1956

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Juan Fangio	Argentine	Ferrari	30	3
2	SMStirling Moss	British	Maserati	27	2
3	PCPeter Collins	British	Ferrari	25	2
4	Jean Behra	French	Maserati	22	0
5	PFPat Flaherty	American	Watson	8	1
6	Eugenio Castellotti	Italian	Ferrari	7.5	0
7	Sam Hanks	American	Kurtis Kraft	6	0
8	PFPaul Frère	Belgian	Ferrari	6	0
9	PGPaco Godia	Spanish	Maserati	6	0
10	JFJack Fairman	British	Connaught	5	0
11	Luigi Musso	Italian	Ferrari	4	1
12	MHMike Hawthorn	British	BRM / Maserati / Vanwall	4	0
13	RFRon Flockhart	British	BRM / Connaught	4	0
14	DFDon Freeland	American	Phillips	4	0
15	Alfonso de Portago	Spanish	Ferrari	3	0
16	CPCesare Perdisa	Italian	Maserati	3	0
17	HSHarry Schell	American	Maserati / Vanwall	3	0
18	Johnnie Parsons	American	Kurtis Kraft	3	0
19	LRLouis Rosier	French	Maserati	2	0
20	Luigi Villoresi	Italian	Maserati	2	0
21	HGHorace Gould	British	Maserati	2	0
22	HRHernando da Silva Ramos	Brazilian	Gordini	2	0
23	Olivier Gendebien	Belgian	Ferrari	2	0
24	Dick Rathmann	American	Kurtis Kraft	2	0
25	GGGerino Gerini	Italian	Maserati	1.5	0
26	CLChico Landi	Brazilian	Maserati	1.5	0
27	Paul Russo	American	Kurtis Kraft	1	0
—	FAFred Agabashian	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	KAKeith Andrews	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	ÉBÉlie Bayol	French	Gordini	0	0
—	Tony Bettenhausen	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JBJo Bonnier	Swedish	Maserati	0	0
—	JBJohnny Boyd	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	Jack Brabham	Australian	Maserati	0	0
—	TBTony Brooks	British	BRM	0	0
—	JBJimmy Bryan	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	Colin Chapman	British	Vanwall	0	0
—	Louis Chiron	Monegasque	Maserati	0	0
—	BCBob Christie	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	RCRay Crawford	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JDJimmy Daywalt	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	DDDuke Dinsmore	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	EEEd Elisian	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	PEPaul Emery	British	Emeryson	0	0
—	BGBilly Garrett	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	BGBob Gerard	British	Cooper	0	0
—	José Froilán González	Argentine	Maserati / Vanwall	0	0
—	ÓGÓscar González	Uruguayan	Maserati	0	0
—	CGCliff Griffith	American	Stevens	0	0
—	BHBruce Halford	British	Maserati	0	0
—	GHGene Hartley	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	AHAl Herman	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	EJEddie Johnson	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	AKAl Keller	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	LLLes Leston	British	Connaught	0	0
—	ALAndy Linden	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	UMUmberto Maglioli	Italian	Maserati	0	0
—	RMRobert Manzon	French	Gordini	0	0
—	Carlos Menditeguy	Argentine	Maserati	0	0
—	AMAndré Milhoux	Belgian	Gordini	0	0
—	POPat O'Connor	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	APAndré Pilette	Belgian	Ferrari / Gordini	0	0
—	LPLuigi Piotti	Italian	Maserati	0	0
—	JRJim Rathmann	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JRJimmy Reece	American	Lesovsky	0	0
—	EREddie Russo	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	TRTroy Ruttman	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	Roy Salvadori	British	Maserati	0	0
—	GSGiorgio Scarlatti	Italian	Ferrari	0	0
—	ABArchie Scott Brown	British	Connaught	0	0
—	PSPiero Scotti	Italian	Connaught	0	0
—	ASAndré Simon	French	Gordini / Maserati	0	0
—	BSBob Sweikert	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	Piero Taruffi	Italian	Vanwall	0	0
—	JTJohnny Thomson	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	DTDesmond Titterington	British	Connaught	0	0
—	JTJohnnie Tolan	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	MTMaurice Trintignant	French	Bugatti / Vanwall	0	0
—	JTJack Turner	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	AUAlberto Uria	Uruguayan	Maserati	0	0
—	BVBob Veith	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	OVOttorino Volonterio	Swiss	Maserati	0	0
—	Rodger Ward	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	Toulo de Graffenried	Swiss	Maserati	0	0
—	WTWolfgang von Trips	German	Ferrari	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 58 of 85 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points. 3 of 85 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 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 1956, 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 1956, not those that entered. There is no constructors’ championship for 1956: the title was first awarded in 1958, and its absence here is history rather than missing data. 1956 is complete: all 8 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.