1959

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Jack Brabham	Australian	Cooper-Climax	31	2
2	TBTony Brooks	British	Ferrari / Vanwall	27	2
3	SMStirling Moss	British	BRM / Cooper-Climax	25.5	2
4	Phil Hill	American	Ferrari	20	0
5	MTMaurice Trintignant	French	Cooper-Climax	19	0
6	Bruce McLaren	New Zealander	Cooper-Climax	16.5	1
7	Dan Gurney	American	Ferrari	13	0
8	JBJo Bonnier	Swedish	BRM	10	1
9	Masten Gregory	American	Cooper-Climax	10	0
10	Rodger Ward	American	Kurtis Kraft / Watson	8	1
11	JRJim Rathmann	American	Watson	6	0
12	JTJohnny Thomson	American	Lesovsky	5	0
13	HSHarry Schell	American	BRM / Cooper-Climax	5	0
14	Innes Ireland	British	Team Lotus	5	0
15	Olivier Gendebien	Belgian	Ferrari	3	0
16	Tony Bettenhausen	American	Epperly	3	0
17	CACliff Allison	British	Ferrari	2	0
18	Jean Behra	French	Ferrari	2	0
19	PGPaul Goldsmith	American	Epperly	2	0
—	RARed Amick	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	CAChuck Arnold	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	PAPeter Ashdown	British	Cooper-Climax	0	0
—	HBHarry Blanchard	American	Porsche	0	0
—	JBJohnny Boyd	American	Epperly	0	0
—	DBDon Branson	American	Phillips	0	0
—	CBChris Bristow	British	Cooper-Borgward	0	0
—	JBJimmy Bryan	American	Epperly	0	0
—	IBIvor Bueb	British	Cooper-Borgward	0	0
—	IBIan Burgess	British	Cooper-Maserati	0	0
—	GCGiulio Cabianca	Italian	Maserati	0	0
—	MCMário de Araújo Cabral	Portuguese	Cooper-Maserati	0	0
—	PCPhil Cade	American	Maserati	0	0
—	DCDuane Carter	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	BCBill Cheesbourg	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	BCBob Christie	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	GCGeorge Constantine	American	Cooper-Borgward	0	0
—	RCRay Crawford	American	Elder	0	0
—	CDColin Davis	British	Cooper-Maserati	0	0
—	JDJimmy Daywalt	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	JFJack Fairman	British	Cooper-Climax / Cooper-Maserati	0	0
—	PFPat Flaherty	American	Watson	0	0
—	RFRon Flockhart	British	BRM	0	0
—	AFAzdrubal Fontes	Uruguayan	Maserati	0	0
—	AFAnthony Foyt	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	DFDon Freeland	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	BGBobby Grim	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	BHBruce Halford	British	Team Lotus	0	0
—	GHGene Hartley	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	AHAl Herman	American	Dunn	0	0
—	Hans Herrmann	German	BRM / Cooper-Maserati	0	0
—	Graham Hill	British	Team Lotus	0	0
—	EJEddie Johnson	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	AKAl Keller	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	JLJud Larson	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	MMMike Magill	American	Sutton	0	0
—	JMJim McWithey	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	BNBrian Naylor	British	JBW	0	0
—	DPDavid Piper	British	Team Lotus	0	0
—	Dick Rathmann	American	Watson	0	0
—	Paul Russo	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	Eddie Sachs	American	Kuzma	0	0
—	Bob Said	American	Connaught	0	0
—	Roy Salvadori	British	Aston Martin / Cooper-Maserati	0	0
—	GSGiorgio Scarlatti	Italian	Cooper-Climax / Maserati	0	0
—	Carroll Shelby	American	Aston Martin	0	0
—	Alan Stacey	British	Team Lotus	0	0
—	LSLen Sutton	American	Lesovsky	0	0
—	MTMike Taylor	British	Cooper-Climax	0	0
—	HTHenry Taylor	British	Cooper-Climax	0	0
—	JTJack Turner	American	Christensen	0	0
—	BVBob Veith	American	Moore	0	0
—	CWChuck Weyant	American	Kurtis Kraft	0	0
—	FDFritz d'Orey	Brazilian	Maserati / Tec-Mec	0	0
—	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Dutch	Maserati / Porsche	0	0
—	ATAlessandro de Tomaso	Argentine	Cooper-OSCA	0	0
—	WTWolfgang von Trips	German	Ferrari / Porsche	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 57 of 76 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points. 2 of 76 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.

Read from the season’s final constructor standings row. A constructor scores through both of its cars, so these totals are not the sum of any one driver’s line above.

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 1959, 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 1959, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1959 is complete: all 9 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.