F1/1957

1957

Formula One · 8 rounds · January 13, 1957 to September 8, 1957 · 76 drivers · 14 constructors
40
DRIVERS’ CHAMPION · 1957
Juan Fangio · Maserati
CONSTRUCTORS’ CHAMPION · 1957
Not awarded until 1958
8
ROUNDS · 1957
JAN 13 to SEP 8
22
DRIVERS WHO SCORED
of 76 in the championship table

01/Drivers’ championship

Final
8 rounds
PosDriverNatCarPtsWinsShare of the leader
1Juan FangioArgentineMaserati404
2Stirling MossBritishMaserati / Vanwall253
3Luigi MussoItalianFerrari160
4Mike HawthornBritishFerrari130
5Tony BrooksBritishVanwall111
6Masten GregoryAmericanMaserati100
7Harry SchellAmericanMaserati100
8Sam HanksAmericanEpperly81
9Peter CollinsBritishFerrari80
10Jim RathmannAmericanEpperly70
11Jean BehraFrenchMaserati60
12Stuart Lewis-EvansBritishConnaught / Vanwall50
13Maurice TrintignantFrenchFerrari50
14Wolfgang von TripsGermanFerrari40
15Carlos MenditeguyArgentineMaserati40
16Jimmy BryanAmericanKuzma40
17Paul RussoAmericanKurtis Kraft30
18Roy SalvadoriBritishCooper / Vanwall20
19Andy LindenAmericanKurtis Kraft20
20Giorgio ScarlattiItalianMaserati10
21José Froilán GonzálezArgentineFerrari10
22Alfonso de PortagoSpanishFerrari10
Fred AgabashianAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Edgar BarthGermanPorsche00
Tony BettenhausenAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Jo BonnierSwedishMaserati00
Johnny BoydAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Jack BrabhamAustralianCooper00
Ivor BuebBritishConnaught / Maserati00
Eugenio CastellottiItalianFerrari00
Bill CheesbourgAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Bob ChristieAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Jimmy DaywaltAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Don EdmundsAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Ed ElisianAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Paul EnglandAustralianCooper00
Jack FairmanBritishBRM00
Ron FlockhartBritishBRM00
Don FreelandAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Elmer GeorgeAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Bob GerardBritishCooper00
Dick GibsonBritishCooper00
Paco GodiaSpanishMaserati00
Horace GouldBritishMaserati00
Bruce HalfordBritishMaserati00
Gene HartleyAmericanLesovsky00
Al HermanAmericanDunn00
Hans HerrmannGermanMaserati00
Eddie JohnsonAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Al KellerAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Les LestonBritishBRM00
Mike MacDowelBritishCooper00
Herbert MacKay-FraserAmericanBRM00
Mike MagillAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Umberto MaglioliItalianPorsche00
Tony MarshBritishCooper00
Brian NaylorBritishCooper00
Pat O'ConnorAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Johnnie ParsonsAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Cesare PerdisaItalianFerrari00
Luigi PiottiItalianMaserati00
Jimmy ReeceAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Eddie RussoAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Troy RuttmanAmericanWatson00
Eddie SachsAmericanKuzma00
André SimonFrenchMaserati00
Marshall TeagueAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Johnny ThomsonAmericanKuzma00
Johnnie TolanAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Jack TurnerAmericanKurtis Kraft00
Bob VeithAmericanPhillips00
Ottorino VolonterioSwissMaserati00
Rodger WardAmericanLesovsky00
Chuck WeyantAmericanKuzma00
Carel Godin de BeaufortDutchPorsche00
Alessandro de TomasoArgentineFerrari00

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 54 of 76 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.


02/Constructors’ championship

Not awarded
before 1958
No table, and no data is missing

No constructors' championship in 1957. The title for constructors was first awarded in 1958. The drivers’ championship began in 1950, so the 8 seasons from 1950 to 1957 were run with a title for drivers and none for the cars they drove. The constructor a driver raced for is still recorded, and it is printed in the Car column above; what does not exist for 1957 is a championship between constructors. This is the history of the sport, not a gap in the archive.


03/Calendar

8 rounds
Every race
RndDateGrand PrixCircuitWhereWinnerCarCars
1JAN 13Argentine Grand PrixAutódromo Juan y Oscar GálvezBuenos Aires, ArgentinaJuan FangioMaserati16
2MAY 19Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoMonte Carlo, MonacoJuan FangioMaserati16
3MAY 30Indianapolis 500Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayIndianapolis, USASam HanksEpperly33
4JUL 7French Grand PrixRouen-Les-EssartsRouen, FranceJuan FangioMaserati15
5JUL 20British Grand PrixAintreeLiverpool, UKTony BrooksVanwall19
6AUG 4German Grand PrixNürburgringNürburg, GermanyJuan FangioMaserati24
7AUG 18Pescara Grand PrixPescara CircuitPescara, ItalyStirling MossVanwall16
8SEP 8Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaMonza, ItalyStirling MossVanwall19

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 1957, 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 1957, not those that entered. There is no constructors’ championship for 1957: the title was first awarded in 1958, and its absence here is history rather than missing data. 1957 is complete: all 8 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.