1954

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Juan Fangio	Argentine	Maserati / Mercedes	42	6
2	José Froilán González	Argentine	Ferrari	25.14	1
3	MHMike Hawthorn	British	Ferrari	24.64	1
4	MTMaurice Trintignant	French	Ferrari	17	0
5	Karl Kling	German	Mercedes	12	0
6	BVBill Vukovich	American	Kurtis Kraft	8	1
7	Hans Herrmann	German	Mercedes	8	0
8	NFNino Farina	Italian	Ferrari	6	0
9	Luigi Musso	Italian	Maserati	6	0
10	JBJimmy Bryan	American	Kuzma	6	0
11	Roberto Mieres	Argentine	Maserati	6	0
12	Jack McGrath	American	Kurtis Kraft	5	0
13	SMStirling Moss	British	Maserati	4.14	0
14	Onofre Marimón	Argentine	Maserati	4.14	0
15	RMRobert Manzon	French	Ferrari	4	0
16	SMSergio Mantovani	Italian	Maserati	4	0
17	PBPrince Bira	Thai	Maserati	3	0
18	UMUmberto Maglioli	Italian	Ferrari	2	0
19	APAndré Pilette	Belgian	Gordini	2	0
20	Luigi Villoresi	Italian	Lancia / Maserati	2	0
21	ÉBÉlie Bayol	French	Gordini	2	0
22	MNMike Nazaruk	American	Kurtis Kraft	2	0
23	DCDuane Carter	American	Kurtis Kraft	1.5	0
24	TRTroy Ruttman	American	Kurtis Kraft	1.5	0
25	Alberto Ascari	Italian	Ferrari / Lancia / Maserati	1.14	0
26	Jean Behra	French	Gordini	0.14	0
—	FAFred Agabashian	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	FAFrank Armi	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	MAManny Ayulo	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	DBDon Beauman	British	Connaught	0	0
—	GBGeorges Berger	Belgian	Gordini	0	0
—	Tony Bettenhausen	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	EBEric Brandon	British	Cooper	0	0
—	ABAlan Brown	British	Cooper	0	0
—	Clemar Bucci	Argentine	Gordini	0	0
—	PCPeter Collins	British	Vanwall	0	0
—	LCLarry Crockett	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	ACArt Cross	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JDJorge Daponte	Argentine	Maserati	0	0
—	JDJimmy Davies	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JDJimmy Daywalt	American	Nichels	0	0
—	LDLen Duncan	American	Schroeder	0	0
—	EEEd Elisian	American	Stevens	0	0
—	Walt Faulkner	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	PFPat Flaherty	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	RFRon Flockhart	British	Maserati	0	0
—	GFGeorge Fonder	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	DFDon Freeland	American	Phillips	0	0
—	PFPaul Frère	Belgian	Gordini	0	0
—	BGBob Gerard	British	Cooper	0	0
—	PGPaco Godia	Spanish	Maserati	0	0
—	HGHorace Gould	British	Cooper	0	0
—	Sam Hanks	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	GHGene Hartley	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	THTheo Helfrich	German	Klenk	0	0
—	BHBill Homeier	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JHJerry Hoyt	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JJJimmy Jackson	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	EJEddie Johnson	American	Pawl	0	0
—	DKDanny Kladis	American	Bromme	0	0
—	Hermann Lang	German	Mercedes	0	0
—	ALAndy Linden	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	RLRoger Loyer	French	Gordini	0	0
—	LMLance Macklin	British	HWM	0	0
—	Leslie Marr	British	Connaught	0	0
—	EMErnie McCoy	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	Carlos Menditeguy	Argentine	Maserati	0	0
—	CNCal Niday	American	Stevens	0	0
—	RNRodney Nuckey	British	Cooper	0	0
—	POPat O'Connor	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	RPReg Parnell	British	Ferrari	0	0
—	Johnnie Parsons	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JPJacques Pollet	French	Gordini	0	0
—	JRJim Rathmann	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JRJimmy Reece	American	Pankratz	0	0
—	JRJohn Riseley-Prichard	British	Connaught	0	0
—	LRLouis Rosier	French	Ferrari / Maserati	0	0
—	Paul Russo	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	Roy Salvadori	British	Maserati	0	0
—	HSHarry Schell	American	Maserati	0	0
—	BSBob Scott	American	Stevens	0	0
—	Chuck Stevenson	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	Jacques Swaters	American	Ferrari	0	0
—	BSBob Sweikert	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	Piero Taruffi	Italian	Ferrari	0	0
—	Marshall Teague	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JTJohnny Thomson	American	Nichels	0	0
—	LTLeslie Thorne	British	Connaught	0	0
—	OVOttorino Volonterio	Swiss	Maserati	0	0
—	FWFred Wacker	American	Gordini	0	0
—	Rodger Ward	American	Pawl	0	0
—	TWTravis Webb	American	Bromme	0	0
—	KWKen Wharton	British	Maserati	0	0
—	PWPeter Whitehead	British	Cooper	0	0
—	BWBill Whitehouse	British	Connaught	0	0
—	Toulo de Graffenried	Swiss	Maserati	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 70 of 96 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points. 8 of 96 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 1954, 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 1954, not those that entered. There is no constructors’ championship for 1954: the title was first awarded in 1958, and its absence here is history rather than missing data. 1954 is complete: all 9 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.