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Home / Seasons / 1959 F1 World Championship Season / 1959 Monaco Grand Prix

1959 Monaco Grand Prix

DateSunday, 10 May 1959
Winner
  • Australia flag lazyload Jack Brabham
  • United Kingdom flag lazyload Cooper-Climax
Pole position
  • United Kingdom flag lazyload Stirling Moss
  • United Kingdom flag lazyload Cooper-Climax
Fastest lap
  • Australia flag lazyload Jack Brabham
  • United Kingdom flag lazyload Cooper-Climax
CircuitMonte Carlo, 100 laps
Round1 of 9
Race numbers

The 1959 Monaco Grand Prix was the

  • 76th World Championship race
  • 6th World Championship Monaco Grand Prix
  • 6th World Championship race at Monte Carlo
More 1959 season
More Monaco Grands Prix
Previous race1958 Moroccan Grand Prix

Race result

PosDriverConstructorLapsTimePoints
1+2Australia flag lazyload Jack BrabhamCooper-Climax1002hr 55m 51.300s9 FL
2+2United Kingdom flag lazyload Tony BrooksFerrari100+20.400s6
3+3France flag lazyload Maurice TrintignantCooper-Climax (privateer)98+2 laps4
4+1USA flag lazyload Phil HillFerrari97+3 laps3
5+8New Zealand flag lazyload Bruce McLarenCooper-Climax96+4 laps2
6+2United Kingdom flag lazyload Roy SalvadoriCooper-Maserati (privateer)83DNF 
R United Kingdom flag lazyload Stirling MossCooper-Climax (privateer)81DNF 
R United Kingdom flag lazyload Ron FlockhartBRM64DNF 
R USA flag lazyload Harry SchellBRM48DNF 
R Sweden flag lazyload Jo BonnierBRM44DNF 
R France flag lazyload Jean BehraFerrari24DNF 
R United Kingdom flag lazyload Graham HillLotus-Climax21DNF 
R USA flag lazyload Masten GregoryCooper-Climax6DNF 
R United Kingdom flag lazyload Bruce HalfordLotus-Climax (privateer)1DNF 
R United Kingdom flag lazyload Cliff AllisonFerrari1DNF 
R Germany flag lazyload Wolfgang von TripsPorsche1DNF 

Notes

  • Stirling Moss ended lap 81 as the race leader before retiring.

Starting grid

Pole time: 1:39.600

PosDriverConstructor
1United Kingdom flag lazyload Stirling MossCooper-Climax (privateer)
2France flag lazyload Jean BehraFerrari
3Australia flag lazyload Jack BrabhamCooper-Climax
4United Kingdom flag lazyload Tony BrooksFerrari
5USA flag lazyload Phil HillFerrari
6France flag lazyload Maurice TrintignantCooper-Climax (privateer)
7Sweden flag lazyload Jo BonnierBRM
8United Kingdom flag lazyload Roy SalvadoriCooper-Maserati (privateer)
9USA flag lazyload Harry SchellBRM
10United Kingdom flag lazyload Ron FlockhartBRM
11USA flag lazyload Masten GregoryCooper-Climax
12Germany flag lazyload Wolfgang von TripsPorsche
13New Zealand flag lazyload Bruce McLarenCooper-Climax
14United Kingdom flag lazyload Graham HillLotus-Climax
15United Kingdom flag lazyload Cliff AllisonFerrari
16United Kingdom flag lazyload Bruce HalfordLotus-Climax (privateer)

Non-qualifiers

DriverConstructor
United Kingdom flag lazyload Ivor BuebCooper-Climax (privateer)
Italy flag lazyload Giorgio ScarlattiMaserati (privateer)
Belgium flag lazyload Lucien BianchiCooper-Climax (privateer)
Belgium flag lazyload Alain de ChangyCooper-Climax (privateer)
Italy flag lazyload Maria Teresa de FilippisBehra-Porsche
USA flag lazyload Pete LovelyLotus-Climax
France flag lazyload Jean LucienbonnetCooper-Climax (privateer)
Monaco flag lazyload Andre TestutMaserati (privateer)

Championship standings

How the championship standings stood post-1959 Monaco Grand Prix.

Driver

PosDriverPoints
1Australia flag lazyload Jack Brabham9
2United Kingdom flag lazyload Tony Brooks6
3France flag lazyload Maurice Trintignant4
4USA flag lazyload Phil Hill3
5New Zealand flag lazyload Bruce McLaren2

Constructor

PosConstructorPoints
1United Kingdom flag lazyload Cooper-Climax8
2Italy flag lazyload Ferrari6

Statistics & milestones

Race debut
Bruce McLaren (first New Zealander driver to start a race)
Milestone race start
50th for Jean Behra (3rd driver to start 50 races, 2nd French driver)
Wins
1st for Jack Brabham (21st different winner, 1st Australian driver)
3rd for Cooper
Podiums
8th for Maurice Trintignant, 6th for Tony Brooks (first for Ferrari), 1st for Jack Brabham (61st different podium finisher, 1st Australian driver)
97th for Ferrari, 7th & 8th for Cooper
Poles
8th for Stirling Moss (first for Cooper)
1st for Cooper (10th different polesitter)
Fastest laps
1st for Jack Brabham (24th different fastest lap setter, 1st Australian driver)
1st for Cooper (10th different fastest lap setter)
Front row starts
26th for Stirling Moss (first for Cooper), 10th and last for Jean Behra (7th driver to achieve ten front row starts, 1st French driver; last French front row starter until 1968; only front row start for Ferrari), 2nd for Jack Brabham
Points finishes
1st for Bruce McLaren (98th different point scorer, 1st New Zealander driver)
Win & fastest lap
1st for Jack Brabham (11th different driver to win and set the fastest lap, 1st Australian driver)

See also

  • Monaco Grand Prix
  • Monte Carlo circuit
  • 1959 World Championship season

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