1965

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Jim Clark	British	Lotus-Climax	54	6
2	Graham Hill	British	BRM	40	2
3	Jackie Stewart	British	BRM	33	1
4	Dan Gurney	American	Brabham-Climax	25	0
5	John Surtees	British	Ferrari	17	0
6	Lorenzo Bandini	Italian	Ferrari	13	0
7	Richie Ginther	American	Honda	11	1
8	Mike Spence	British	Lotus-Climax	10	0
9	Bruce McLaren	New Zealander	Cooper-Climax	10	0
10	Jack Brabham	Australian	Brabham-Climax	9	0
11	Denny Hulme	New Zealander	Brabham-Climax	5	0
12	JSJo Siffert	Swiss	Brabham-BRM	5	0
13	Jochen Rindt	Austrian	Cooper-Climax	4	0
14	Pedro Rodríguez	Mexican	Ferrari	2	0
15	RBRonnie Bucknum	American	Honda	2	0
16	Richard Attwood	British	Lotus-BRM	2	0
—	Chris Amon	New Zealander	Lotus-BRM	0	0
—	BABob Anderson	British	Brabham-Climax	0	0
—	GBGiancarlo Baghetti	Italian	Brabham-Climax	0	0
—	GBGiorgio Bassi	Italian	BRM	0	0
—	Lucien Bianchi	Belgian	BRM	0	0
—	ABAlex Blignaut	South African	Cooper-Climax	0	0
—	Bob Bondurant	American	Ferrari / Lotus-BRM	0	0
—	JBJo Bonnier	Swedish	Brabham-Climax	0	0
—	RBRoberto Bussinello	Italian	BRM	0	0
—	DCDavid Clapham	South African	Cooper-Maserati	0	0
—	FGFrank Gardner	Australian	Brabham-BRM	0	0
—	Masten Gregory	American	BRM	0	0
—	Mike Hailwood	British	Lotus-BRM	0	0
—	PHPaul Hawkins	Australian	Brabham-Ford / Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	Innes Ireland	British	Lotus-BRM	0	0
—	JLJohn Love	Rhodesian	Cooper-Climax	0	0
—	TMTony Maggs	South African	Lotus-BRM	0	0
—	GMGerhard Mitter	German	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	DPDavid Prophet	British	Brabham-Ford	0	0
—	IRIan Raby	British	Brabham-BRM	0	0
—	RRRay Reed	South African	RE	0	0
—	JRJohn Rhodes	British	Cooper-Climax	0	0
—	GRGiacomo Russo	Italian	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	Ludovico Scarfiotti	Italian	Ferrari	0	0
—	MSMoisés Solana	Mexican	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	STSam Tingle	Rhodesian	LDS-Alfa Romeo	0	0
—	Nino Vaccarella	Italian	Ferrari	0	0
—	PKPeter de Klerk	South African	Alfa Romeo	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 28 of 44 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

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 10, 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 1965, 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 1965, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1965 is complete: all 10 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.