Karl Kling — Lap Ledger

Seasons: 1954–19552 with an entry
Entries: 11
Wins: 0
Podiums: 2
Poles: 0
Fastest laps: 1
Best finish: P2

Where each championship finished

Final championship position by season, ringed for a title. No dot: not in the final standings, or excluded. Dots are coloured for each season’s final team: the entrant’s national racing colour, not the team’s.

The numbers behind this chart

Where each championship finished
Season	Constructor	Position	Points
1954	Mercedes	5	12
1955	Mercedes	11	5

Season by season

Season by season
Season	Constructor	Entries	Wins	Podiums	Poles	FL	Best	Championship	Points scored
1955	Mercedes	5	0	1	0	0	P3	11	5
1954	Mercedes	6	0	1	0	1	P2	5	12

“Points scored” adds up every point from the races. The championship column is where the season actually finished, which before 1991 could be lower once dropped scores were applied. Open a season for its full table.

Team-mates

Team-mates
Season	Team-mate	Constructor	Races	Qualifying	Race	Points
1955	Juan Manuel Fangio	Mercedes	5	0–5	0–2	5–40
1955	Sir Stirling Moss	Mercedes	5	1–4	0–1	5–23
1955	Piero Taruffi	Mercedes	2	2–0	1–0	4–9
1955	Hans Herrmann	Mercedes	1	1–0	0–0	1–1
1954	Juan Manuel Fangio	Mercedes	6	0–6	0–4	12–40.14
1954	Hans Herrmann	Mercedes	5	3–2	none	12–8
1954	Hermann Lang	Mercedes	1	0–1	none	4–0

A team-mate is anyone entered for the same constructor in the same Grand Prix, and each pair of figures is Karl Kling’s first. Races counts every Grand Prix both were entered for, started or not. Qualifying counts the races both have a qualifying position in; Race only those both were classified in, so a retirement on either side counts for neither, and reads none where there was no such race; Points are each driver’s own from those Grands Prix, before any dropped scores and without Sprint points. Before the 1980s a constructor’s cars were often entered by private teams as well as its own, so a pairing then can be two drivers who never shared a garage. The figures say who was ahead, not who was better.

Compare Karl Kling with any other driver

Every entry 11 entries

Every entry
Season	Grand Prix	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Result	Out	Laps	Points
1955	Italian Grand Prix	Mercedes	W196	3	DNF	Gearbox	32	0
1955	British Grand Prix	Mercedes	W196	4	3	Finished	90	4
1955	Dutch Grand Prix	Mercedes	W196	3	DNF	Spun off	21	0
1955	Belgian Grand Prix	Mercedes	W196	6	DNF	Oil leak	21	0
1955	Argentine Grand Prix	Mercedes	W196	6	4	Accident	2	1
1954	Spanish Grand Prix	Mercedes	W196	12	5	Finished	79	2
1954	Italian Grand Prix	Mercedes	W196	4	DNF	Accident	36	0
1954	Swiss Grand Prix	Mercedes	W196	5	DNF	Fuel system	38	0
1954	German Grand Prix	Mercedes	W196	23	4	Finished	22	4
1954	British Grand Prix	Mercedes	W196	6	7	Finished	87	0
1954	French Grand Prix	Mercedes	W196	2	2	Finished	61	6

Where this comes from

Born: —
Died: —
Nationality: Germany
Status: —
Provenance: Added to the register from the pole position and fastest lap harvest. Never won a World Championship Grand Prix. Pole and fastest-lap counts are derived from the race records; other career figures are not held.
Wins: 0 derived · 0 published
Poles: 0 derived
Fastest laps: 1 derived
External source: F1DB career totals, v2026.18.0
Confidence: medium
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_polesitters

Entries is counted here from the race records, one for every race a driver was entered for, and wins, podiums and poles are counted the same way and checked against the published totals on every build. Starts is counted from those records too: an entry is a start unless the result the source printed says it never was - did not qualify, pre-qualify, start or practise, or excluded before the start - so a pit-lane start counts and so does a retirement on the first lap. The published entry and start figures are a separate count kept for the few drivers who have one, reached by rules this database does not hold. Where a published figure and the counted one disagree, both are shown and neither is corrected.