Race · Round 7 of 9 · 23 August 1959

1959 Portuguese Grand Prix

Sir Stirling Moss won for Cooper from pole at Monsanto Park. 6 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Monsanto ParkLisbon, Portugal
Winner: Sir Stirling MossCooper
Pole: Sir Stirling Moss
Fastest lap: Sir Stirling Moss
Entries: 1610 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Stirling Moss	Cooper	T51	1	62	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Masten Gregory	Cooper	T51	3	61	Finished	6
3	Dan Gurney	Ferrari	—	6	61	Finished	4
4	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper	T51	4	60	Finished	3
5	Harry Schell	BRM	P25	9	59	Finished	2
6	Roy Salvadori	Aston Martin	DBR4	12	59	Finished	0
7	Ron Flockhart	BRM	P25	11	59	Finished	0
8	Carroll Shelby	Aston Martin	DBR4	13	58	Finished	0
9	Tony Brooks	Ferrari	—	10	57	Finished	0
10	Mário de Araújo Cabral	Cooper	T51	14	56	Finished	0
DNF	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	T51	8	38	Transmission	0
DNF	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	T51	2	23	Collision	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	BRM	P25	5	10	Engine	0
DNF	Phil Hill	Ferrari	—	7	5	Accident	0
DNF	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	16	15	5	Accident	0
DNF	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	16	16	3	Gearbox	0

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

F1DB layout monsanto-1 · 5.44 km · 9 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 Stirling Moss	1	1	62
Masten Gregory	3	2	61
Dan Gurney	6	3	61
Maurice Trintignant	4	4	60
Harry Schell	9	5	59
Roy Salvadori	12	6	59
Ron Flockhart	11	7	59
Carroll Shelby	13	8	58
Tony Brooks	10	9	57
Mário de Araújo Cabral	14	10	56
Bruce McLaren	8	DNF	38
Sir Jack Brabham	2	DNF	23
Jo Bonnier	5	DNF	10
Phil Hill	7	DNF	5
Graham Hill	15	DNF	5
Innes Ireland	16	DNF	3

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Sir Stirling Moss	Cooper	4	2:02.890	—	—
2	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	1	2:04.950	+2.060	+2.060
3	Masten Gregory	Cooper	2	2:06.330	+3.440	+1.380
4	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper	5	2:07.380	+4.490	+1.050
5	Jo Bonnier	BRM	7	2:07.860	+4.970	+0.480
6	Dan Gurney	Ferrari	16	2:07.990	+5.100	+0.130
7	Phil Hill	Ferrari	15	2:08.020	+5.130	+0.030
8	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	3	2:08.170	+5.280	+0.150
9	Harry Schell	BRM	6	2:09.080	+6.190	+0.910
10	Tony Brooks	Ferrari	14	2:10.960	+8.070	+1.880
11	Ron Flockhart	BRM	8	2:10.980	+8.090	+0.020
12	Roy Salvadori	Aston Martin	10	2:13.280	+10.390	+2.300
13	Carroll Shelby	Aston Martin	9	2:13.580	+10.690	+0.300
14	Mário de Araújo Cabral	Cooper	18	2:15.250	+12.360	+1.670
15	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	11	2:15.550	+12.660	+0.300
16	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	12	2:18.470	+15.580	+2.920

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: 7 of 1959
Grand Prix: Portuguese Grand Prix
Dates: 23 Aug 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.