Race · Round 6 of 9 · 2 August 1959

1959 German Grand Prix

Tony Brooks won for Ferrari from pole at AVUS. 8 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Dan Gurney.

Circuit: AVUSBerlin, Germany
Winner: Tony BrooksFerrari
Pole: Tony Brooks
Fastest qualifier: Cliff Allisonstarted 14
Fastest lap: Tony Brooks
Entries: 177 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Tony Brooks	Ferrari	—	1	60	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Dan Gurney	Ferrari	—	3	60	Finished	6
3	Phil Hill	Ferrari	—	6	60	Finished	4
4	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper	T51	12	59	Finished	3
5	Jo Bonnier	BRM	P25	7	58	Finished	2
6	Ian Burgess	Cooper	T51	15	56	Finished	0
7	Harry Schell	BRM	P25	8	49	Finished	0
DNF	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	T51	9	37	Transmission	0
DNF	Hans Herrmann	BRM	P25	11	35	Accident	0
DNF	Masten Gregory	Cooper	T51	5	23	Engine	0
DNF	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	T51	4	15	Transmission	0
DNF	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	16	10	10	Gearbox	0
DNF	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	16	13	7	Differential	0
DNF	Cliff Allison	Ferrari	—	14	2	Clutch	0
DNF	Sir Stirling Moss	Cooper	T51	2	1	Transmission	0
DNS	Jean Behra	Behra-Porsche	RSK	—	—	Fatal accident in support race	0
DNS	Wolfgang von Trips	Porsche	718	—	—	Withdrew	0

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

F1DB layout avus-1 · 8.3 km · 4 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
Tony Brooks	1	1	60
Dan Gurney	3	2	60
Phil Hill	6	3	60
Maurice Trintignant	12	4	59
Jo Bonnier	7	5	58
Ian Burgess	15	6	56
Harry Schell	8	7	49
Bruce McLaren	9	DNF	37
Hans Herrmann	11	DNF	35
Masten Gregory	5	DNF	23
Sir Jack Brabham	4	DNF	15
Graham Hill	10	DNF	10
Innes Ireland	13	DNF	7
Cliff Allison	14	DNF	2
Sir Stirling Moss	2	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Cliff Allison	Ferrari	17	2:05.800	—	—
2	Tony Brooks	Ferrari	4	2:05.900	+0.100	+0.100
3	Sir Stirling Moss	Cooper	7	2:06.800	+1.000	+0.900
4	Dan Gurney	Ferrari	6	2:07.200	+1.400	+0.400
5	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	1	2:07.400	+1.600	+0.200
6	Masten Gregory	Cooper	3	2:07.500	+1.700	+0.100
7	Phil Hill	Ferrari	5	2:07.600	+1.800	+0.100
8	Jo Bonnier	BRM	9	2:10.300	+4.500	+2.700
9	Harry Schell	BRM	10	2:10.300	+4.500	+0.000
10	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	2	2:10.400	+4.600	+0.100
11	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	16	2:10.800	+5.000	+0.400
12	Hans Herrmann	BRM	11	2:11.400	+5.600	+0.600
13	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper	8	2:12.700	+6.900	+1.300
14	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	15	2:14.600	+8.800	+1.900
15	Ian Burgess	Cooper	18	2:18.900	+13.100	+4.300

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.

Where this comes from

Round: 6 of 1959
Grand Prix: German Grand Prix
Dates: 2 Aug 1959
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.