The 1959 United States Grand Prix was Round 9 of the 1959 Formula 1 World Championship. The event was held at Sebring in Florida, USA on Sunday, 12 December 1959. Stirling Moss started on pole position in a Cooper Climax and Bruce McLaren was the race winner in the Cooper Climax.
During an interview with Beyond The Grid – The F1® Podcast released on 28 August 2019, Tony Brooks reminisced about the incident with team-mate Wolfgang von Trips in this race that almost certainly cost him the 1959 drivers’ title.
1959 United States Grand Prix Race Results
Pos. | No. | Driver | Nationality | Team | Tyre | Laps | Time/Retired | Time | Gap | Interval | Best Lap | Lap | Points |
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1 | 9 | Bruce McLaren | New Zealand | Cooper Climax | Dunlop | 42 | 2:12:35.700 | 2:12:35.700 | - | - | 8 | ||
2 | 6 | Maurice Trintignant | France | Cooper Climax | Dunlop | 42 | +0.600 | 2:12:36.300 | +0.600 | +0.600 | 3:05.000 | 39 | 7 |
3 | 2 | Tony Brooks | Great Britain | Ferrari | Dunlop | 42 | +180.900 | 2:15:36.600 | +3:00.900 | +3:00.300 | 4 | ||
4 | 8 | Jack Brabham | Australia | Cooper Climax | Dunlop | 42 | +297.300 | 2:17:33.000 | +4:57.300 | +1:56.400 | 3 | ||
5 | 10 | Innes Ireland | Great Britain | Lotus Climax | 39 | +3 laps | 3 laps | 3 laps | 2 | ||||
6 | 4 | Wolfgang von Trips | Germany | Ferrari | Dunlop | 38 | +4 laps | 4 laps | 1 lap | ||||
7 | 17 | Harry Blanchard | United States | Porsche | 38 | +4 laps | 4 laps | ||||||
DNF | 3 | Cliff Allison | Great Britain | Ferrari | Dunlop | 23 | DNF | ||||||
DNF | 12 | Roy Salvadori | Great Britain | Cooper Maserati | 23 | DNF | |||||||
DNF | 1 | Rodger Ward | United States | Kurtis Kraft Offenhauser | 20 | DNF | |||||||
DNF | 14 | Alessandro de Tomaso | Argentina | Cooper Osca | 13 | DNF | |||||||
DNF | 5 | Phil Hill | United States | Ferrari | Dunlop | 8 | DNF | ||||||
DNF | 15 | Fritz d'Orey | Brazil | Tec-Mec Maserati | 6 | DNF | |||||||
DNF | 7 | Stirling Moss | Great Britain | Cooper Climax | Dunlop | 5 | DNF | ||||||
DNF | 19 | Harry Schell | United States | Cooper Climax | 5 | DNF | |||||||
DNF | 16 | George Constantine | United States | Cooper Climax | 5 | DNF | |||||||
DNF | 11 | Alan Stacey | Great Britain | Lotus Climax | 2 | DNF | |||||||
DNF | 18 | Bob Said | United States | Connaught Alta | DNF | ||||||||
DNS | 22 | Phil Cade | United States | Maserati | DNS |