1954 Formula One season

The **1954 Formula One** season was the 5th edition of the championship. The champion was Juan Manuel Fangio in a close battle.

## Season review

|Rd|Race|Date|Location|Winning driver|Constructor|Report|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Argentine Grand Prix|January 17|Oscar Gálvez|Juan Manuel Fangio|Maserati|Report||
|Indianapolis 500|May 31|Indianapolis|Bill Vukovich|Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser|Report||
|Belgian Grand Prix|June 20|Spa-Francorchamps|Juan Manuel Fangio|Maserati|Report||
|French Grand Prix|July 4|Reims|Juan Manuel Fangio|Mercedes|Report||
|British Grand Prix|July 17|Silverstone|José Froilán González|Ferrari|Report||
|German Grand Prix|August 1|Nürburgring|Juan Manuel Fangio|Mercedes|Report||
|Swiss Grand Prix|August 22|Bremgarten|Juan Manuel Fangio|Mercedes|Report||
|Italian Grand Prix|September 5|Monza|Juan Manuel Fangio|Mercedes|Report||
|Spanish Grand Prix|October 24|Pedralbes|Mike Hawthorn|Ferrari|Report||

## 1954 Drivers Championship final standings

|valign="middle"|Pos.|valign="middle"|Driver|ARG|500‡|BEL|FRA|GBR|GER|SUI|ITA|ESP|valign="middle"|Pts.||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 85%"||||||||||||||||||||
|Juan Manuel Fangio|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1||bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4**|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1*|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|align="right"|**42 (57.14)**|
|José Froilán González|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3*||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4†|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1**|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2†|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2*|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3† / Ret||align="right"|**25.14 (26.64)**||
|Mike Hawthorn|bgcolor="#000000" style="color: white"|DSQ||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4†|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2**|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2†|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|align="right"|**24.64**|
|Maurice Trintignant|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4||bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**17**|
|Karl Kling||||bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4*|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|align="right"|**12**|||
|Bill Vukovich||bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1||||||||align="right"|**8**||||||||
|Hans Herrmann||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret*||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**8**||||
|Luigi Musso|bgcolor="#ffffff"|DNS|||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|align="right"|**6**||||||
|Nino Farina|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||align="right"|**6**|||||||
|Jimmy Bryan||bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2||||||||align="right"|**6**||||||||
|Roberto Mieres|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|align="right"|**6**|
|Jack McGrath||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3*||||||||align="right"|**5**||||||||
|Stirling Moss|||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret**|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**4.14**|||
|Onofre Marimon|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3**|||||align="right"|**4.14**|||||
|Robert Manzon||||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**4**||||
|Sergio Mantovani|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**4**||||
|Prince Bira|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|align="right"|**3**|||
|Umberto Maglioli|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3†||align="right"|**2**||||||
|Andre Pilette|||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**2**||||||
|Luigi Villoresi||||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**2**|||||
|Elie Bayol|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|||||||||align="right"|**2**||||||||
|Mike Nazaruk||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5||||||||align="right"|**2**||||||||
|Troy Ruttman||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4†||||||||align="right"|**1.5**||||||||
|Duane Carter||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4† / 15†||||||||align="right"|**1.5**||||||||
|Alberto Ascari||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|21|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret** / Ret†|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret*|align="right"|**1.14**|||||
|Jean Behra|bgcolor="#000000" style="color: white"|DSQ||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret**|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0.14**|
|Harry Schell|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||
|Ken Wharton||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|align="right"|**0**|||||
|Fred Wacker|||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Fred Agabashian||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Piero Taruffi||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Paco Godia|||||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|6|align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Louis Rosier|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|align="right"|**0**|||
|Peter Collins|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Don Freeland||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Jacques Swaters|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**||||||
|Toulo de Graffenried|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†|align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Paul Russo||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Larry Crockett||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Cal Niday||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Bob Gerard|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Jorge Daponte|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Art Cross||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Don Beauman|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Chuck Stevenson||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Manny Ayulo||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Leslie Marr|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13|||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Bob Sweikert||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Leslie Thorne|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14|||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Horace Gould|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|15|||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Jimmy Jackson||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|15†||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Ernie McCoy||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|16||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Jimmy Reece||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|17||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Ed Elisian||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|18||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Frank Armi||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|19||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Clemar Bucci|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**|||||
|Paul Frère|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Roy Salvadori||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Jacques Pollet||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Roger Loyer|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Sam Hanks||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Pat O'Connor||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Rodger Ward||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Gene Hartley||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Andy Linden||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Johnny Thomson||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Jerry Hoyt||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Jimmy Daywalt||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Tony Bettenhausen||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Spider Webb||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Bill Homeier||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Johnnie Parsons||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Len Duncan||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Pat Flaherty||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Jim Rathmann||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Lance Macklin||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Georges Berger||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Bill Whitehouse|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|John Riseley-Prichard|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Reg Parnell|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Peter Whitehead|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Eric Brandon|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Hermann Lang||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Theo Helfrich||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Ron Flockhart|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†|||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Ottorino Volonterio|||||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret†|align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Alan Brown|||||bgcolor="#ffffff"|DNS|||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
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- Fastest lap (1 point awarded)
- Multiple drivers set equal fastest lap times, thus sharing the 1 point.
- † Position shared between more drivers of the same car
- ‡ Several cars were shared in this race. See the race page for details.
- Only the best 5 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 also held in 1954, which did not count towards the World Championship.

|Race Name|Circuit|Date|Winning driver|Constructor|Report|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|XIII Grande Prêmio Cidade do Rio de Janeiro|Rio de Janeiro|January 3|Toulo de Graffenried|Maserati|Report|
|New Zealand Motor Cup Grand Prix|Ardmore|January 9|Stan Jones|Maybach|Report|
|Gran Premio Ciudad de Buenos Aires|Buenos Aires|January 31|Maurice Trintignant|Ferrari|Report|
|IV Gran Premio di Siracusa|Syracuse|April 11|Nino Farina|Ferrari|Report|
|XV Grand Prix de Pau|Pau|April 19|Jean Behra|Gordini|Report|
|VI Levant Cup|Goodwood|April 19|Reg Parnell|Ferrari|Report|
|III Grand Prix de Bordeaux|Bordeaux|May 9|José Froilán González|Ferrari|Report|
|IV BRDC International Trophy|Silverstone|May 15|José Froilán González|Ferrari|Report|
|VII Gran Premio di Bari|Bari|May 22|José Froilán González|Ferrari|Report|
|II Curtis Trophy|Snetterton|June 5|Roy Salvadori|Maserati|Report|
|XIII Gran Premio di Roma|Castelfusano|June 6|Onofre Marimón|Maserati|Report|
|XXIV Grand Prix des Frontières|Chimay|June 6|B Bira|Maserati|Report|
|I Cornwall M.R.C. Formula 1 Race|Davidstow|June 7|John Riseley-Prichard|Connaught-Francis|Report|
|I BARC Formula 1 Race|Goodwood|June 7|Reg Parnell|Ferrari|Report|
|II Crystal Palace Trophy|Crystal Palace|June 19|Reg Parnell|Ferrari|Report|
|IV Grand Prix de Rouen-les-Essarts|Rouen|July 11|Maurice Trintignant|Ferrari|Report|
|III Grand Prix de Caen|Caen|July 25|Maurice Trintignant|Ferrari|Report|
|I August Cup|Crystal Palace|August 2|Reg Parnell|Ferrari|Report|
|II Cornwall M.R.C. Formula 1 Race|Davidstow|August 2|John Coombs|Lotus-Francis|Report|
|I International Gold Cup|Oulton Park|August 7|Stirling Moss|Maserati|Report|
|RedeX Trophy|Snetterton|August 14|Reg Parnell|Ferrari|Report|
|XXIII Circuito di Pescara|Pescara|August 15|Luigi Musso|Maserati|Report|
|III Joe Fry Memorial Trophy|Castle Combe|August 28|Horace Gould|Cooper-Bristol|Report|
|V Circuit de Cadours|Cadours|September 12|Jean Behra|Gordini|Report|
|I Grosser Preis von Berlin|AVUS|September 19|Karl Kling|Mercedes-Benz|Report|
|VII Goodwood Trophy|Goodwood|September 25|Stirling Moss|Maserati|Report|
|I Daily Telegraph Trophy|Aintree|October 2|Stirling Moss|Maserati|Report|