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Motor car race
The
1959 Portuguese Grand Prix
was a
Formula One
motor race
held at
Monsanto
on 23 August 1959. It was race 7 of 9 in the
1959 World Championship of Drivers
and race 6 of 8 in the
1959 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers
. It was the eighth
Portuguese Grand Prix
and the second to be included in the World Championship of Drivers. It was the third time the race was held at Monsanto and the first for Formula One. The race was held over 62 laps of the five kilometre circuit for a total race distance of 337 kilometres.
The race was won by British driver
Stirling Moss
, his eleventh Grand Prix victory, driving a
Cooper T51
for privateer race team
Rob Walker Racing Team
. Moss finished a lap ahead of American racer
Masten Gregory
driving a similar Cooper T51 for the factory
Cooper Car Company
team. American
Scuderia Ferrari
driver
Dan Gurney
finished third in his
Ferrari Dino 246
.
Race report
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Wins in France and Germany had given
Tony Brooks
a healthy second place in the championship behind
Jack Brabham
.
Stirling Moss
improved on his poor championship position with a dominating drive, lapping the entire field.
Phil Hill
and
Graham Hill
crashed into each other on lap 6, whilst Brabham had an enormous somersaulting crash from which he emerged unscathed. Gurney was the only
Ferrari
in the top eight with
Maurice Trintignant
and
Harry Schell
rounding off the top five.
With Brabham failing to finish and Brooks finishing a distant five laps down in ninth, Moss closed the gap to just 9½ points behind Brabham and 5½ points behind Brooks in the championship race.
Classification
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Qualifying
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Race
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- Notes
- ^1
? Includes 1 point for fastest lap
Championship standings after the race
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- Drivers' Championship standings
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- Constructors' Championship standings
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- Notes
: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Only the best 5 results counted towards each Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.
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