1955

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Juan Fangio	Argentine	Mercedes	40	4
2	SMStirling Moss	British	Mercedes	23	1
3	Eugenio Castellotti	Italian	Ferrari / Lancia	12	0
4	MTMaurice Trintignant	French	Ferrari	10	1
5	NFNino Farina	Italian	Ferrari	9	0
6	Piero Taruffi	Italian	Ferrari / Mercedes	9	0
7	BSBob Sweikert	American	Kurtis Kraft	8	1
8	Roberto Mieres	Argentine	Maserati	7	0
9	Jean Behra	French	Maserati	6	0
10	Luigi Musso	Italian	Maserati	6	0
11	Karl Kling	German	Mercedes	5	0
12	JDJimmy Davies	American	Kurtis Kraft	4	0
13	Tony Bettenhausen	American	Kurtis Kraft	3	0
14	Paul Russo	American	Kurtis Kraft	3	0
15	PFPaul Frère	Belgian	Ferrari	3	0
16	JTJohnny Thomson	American	Kuzma	3	0
17	José Froilán González	Argentine	Ferrari	2	0
18	CPCesare Perdisa	Italian	Maserati	2	0
19	Carlos Menditeguy	Argentine	Maserati	2	0
20	Luigi Villoresi	Italian	Ferrari / Lancia	2	0
21	UMUmberto Maglioli	Italian	Ferrari	1.33	0
22	Hans Herrmann	German	Mercedes	1	0
23	Walt Faulkner	American	Kurtis Kraft	1	0
24	BHBill Homeier	American	Kurtis Kraft	1	0
25	BVBill Vukovich	American	Kurtis Kraft	1	0
—	FAFred Agabashian	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	KAKeith Andrews	American	Schroeder	0	0
—	Alberto Ascari	Italian	Lancia	0	0
—	ÉBÉlie Bayol	French	Gordini	0	0
—	Pablo Birger	Argentine	Gordini	0	0
—	JBJohnny Boyd	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	Jack Brabham	Australian	Cooper	0	0
—	JBJimmy Bryan	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	Clemar Bucci	Argentine	Maserati	0	0
—	DCDuane Carter	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	Louis Chiron	Monegasque	Lancia	0	0
—	JCJohnny Claes	Belgian	Ferrari / Maserati	0	0
—	PCPeter Collins	British	Maserati	0	0
—	RCRay Crawford	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	ACArt Cross	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JDJimmy Daywalt	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	EEEd Elisian	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JFJack Fairman	British	Connaught	0	0
—	JFJohn Fitch	American	Maserati	0	0
—	PFPat Flaherty	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	DFDon Freeland	American	Phillips	0	0
—	HGHorace Gould	British	Maserati	0	0
—	Sam Hanks	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	MHMike Hawthorn	British	Ferrari / Vanwall	0	0
—	AHAl Herman	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JHJerry Hoyt	American	Stevens	0	0
—	JIJesús Iglesias	Argentine	Gordini	0	0
—	EJEddie Johnson	American	Trevis	0	0
—	AKAl Keller	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	ALAndy Linden	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JLJean Lucas	French	Gordini	0	0
—	LMLance Macklin	British	Maserati	0	0
—	SMSergio Mantovani	Italian	Maserati	0	0
—	RMRobert Manzon	French	Gordini	0	0
—	Leslie Marr	British	Connaught	0	0
—	KMKenneth McAlpine	British	Connaught	0	0
—	Jack McGrath	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	CNCal Niday	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	POPat O'Connor	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	Johnnie Parsons	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	LPLuigi Piotti	Italian	Arzani-Volpini	0	0
—	JPJacques Pollet	French	Gordini	0	0
—	JRJim Rathmann	American	Epperly	0	0
—	JRJimmy Reece	American	Pankratz	0	0
—	TRTony Rolt	British	Connaught	0	0
—	LRLouis Rosier	French	Maserati	0	0
—	EREddie Russo	American	Pawl	0	0
—	Roy Salvadori	British	Maserati	0	0
—	HSHarry Schell	American	Ferrari / Maserati / Vanwall	0	0
—	ASAndré Simon	French	Maserati / Mercedes	0	0
—	MSMike Sparken	French	Gordini	0	0
—	STShorty Templeman	American	Trevis	0	0
—	AUAlberto Uria	Uruguayan	Maserati	0	0
—	PWPeter Walker	British	Connaught / Maserati	0	0
—	Rodger Ward	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	CWChuck Weyant	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	KWKen Wharton	British	Vanwall	0	0
—	HRHernando da Silva Ramos	Brazilian	Gordini	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 58 of 83 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points. 1 of 83 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 7, 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 1955, 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 1955, not those that entered. There is no constructors’ championship for 1955: the title was first awarded in 1958, and its absence here is history rather than missing data. 1955 is complete: all 7 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.