	0
13	LRLouis Rosier	French	Talbot-Lago	3	0
14	ALAndy Linden	American	Sherman	3	0
15	Jack McGrath	American	Kurtis Kraft	2	0
16	MAManny Ayulo	American	Kurtis Kraft	2	0
17	Toulo de Graffenried	Swiss	Alfa Romeo / Maserati	2	0
18	YCYves Cabantous	French	Talbot-Lago	2	0
19	BBBobby Ball	American	Schroeder	2	0
—	GAGeorge Abecassis	British	HWM	0	0
—	FAFred Agabashian	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	Henry Banks	American	Moore	0	0
—	Tony Bettenhausen	American	Deidt	0	0
—	PBPrince Bira	Thai	Maserati	0	0
—	TBToni Branca	Swiss	Maserati	0	0
—	WBWalt Brown	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	DCDuane Carter	American	Deidt	0	0
—	ECEugène Chaboud	French	Talbot-Lago	0	0
—	Louis Chiron	Monegasque	Maserati / Talbot-Lago	0	0
—	JCJohnny Claes	Belgian	Talbot-Lago	0	0
—	GCGeorge Connor	American	Lesovsky	0	0
—	JDJimmy Davies	American	Pawl	0	0
—	DDDuke Dinsmore	American	Schroeder	0	0
—	Walt Faulkner	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	RFRudi Fischer	Swiss	Ferrari	0	0
—	CFCarl Forberg	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	GFGene Force	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	PFPhilip Fotheringham-Parker	British	Maserati	0	0
—	BGBob Gerard	British	ERA	0	0
—	PGPaco Godia	Spanish	Maserati	0	0
—	AGAldo Gordini	French	Simca	0	0
—	CGCecil Green	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	CGCliff Griffith	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	GGGeorges Grignard	French	Talbot-Lago	0	0
—	DHDuncan Hamilton	British	Talbot-Lago	0	0
—	Sam Hanks	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	MHMack Hellings	American	Deidt	0	0
—	PHPeter Hirt	Swiss	Veritas	0	0
—	Joe James	American	Watson	0	0
—	JJJohn James	British	Maserati	0	0
—	JJJuan Jover	Spanish	Maserati	0	0
—	JKJoe Kelly	Irish	Alta	0	0
—	CLChico Landi	Brazilian	Ferrari	0	0
—	PLPierre Levegh	French	Talbot-Lago	0	0
—	HLHenri Louveau	French	Talbot-Lago	0	0
—	BMBill Mackey	American	Hall	0	0
—	GMGuy Mairesse	French	Talbot-Lago	0	0
—	RMRobert Manzon	French	Simca	0	0
—	Onofre Marimón	Argentine	Maserati	0	0
—	JMJohnny McDowell	American	Maserati	0	0
—	CMChet Miller	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	SMStirling Moss	British	HWM	0	0
—	DMDavid Murray	British	Maserati	0	0
—	DNDuke Nalon	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	Johnnie Parsons	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	PPPaul Pietsch	German	Alfa Romeo	0	0
—	APAndré Pilette	Belgian	Talbot-Lago	0	0
—	KRKen Richardson	British	BRM	0	0
—	FRFranco Rol	Italian	OSCA	0	0
—	MRMauri Rose	American	Deidt	0	0
—	TRTroy Ruttman	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	CSCarl Scarborough	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	HSHarry Schell	American	Maserati	0	0
—	BSBill Schindler	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	BTBrian Shawe Taylor	British	ERA	0	0
—	ASAndré Simon	French	Simca	0	0
—	Chuck Stevenson	American	Marchese	0	0
—	Jacques Swaters	American	Talbot-Lago	0	0
—	MTMaurice Trintignant	French	Simca	0	0
—	BVBill Vukovich	American	Trevis	0	0
—	PWPeter Walker	British	BRM	0	0
—	Rodger Ward	American	Bromme	0	0
—	PWPeter Whitehead	British	Ferrari	0	0
—	Philippe Étancelin	French	Talbot-Lago	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 65 of 84 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 8, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 1951, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 1951, not those that entered. There is no constructors’ championship for 1951: the title was first awarded in 1958, and its absence here is history rather than missing data. 1951 is complete: all 8 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.