F1/Seasons/1959/Round 3
1959 · Round 3 of 9

Dutch Grand Prix

May 31, 1959 · Circuit Park Zandvoort · Zandvoort · Netherlands
Bonnier
WINNER
Jo Bonnier · BRM · from grid 1
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+6
MOST PLACES GAINED
Phil Hill · grid 12 to P6
10 of 15
CLASSIFIED
5 retired

01/Classification

15 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Jo BonnierBRM10752:05:26.8008
2Jack BrabhamCooper-Climax2075+14.2006
3Masten GregoryCooper-Climax7+475+1:23.0004
4Innes IrelandTeam Lotus9+574+1 Lap3
5Jean BehraFerrari4-174+1 Lap2
6Phil HillFerrari12+673+2 Laps0
7Graham HillTeam Lotus5-273+2 Laps0
8Maurice TrintignantCooper-Climax11+373+2 Laps0
9Cliff AllisonFerrari15+671+4 Laps0
10Carel Godin de BeaufortPorsche14+468+7 Laps0
RStirling MossCooper-Climax362Gearbox1
RHarry SchellBRM646Gearbox0
RTony BrooksFerrari842Oil leak0
RCarroll ShelbyAston Martin1025Engine0
RRoy SalvadoriAston Martin133Engine0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 5 of 15 cars here were not classified (5 retired). Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

10 of 15 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Phil HillFerrari126+6
Cliff AllisonFerrari159+6
Innes IrelandTeam Lotus94+5
Masten GregoryCooper-Climax73+4
Carel Godin de BeaufortPorsche1410+4
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Graham HillTeam Lotus57-2
Jean BehraFerrari45-1

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 10 of the 15 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 5: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and no car here carries grid 0, the value the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1959 season

9 rounds
MAY 10 to DEC 12
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1MAY 10Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoJack BrabhamCooper-Climax16
2MAY 30Indianapolis 500Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayRodger WardWatson33
3MAY 31Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Park ZandvoortJo BonnierBRM15
4JUL 5French Grand PrixReims-GueuxTony BrooksFerrari22
5JUL 18British Grand PrixAintreeJack BrabhamCooper-Climax24
6AUG 2German Grand PrixAVUSTony BrooksFerrari15
7AUG 23Portuguese Grand PrixMonsanto Park CircuitStirling MossCooper-Climax16
8SEP 13Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaStirling MossCooper-Climax21
9DEC 12United States Grand PrixSebring International RacewayBruce McLarenCooper-Climax19

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1959 season is complete at 9 rounds.