1991

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Ayrton Senna	Brazilian	McLaren	96	7
2	Nigel Mansell	British	Williams	72	5
3	Riccardo Patrese	Italian	Williams	53	2
4	Gerhard Berger	Austrian	McLaren	43	1
5	Alain Prost	French	Ferrari	34	0
6	Nelson Piquet	Brazilian	Benetton	26.5	1
7	Jean Alesi	French	Ferrari	21	0
8	SMStefano Modena	Italian	Tyrrell	10	0
9	Andrea de Cesaris	Italian	Jordan	9	0
10	RMRoberto Moreno	Brazilian	Benetton / Jordan / Minardi	8	0
11	PMPierluigi Martini	Italian	Minardi	6	0
12	JJJyrki Järvilehto	Finnish	Dallara	4	0
13	Bertrand Gachot	Belgian	Jordan	4	0
14	Michael SchumacherMSC	German	Benetton / Jordan	4	0
15	Satoru Nakajima	Japanese	Tyrrell	2	0
16	Mika Häkkinen	Finnish	Team Lotus	2	0
17	Martin Brundle	British	Brabham	2	0
18	Emanuele Pirro	Italian	Dallara	1	0
19	Mark Blundell	British	Brabham	1	0
20	Ivan Capelli	Italian	Leyton House	1	0
21	ÉBÉric Bernard	French	Larrousse / Lola	1	0
22	Aguri Suzuki	Japanese	Larrousse / Lola	1	0
23	JBJulian Bailey	British	Team Lotus	1	0
24	Gianni Morbidelli	Italian	Ferrari / Minardi	0.5	0
—	Michele Alboreto	Italian	Footwork	0	0
—	Thierry Boutsen	Belgian	Ligier	0	0
—	ACAlex Caffi	Italian	Footwork	0	0
—	Érik Comas	French	Ligier	0	0
—	Olivier Grouillard	French	Fondmetal	0	0
—	Maurício Gugelmin	Brazilian	Leyton House	0	0
—	Johnny Herbert	British	Team Lotus	0	0
—	Stefan Johansson	Swedish	Footwork	0	0
—	Nicola Larini	Italian	Lambo	0	0
—	Gabriele Tarquini	Italian	AGS / Fondmetal	0	0
—	Karl Wendlinger	Austrian	Leyton House	0	0
—	Alessandro Zanardi	Italian	Jordan	0	0
—	Eric van de Poele	Belgian	Lambo	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 13 of 37 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points. 2 of 37 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 16, 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 1991, 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 1991, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1991 is complete: all 16 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.