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1959 / BRABHAM

A scrolling recap of 1959 in six acts. The champion, the constructor, the bump chart, and the race-by-race podiums.

ACT 1 CUMULATIVE TRAJECTORY

The points reel out, race after race.

Every line is a driver's running championship total. The heaviest three at the top are the ones who mattered. Jack Brabham closed the year on 31 points, a 4-point gap over P2.

DATA TABLE · CUMULATIVE POINTS

Cumulative points by driver and round for 1959
DRIVER	R01	R02	R03	R04	R05	R06	R07	R08	R09
Jack Brabham	9	9	15	19	27	27	27	31	31
Tony Brooks	6	6	6	14	14	23	23	23	27
Stirling Moss	0	0	1	2	9	9	18	26	26
Phil Hill	3	3	3	9	9	13	13	20	20
Maurice Trintignant	4	4	4	4	6	9	12	12	19
Bruce McLaren	2	2	2	4	9	9	9	9	17
Dan Gurney	0	0	0	0	0	6	10	13	13
Jo Bonnier	0	0	8	8	6	10	10	10	10
Masten Gregory	0	0	4	4	4	4	10	10	10
Rodger Ward	0	8	8	8	6	8	8	8	8

ACT 2 CONSTRUCTORS

Two-car teams, one trophy.

The constructors' championship is a different game — both cars score. A team can win it with consistent doubles even when neither driver leads the standings. Cooper–Climax ended on 40 points.

DATA

Constructor championship standings for 1959
POS	CONSTRUCTOR	PTS
P1	COOPER–CLIMAX	40
P2	FERRARI	32
P3	BRM	18
P4	LOTUS–CLIMAX	5

ACT 3 STANDINGS BUMP

Position by position, week to week.

Cumulative points hide where the order actually changed. The bump chart ranks every driver after each race — every crossing of lines is somebody passing somebody in the table.

DRIVER TRACES · TAP TO ISOLATE

DATA TABLE · OFFICIAL RANK BY ROUND

Official championship rank by driver and round for 1959
DRIVER	R01	R02	R03	R04	R05	R06	R07	R08	R09
Jack Brabham	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1
Tony Brooks	P2	P3	P4	P2	P2	P2	P2	P3	P2
Stirling Moss	—	—	P15	P16	P4	P6	P3	P2	P3
Phil Hill	P4	P7	P9	P3	P3	P3	P4	P4	P4
Maurice Trintignant	P3	P6	P7	P8	P9	P5	P5	P6	P5
Bruce McLaren	P5	P9	P12	P10	P5	P7	P9	P9	P6
Dan Gurney	—	—	—	—	—	P9	P7	P5	P7
Jo Bonnier	—	—	P2	P4	P6	P4	P6	P7	P8
Masten Gregory	—	—	P7	P8	P11	P12	P7	P8	P9
Rodger Ward	—	P2	P2	P4	P6	P8	P10	P10	P10
Jim Rathmann	—	P3	P4	P6	P8	P9	P11	P11	P11
Johnny Thomson	—	P5	P6	P7	P10	P11	P12	P12	P12
Harry Schell	—	—	—	—	P12	P13	P13	P13	P13
Innes Ireland	—	—	P9	P11	P12	P13	P14	P14	P13
Olivier Gendebien	—	—	—	P11	P12	P13	P14	P14	P15

ACT 4 RACE-BY-RACE

12 drivers stood on a podium.

6 different drivers won a race. Tap any chip to pin a driver's appearances across the calendar — the matching tiles light up. Empty bars mean a race where the chosen driver missed the top three.

PODIUM DRIVERS

R01 MONACO

1 BRABHAM

2 BROOKS

3 TRINTIGNANT

R02 INDIANAP

1 WARD

2 RATHMANN

3 THOMSON

R03 NETHERLA

1 BONNIER

2 BRABHAM

3 GREGORY

R04 FRANCE

1 BROOKS

2 HILL

3 BRABHAM

R05 GREAT BR

1 BRABHAM

2 MOSS

3 MCLAREN

R06 GERMANY

1 BROOKS

2 GURNEY

3 HILL

R07 PORTUGAL

1 MOSS

2 GREGORY

3 GURNEY

R08 ITALY

1 MOSS

2 HILL

3 BRABHAM

R09 UNITED S

1 MCLAREN

2 TRINTIGNANT

3 BROOKS

DATA TABLE · RACE PODIUMS

Race-by-race podium finishers for 1959
ROUND	RACE	P1	P2	P3
R01 · Grand Prix de Monaco 1959	Grand Prix de Monaco 1959	BRABHAM	BROOKS	TRINTIGNANT
R02 · 1959 Indianapolis 500	1959 Indianapolis 500	WARD	RATHMANN	THOMSON
R03 · Grote Prijs van Nederland 1959	Grote Prijs van Nederland 1959	BONNIER	BRABHAM	GREGORY
R04 · Grand Prix de France 1959	Grand Prix de France 1959	BROOKS	HILL	BRABHAM
R05 · 1959 RAC British Grand Prix	1959 RAC British Grand Prix	BRABHAM	MOSS	MCLAREN
R06 · Grosser Preis von Deutschland 1959	Grosser Preis von Deutschland 1959	BROOKS	GURNEY	HILL
R07 · Grande Prémio de Portugal 1959	Grande Prémio de Portugal 1959	MOSS	GREGORY	GURNEY
R08 · Gran Premio d'Italia 1959	Gran Premio d'Italia 1959	MOSS	HILL	BRABHAM
R09 · 1959 United States Grand Prix	1959 United States Grand Prix	MCLAREN	TRINTIGNANT	BROOKS

EPILOGUE BY THE NUMBERS

The year in five numbers.

ROUNDS

9

DRIVERS

19

WINNERS

6

PODIUM·DRIVERS

12

POINTS·SHARED

213

CHAMPION

Jack Brabham

31 PTS · 2 WINS

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