1951 Formula One season

The **1951 Formula One season** was the second edition of the championship. The champion was Juan Manuel Fangio in a close battle.

## Season review

|Rnd|Race|Date|Location|Winning driver|Constructor|Tyres|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Swiss Grand Prix|May 27|Bremgarten|Juan Manuel Fangio|Alfa Romeo|||
|Indianapolis 500|May 30|Indianapolis|Lee Wallard|Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser|||
|Belgian Grand Prix|June 17|Spa-Francorchamps|Giuseppe Farina|Alfa Romeo|||
|French Grand Prix|July 1|Reims|Juan Manuel Fangio|Alfa Romeo|||
|British Grand Prix|July 14|Silverstone|José Froilán González|Ferrari|||
|German Grand Prix|July 29|Nürburgring|Alberto Ascari|Ferrari|||
|Italian Grand Prix|September 16|Monza|Alberto Ascari|Ferrari|||
|Spanish Grand Prix|October 28|Pedralbes|Juan Manuel Fangio|Alfa Romeo|||

## 1951 Drivers Championship final standings

|valign="middle"|Pos.|valign="middle"|Driver|SUI|500|BEL|FRA|GBR|GER|ITA|ESP|valign="middle"|Pts.|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 85%"||||||||||||||||||
|Juan Manuel Fangio|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9*|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*† / 11†|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2*|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*|align="right"|**31 (37)**|
|Alberto Ascari|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6||bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2†|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|align="right"|**25 (28)**|
|José Froilán González|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2†|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|align="right"|**24 (27)**||
|Nino Farina|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3||bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret*|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3† / Ret*|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|align="right"|**19 (22)**|
|Luigi Villoresi|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**15 (18)**|
|Piero Taruffi|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**10**|||
|Lee Wallard||bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*|||||||align="right"|**9**|||||||
|Felice Bonetto|||||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3†|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|align="right"|**7**||||
|Mike Nazaruk||bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|||||||align="right"|**6**|||||||
|Reg Parnell||||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5||bgcolor="white"|DNS||align="right"|**5**|||||
|Luigi Fagioli||||bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1† / 11†|||||align="right"|**4**|||||||
|Consalvo Sanesi|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6||||align="right"|**3**||||
|Louis Rosier|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|align="right"|**3**|
|Andy Linden||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|||||||align="right"|**3**|||||||
|Manny Ayulo||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3†|||||||align="right"|**2**|||||||
|Jack McGrath||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3†|||||||align="right"|**2**|||||||
|Toulo de Graffenried|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|align="right"|**2**|||
|Yves Giraud Cabantous|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**2**||
|Bobby Ball||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|||||||align="right"|**2**|||||||
|Louis Chiron|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|
|Rudi Fischer|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Andre Simon||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**||||
|Henry Banks||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Andre Pilette|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Robert Manzon||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|align="right"|**0**||||
|Johnny Claes|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|
|Carl Forberg||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Peter Walker|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Pierre Levegh|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**|||||
|Philippe Etancelin|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|align="right"|**0**|||
|Stirling Moss|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Duane Carter||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Eugene Chaboud||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Brian Shawe Taylor|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Guy Mairesse|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Peter Whitehead|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||
|Franco Rol|||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Jacques Swaters||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Paco Godia||||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Bob Gerard|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Harry Schell|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Duncan Hamilton|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Maurice Trintignant||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**||||
|Henri Louveau|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|George Abecassis|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Peter Hirt|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Tony Bettenhausen||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Duke Nalon||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Gene Force||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Sam Hanks||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Bill Schindler||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Mauri Rose||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Walt Faulkner||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Jimmy Davies||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Fred Agabashian||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Carl Scarborough||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Bill Mackey||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Chuck Stevenson||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Johnnie Parsons||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Cecil Green||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Troy Ruttman||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Duke Dinsmore||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Chet Miller||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Walt Brown||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Rodger Ward||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Cliff Griffith||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Bill Vukovich||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|George Connor||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Mack Hellings||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Joe James||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Johnny McDowell||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Aldo Gordini||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Onofre Marimon||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Joe Kelly|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Philip Fotheringham-Parker|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|David Murray|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|John James|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Paul Pietsch||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Toni Branca||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Chico Landi|||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Georges Grignard||||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Prince Bira||||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Ken Richardson|||||||bgcolor="white"|DNS||align="right"|**0**|||||||
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- Fastest lap (1 point awarded)
- † Position shared between more drivers of the same car
- Only the best 4 results counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.

## Non-Championship race results

Other Formula One races, which did not count towards the World Championship, also held in 1951.

|Race Name|Circuit|Date|Winning driver|Constructor|Report|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|I Gran Premio di Siracusa|Syracuse|March 11|Luigi Villoresi|Ferrari|Report|
|XII Grand Prix de Pau|Pau|March 26|Luigi Villoresi|Ferrari|Report|
|III Richmond Trophy|Goodwood|March 26|B. Bira|Maserati|Report|
|VI Gran Premio di Sanremo|Ospedaletti|April 22|Alberto Ascari|Ferrari|Report|
|I Grand Prix de Bordeaux|Bordeaux|April 29|Louis Rosier|Talbot-Lago|Report|
|III BRDC International Trophy|Silverstone|May 5|Reg Parnell|Ferrari|Report|
|V Grand Prix de Paris|Bois de Boulogne|May 20|Giuseppe Farina|Maserati|Report|
|V Ulster Trophy|Dundrod|June 2|Giuseppe Farina|Alfa Romeo|Report|
|I Scottish Grand Prix|Winfield|July 21|Philip Fotheringham-Parker|Maserati|Report|
|II Grote Prijs van Nederland|Zandvoort|July 22|Louis Rosier|Talbot-Lago|Report|
|XIII Grand Prix de l'Albigeois|Albi|August 5|Maurice Trintignant|Simca-Gordini|Report|
|XX Circuito di Pescara|Pescara|August 15|José Froilán González|Ferrari|Report|
|V Gran Premio di Bari|Bari|September 2|Juan Manuel Fangio|Alfa Romeo|Report|
|IV Goodwood Trophy|Goodwood|September 29|Giuseppe Farina|Alfa Romeo|Report|