1953 F1 driver standings

Season

Standings

Pos	Driver	ARG	500	NLD	BEL	FRA	GBR	DEU	CHE	ITA	Points
1	Alberto Ascari	1		1	1	4	1	8/R	1	R	34.5 (46.5)
2	Juan Manuel Fangio	R		R	R/R	2	2	2	4/R	1	28 (29.5)
3	Giuseppe Farina	R		2	R	5	3	1	2	2	26 (32)
4	Mike Hawthorn	4		4	6	1	5	3	3	4	19 (27)
5	Luigi Villoresi	2		R	2	6	R	8/R	6	3	17
6	Jose Froilan Gonzalez	3		3/R	R	3	4				13.5 (14.5)
7	Bill Vukovich		1								9
8	Emmanuel de Graffenried			5	4	7	R	5	R	R	7
9	Felice Bonetto	R		3		R	6	4	4/R	R	6.5
10	Art Cross		2								6
11	Onofre Marimon				3	9	R	R	R	R	4
=	Maurice Trintignant	7		6	5	R	R	R	R	5	4
13	Oscar Galvez	5									2
=	Sam Hanks		3								2
=	Duane Carter		3/R								2
=	Jack McGrath		5								2
=	Hermann Lang								5		2
18	Fred Agabashian		4								1.5
=	Paul Russo		4/R								1.5
	Stirling Moss			9		R		6		13
	Jean Behra	6			R	10	R	R	R
	Roberto Mieres			R		R				6
	Jimmy Daywalt		6
	Harry Schell	7		R	7	R	R	R		9
	Louis Rosier			7	8	8	10	10	R	16
	Ken Wharton			R		R	8		7	NC
	Birabongse Bhanudej					R	7	R		11
	Jacques Swaters				DNS			7	R
	Jim Rathmann		7/15
	Eddie Johnson		7
	Sergio Mantovani									7
	Luigi Musso									7
	Peter Collins			8	R	13	R
	John Barber	8
	Ernie McCoy		8
	Max de Terra								8
	Umberto Maglioli									8
	Alan Brown	9					R	R		12
	Fred Wacker			DNS	9				DNS
	Tony Bettenhausen		9^R
	Chuck Stevenson		9^R/23^R/29^R
	Peter Whitehead						9
	Hans Herrmann							9
	Albert Scherrer								9
	Louis Chiron					15	DNS		DNS	10
	Paul Frere				10				R
	Jimmy Davies		10
	Bob Gerard					11	R
	Duke Nalon		11^R
	Andre Pilette				11
	Rodney Nuckey							11
	Johnny Claes			NC	R	12		R		R
	Carl Scarborough		12
	Bob Scott		12^R/31^R
	Theo Helfrich							12
	Ken McAlpine			R			R	13		NC
	Manuel Ayulo		13^R
	Yves Giraud-Cabantous					14				15
	Hans Stuck							R		14
	Jimmy Bryan		14
	Rudolf Krause							14
	Bill Holland		15^R
	Ernst Klodwig							15
	Rodger Ward		16^R
	Andy Linden		16^R/23^R/33^R
	Duke Dinsmore		16^R
	Wolfgang Seidel							16
	Walt Faulkner		17
	Johnny Mantz		17^R
	Marshall Teague		18^R
	Spider Webb		19^R
	Johnny Thomson		19^R/32^R
	Jackie Holmes		19^R
	Bob Sweikert		20^R
	Mike Nazaruk		21^R
	Pat Flaherty		22^R
	Jerry Hoyt		23^R
	Johnnie Parsons		26^R
	Don Freeland		27^R
	Gene Hartley		28^R
	Cal Niday		30^R
	Lance Macklin			R	R	R	R		R	R
	Roy Salvadori			R		R	R	R		R
	Elie Bayol					R			DNS	R
	Chico Landi								R	R
	Jack Fairman						R			NC
	Robert Manzon	R
	Carlos Menditeguy	R
	Pablo Birger	R
	Adolfo Schwelm-Cruz	R
	Georges Berger				R
	Arthur Legat				R
	Jimmy Stewart						R
	Tony Rolt						R
	Ian Stewart						R
	Duncan Hamilton						R
	Tony Crook						R
	Edgar Barth							R
	Oswald Karch							R
	Willi Heeks							R
	Theo Fitzau							R
	Kurt Adolff							R
	Gunther Bechem							R
	Ernst Loof							R
	Erwin Bauer							R
	Peter Hirt								R
	Piero Carini									R
	John Fitch									R
	Charles de Tornaco				DNS
	Helm Glockler							DNS
No.	Driver	ARG	500	NLD	BEL	FRA	GBR	DEU	CHE	ITA	Points

Table key

Highlight: Rookie
Bold: pole position
Underline: fastest lap
Bold & underline: pole & fastest lap
NC: Not classified
DNS: Did not start

Points system and championship rules

The top five classified finishers of each race were awarded points on the following basis:

1st (8)
2nd (6)
3rd (4)
4th (3)
5th (2)
fastest lap (1)

A point was awarded for setting the fastest lap. In the event of more than one driver setting the fastest lap points were shared.

Only the best four results counted towards the championship.

Numbers shown without parentheses are the points scored that counted towards the championship; numbers in parentheses are the total number of points scored.

Race to the title

The Race to the title graph shows how the title race played out over the course of the season between the top five drivers of 1953.

Standings

Table key

Points system and championship rules

Race to the title

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Season

Wins, poles & fastest laps

Qualifying

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