1953

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Alberto Ascari	Italian	Ferrari	34.5	5
2	Juan Fangio	Argentine	Maserati	28	1
3	NFNino Farina	Italian	Ferrari	26	1
4	MHMike Hawthorn	British	Ferrari	19	1
5	Luigi Villoresi	Italian	Ferrari	17	0
6	José Froilán González	Argentine	Maserati	13.5	0
7	BVBill Vukovich	American	Kurtis Kraft	9	1
8	Toulo de Graffenried	Swiss	Maserati	7	0
9	Felice Bonetto	Italian	Maserati	6.5	0
10	ACArt Cross	American	Kurtis Kraft	6	0
11	Onofre Marimón	Argentine	Maserati	4	0
12	MTMaurice Trintignant	French	Gordini	4	0
13	DCDuane Carter	American	Kurtis Kraft	2	0
14	Sam Hanks	American	Kurtis Kraft	2	0
15	OGOscar Gálvez	Argentine	Maserati	2	0
16	Jack McGrath	American	Kurtis Kraft	2	0
17	Hermann Lang	German	Maserati	2	0
18	Paul Russo	American	Kurtis Kraft	1.5	0
19	FAFred Agabashian	American	Kurtis Kraft	1.5	0
—	KAKurt Adolff	German	Ferrari	0	0
—	MAManny Ayulo	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	JBJohn Barber	British	Cooper	0	0
—	Edgar Barth	German	EMW	0	0
—	EBErwin Bauer	German	Veritas	0	0
—	ÉBÉlie Bayol	French	OSCA	0	0
—	GBGünther Bechem	German	AFM	0	0
—	Jean Behra	French	Gordini	0	0
—	GBGeorges Berger	Belgian	Simca	0	0
—	Tony Bettenhausen	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	PBPrince Bira	Thai	Connaught / Maserati	0	0
—	Pablo Birger	Argentine	Simca	0	0
—	ABAlan Brown	British	Cooper	0	0
—	JBJimmy Bryan	American	Schroeder	0	0
—	YCYves Cabantous	French	HWM	0	0
—	Piero Carini	Italian	Ferrari	0	0
—	Louis Chiron	Monegasque	OSCA	0	0
—	JCJohnny Claes	Belgian	Connaught / Maserati	0	0
—	PCPeter Collins	British	HWM	0	0
—	TCTony Crook	British	Cooper	0	0
—	ACAdolfo Cruz	Argentine	Cooper	0	0
—	JDJimmy Davies	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JDJimmy Daywalt	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	DDDuke Dinsmore	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JFJack Fairman	British	Connaught / HWM	0	0
—	Walt Faulkner	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JFJohn Fitch	American	HWM	0	0
—	TFTheo Fitzau	East German	AFM	0	0
—	PFPat Flaherty	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	DFDon Freeland	American	Watson	0	0
—	PFPaul Frère	Belgian	HWM	0	0
—	BGBob Gerard	British	Cooper	0	0
—	DHDuncan Hamilton	British	HWM	0	0
—	GHGene Hartley	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	WHWilli Heeks	German	Veritas	0	0
—	THTheo Helfrich	German	Veritas	0	0
—	Hans Herrmann	German	Veritas	0	0
—	PHPeter Hirt	Swiss	Ferrari	0	0
—	BHBill Holland	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JHJackie Holmes	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JHJerry Hoyt	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	EJEddie Johnson	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	OKOswald Karch	German	Veritas	0	0
—	EKErnst Klodwig	East German	BMW	0	0
—	RKRudolf Krause	East German	BMW	0	0
—	CLChico Landi	Brazilian	Maserati	0	0
—	ALArthur Legat	Belgian	Veritas	0	0
—	ALAndy Linden	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	ELErnst Loof	German	Veritas	0	0
—	LMLance Macklin	British	HWM	0	0
—	UMUmberto Maglioli	Italian	Ferrari	0	0
—	SMSergio Mantovani	Italian	Maserati	0	0
—	Johnny Mantz	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	RMRobert Manzon	French	Gordini	0	0
—	KMKenneth McAlpine	British	Connaught	0	0
—	EMErnie McCoy	American	Stevens	0	0
—	Carlos Menditeguy	Argentine	Gordini	0	0
—	Roberto Mieres	Argentine	Gordini	0	0
—	SMStirling Moss	British	Connaught / Cooper	0	0
—	Luigi Musso	Italian	Maserati	0	0
—	DNDuke Nalon	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	MNMike Nazaruk	American	Turner	0	0
—	CNCal Niday	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	RNRodney Nuckey	British	Cooper	0	0
—	Johnnie Parsons	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	APAndré Pilette	Belgian	Connaught	0	0
—	JRJim Rathmann	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	TRTony Rolt	British	Connaught	0	0
—	LRLouis Rosier	French	Ferrari	0	0
—	Roy Salvadori	British	Connaught	0	0
—	CSCarl Scarborough	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	HSHarry Schell	American	Gordini	0	0
—	ASAlbert Scherrer	Swiss	HWM	0	0
—	BSBob Scott	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	WSWolfgang Seidel	German	Veritas	0	0
—	Chuck Stevenson	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	JSJimmy Stewart	British	Cooper	0	0
—	Ian Stewart	British	Connaught	0	0
—	Jacques Swaters	American	Ferrari	0	0
—	BSBob Sweikert	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	Marshall Teague	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JTJohnny Thomson	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	FWFred Wacker	American	Gordini	0	0
—	Rodger Ward	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	TWTravis Webb	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	KWKen Wharton	British	Cooper	0	0
—	PWPeter Whitehead	British	Cooper	0	0
—	MTMax de Terra	Swiss	Ferrari	0	0
—	HSHans von Stuck	German	AFM	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 89 of 108 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points. 5 of 108 totals are fractional, which is the sport’s own arithmetic (shared drives split a score, and a race stopped short pays half points), not a rounding artefact.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 9, 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 1953, 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 1953, not those that entered. There is no constructors’ championship for 1953: the title was first awarded in 1958, and its absence here is history rather than missing data. 1953 is complete: all 9 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.