Race · Round 4 of 9 ·
1959 French Grand Prix
Tony Brooks won for Ferrari from pole at Reims-Gueux. 10 of the starters were not classified.
- Circuit
- Reims-GueuxGueux, France
- Winner
- Tony BrooksFerrari
- Pole
- Tony Brooks
- Fastest lap
- Sir Stirling Moss
- Entries
- 2211 classified
Classification
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Chassis | Grid | Laps | Out | Points | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tony Brooks | Ferrari | — | 1 | 50 | Finished | 8 | |
| 2 | Phil Hill | Ferrari | — | 3 | 50 | Finished | 6 | |
| 3 | Sir Jack Brabham | Cooper | T51 | 2 | 50 | Finished | 4 | |
| 4 | Olivier Gendebien | Ferrari | — | 11 | 50 | Finished | 3 | |
| 5 | Bruce McLaren | Cooper | T51 | 10 | 50 | Finished | 2 | |
| 6 | Ron Flockhart | BRM | P25 | 13 | 50 | Finished | 0 | |
| 7 | Harry Schell | BRM | P25 | 9 | 47 | Finished | 0 | |
| 8 | Giorgio Scarlatti | Maserati | 250F | 21 | 41 | Finished | 0 | |
| 9 | Carel Godin de Beaufort | Maserati | 250F | 20 | 40 | Finished | 0 | |
| 10 | Fritz d'Orey | Maserati | 250F | 18 | 40 | Finished | 0 | |
| 11 | Maurice Trintignant | Cooper | T51 | 8 | 36 | Finished | 0 | |
| DSQ | Sir Stirling Moss | BRM | P25 | 4 | 42 | Push start | 1 | fastest lap |
| DNF | Jean Behra | Ferrari | — | 5 | 31 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Roy Salvadori | Cooper | T45 | 16 | 20 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Dan Gurney | Ferrari | — | 12 | 19 | Radiator | 0 | |
| DNF | Innes Ireland | Team Lotus | 16 | 15 | 14 | Wheel | 0 | |
| DNF | Ian Burgess | Cooper | T51 | 19 | 13 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Masten Gregory | Cooper | T51 | 7 | 8 | Physical | 0 | |
| DNF | Graham Hill | Team Lotus | 16 | 14 | 7 | Radiator | 0 | |
| DNF | Colin Davis | Cooper | T51 | 17 | 7 | Oil leak | 0 | |
| DNF | Jo Bonnier | BRM | P25 | 6 | 6 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNS | Asdrúbal Fontes Bayardo | Maserati | 250F | — | — | DNS | 0 |
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.
Grid to flag
Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Time | Gap | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tony Brooks | Ferrari | 24 | 2:19.400 | — | — |
| 2 | Sir Jack Brabham | Cooper | 8 | 2:19.700 | +0.300 | +0.300 |
| 3 | Phil Hill | Ferrari | 26 | 2:19.800 | +0.400 | +0.100 |
| 4 | Sir Stirling Moss | BRM | 2 | 2:19.900 | +0.500 | +0.100 |
| 5 | Jean Behra | Ferrari | 30 | 2:20.200 | +0.800 | +0.300 |
| 6 | Jo Bonnier | BRM | 4 | 2:20.600 | +1.200 | +0.400 |
| 7 | Masten Gregory | Cooper | 10 | 2:20.800 | +1.400 | +0.200 |
| 8 | Maurice Trintignant | Cooper | 14 | 2:21.300 | +1.900 | +0.500 |
| 9 | Harry Schell | BRM | 6 | 2:21.500 | +2.100 | +0.200 |
| 10 | Bruce McLaren | Cooper | 12 | 2:21.500 | +2.100 | +0.000 |
| 11 | Olivier Gendebien | Ferrari | 22 | 2:21.500 | +2.100 | +0.000 |
| 12 | Dan Gurney | Ferrari | 28 | 2:21.900 | +2.500 | +0.400 |
| 13 | Ron Flockhart | BRM | 44 | 2:23.400 | +4.000 | +1.500 |
| 14 | Graham Hill | Team Lotus | 32 | 2:23.700 | +4.300 | +0.300 |
| 15 | Innes Ireland | Team Lotus | 34 | 2:24.200 | +4.800 | +0.500 |
| 16 | Roy Salvadori | Cooper | 16 | 2:26.400 | +7.000 | +2.200 |
| 17 | Colin Davis | Cooper | 20 | 2:32.300 | +12.900 | +5.900 |
| 18 | Fritz d'Orey | Maserati | 38 | 2:34.000 | +14.600 | +1.700 |
| 19 | Ian Burgess | Cooper | 18 | 2:35.200 | +15.800 | +1.200 |
| 20 | Carel Godin de Beaufort | Maserati | 42 | 2:35.400 | +16.000 | +0.200 |
| 21 | Giorgio Scarlatti | Maserati | 40 | 2:35.600 | +16.200 | +0.200 |
Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.
Pit stops
Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.
The cars in this race
The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.
Cooper T51
Cooper T51 Rob Walker Donington · John Chapman ( Pyrope ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
BRM P25
BRM P25 at Silverstone Classic 2011 · David Merrett from Daventry, England · CC BY 2.0
Maserati 250F
Maserati 250 F, Bj. 1957 (1977-08-14) Südkehre · Spurzem - Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de
Cooper T45
Cooper T45 Rob WalkerDonington pits · John Chapman ( Pyrope ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lotus 16
Lotus 16 · Pyrope · CC BY-SA 3.0Where this comes from
- Round
- 4 of 1959
- Grand Prix
- French Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- —
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- Ferrari
- Entrant
- Ferrari
- Confidence
- reference
No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.