Race · Round 5 of 9 · 18 July 1959

1959 British Grand Prix

Sir Jack Brabham won for Cooper from pole at Aintree. 11 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Bruce McLaren.

Circuit: AintreeLiverpool, United Kingdom
Winner: Sir Jack BrabhamCooper
Pole: Sir Jack Brabham
Fastest lap: Sir Stirling Moss / Bruce McLaren
Entries: 3013 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	T51	1	75	Finished	8
2	Sir Stirling Moss	BRM	P25	7	75	Finished	6.5	fastest lap
3	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	T51	8	75	Finished	4.5	fastest lap
4	Harry Schell	BRM	P25	3	74	Finished	3
5	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper	T51	4	74	Finished	2
6	Roy Salvadori	Aston Martin	DBR4	2	74	Finished	0
7	Masten Gregory	Cooper	T51	5	73	Finished	0
8	Alan Stacey	Team Lotus	16	12	71	Finished	0
9	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	16	9	70	Finished	0
10	Chris Bristow	Cooper	T51	16	70	Finished	0
11	Henry Taylor	Cooper	—	21	69	Finished	0
12	Peter Ashdown	Cooper	T45	23	69	Finished	0
13	Ivor Bueb	Cooper	T51	18	69	Finished	0
DNF	Carroll Shelby	Aston Martin	DBR4	6	69	Ignition	0
DNF	Fritz d'Orey	Maserati	250F	20	57	Accident	0
DNF	Ron Flockhart	BRM	P25	11	53	Spun off	0
DNF	Jack Fairman	Cooper	T45	15	39	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	BRM	P25	10	37	Brakes	0
DNF	Ian Burgess	Cooper	T51	13	31	Transmission	0
DNF	Hans Herrmann	Cooper	T51	19	21	Gearbox	0
DNF	David Piper	Team Lotus	16	22	19	Overheating	0
DNF	Brian Naylor	JBW	59	14	18	Transmission	0
DNF	Mike Taylor	Cooper	T45	24	17	Transmission	0
DNF	Tony Brooks	Vanwall	VW 59	17	13	Ignition	0
DNQ	Bill Moss	Cooper	T51	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Mike Parkes	Fry	F2	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Trevor Taylor	Cooper	T51	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Keith Greene	Cooper	T43	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Tim Parnell	Cooper	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Dennis Taylor	Team Lotus	12	—	—	DNQ	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout aintree-1 · 4.828 km · 8 turns, F1DB’s figures
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.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sir Jack Brabham	1	1	75
Sir Stirling Moss	7	2	75
Bruce McLaren	8	3	75
Harry Schell	3	4	74
Maurice Trintignant	4	5	74
Roy Salvadori	2	6	74
Masten Gregory	5	7	73
Alan Stacey	12	8	71
Graham Hill	9	9	70
Chris Bristow	16	10	70
Henry Taylor	21	11	69
Peter Ashdown	23	12	69
Ivor Bueb	18	13	69
Carroll Shelby	6	DNF	69
Fritz d'Orey	20	DNF	57
Ron Flockhart	11	DNF	53
Jack Fairman	15	DNF	39
Jo Bonnier	10	DNF	37
Ian Burgess	13	DNF	31
Hans Herrmann	19	DNF	21
David Piper	22	DNF	19
Brian Naylor	14	DNF	18
Mike Taylor	24	DNF	17
Tony Brooks	17	DNF	13

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	12	1:58.000	—	—
2	Roy Salvadori	Aston Martin	2	1:58.000	+0.000	+0.000
3	Harry Schell	BRM	8	1:59.200	+1.200	+1.200
4	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper	18	1:59.200	+1.200	+0.000
5	Masten Gregory	Cooper	14	1:59.400	+1.400	+0.200
6	Carroll Shelby	Aston Martin	4	1:59.600	+1.600	+0.200
7	Sir Stirling Moss	BRM	6	1:59.600	+1.600	+0.000
8	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	16	1:59.600	+1.600	+0.000
9	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	28	2:00.000	+2.000	+0.400
10	Jo Bonnier	BRM	10	2:00.000	+2.000	+0.000
11	Ron Flockhart	BRM	42	2:00.200	+2.200	+0.200
12	Alan Stacey	Team Lotus	30	2:02.800	+4.800	+2.600
13	Ian Burgess	Cooper	22	2:03.000	+5.000	+0.200
14	Brian Naylor	JBW	36	2:03.000	+5.000	+0.000
15	Jack Fairman	Cooper	38	2:04.200	+6.200	+1.200
16	Chris Bristow	Cooper	48	2:04.400	+6.400	+0.200
17	Tony Brooks	Vanwall	20	2:04.600	+6.600	+0.200
18	Ivor Bueb	Cooper	46	2:04.800	+6.800	+0.200
19	Hans Herrmann	Cooper	24	2:05.600	+7.600	+0.800
20	Fritz d'Orey	Maserati	40	2:05.600	+7.600	+0.000
21	Henry Taylor	Cooper	58	2:05.600	+7.600	+0.000
22	David Piper	Team Lotus	64	2:06.000	+8.000	+0.400
23	Peter Ashdown	Cooper	52	2:06.200	+8.200	+0.200
24	Mike Taylor	Cooper	50	2:07.000	+9.000	+0.800
25	Bill Moss	Cooper	56	2:07.200	+9.200	+0.200
26	Mike Parkes	Fry	60	2:07.600	+9.600	+0.400
27	Trevor Taylor	Cooper	44	2:08.200	+10.200	+0.600
28	Keith Greene	Cooper	54	2:09.800	+11.800	+1.600
29	Tim Parnell	Cooper	66	—	—	—
30	Dennis Taylor	Team Lotus	62	—	—	—

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.

1 more photograph

Maserati 250F
Maserati 250 F, Bj. 1957 (1977-08-14) Südkehre · Spurzem - Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de

Where this comes from

Round: 5 of 1959
Grand Prix: British Grand Prix
Dates: 18 Jul 1959
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Cooper
Entrant: Cooper-Climax
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.