Italian Grand Prix

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Date & Time
Sun 13th September 1959 Local
Sun 13th September 1959 2:00pm UTC

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League
Formula 1

Season
1959

Round
Round 8

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Autodromo Nazionale di Monza

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The 1959 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 13 September 1959. It was race 8 of 9 in the 1959 World Championship of Drivers and race 7 of 8 in the 1959 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. It was the 29th Italian Grand Prix and the 24th to be held at Monza. The race was held over 72 laps of the five-kilometre circuit for a total race distance of 414 kilometres.
The race was won by British driver Stirling Moss driving a Cooper T51 for the privateer Rob Walker Racing Team. Moss won by 46 seconds over American driver Phil Hill driving a Ferrari Dino 246 for Scuderia Ferrari. Championship points leader Australian Jack Brabham finished third in works entered Cooper T51, expanding his points lead, but not sufficiently to prevent a championship showdown with Moss and Ferrari driver Tony Brooks at the United States Grand Prix.

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1 Stirling Moss Cooper-Climax 2:04:05.4
2 Phil Hill Ferrari + 46.7
3 Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax + 1:12.5
4 Dan Gurney Ferrari + 1:19.6
5 Cliff Allison Ferrari + 1 Lap
6 Olivier Gendebien Ferrari + 1 Lap
7 Harry Schell BRM + 2 Laps
8 Jo Bonnier BRM + 2 Laps
9 Maurice Trintignant Cooper-Climax + 2 Laps
10 Carroll Shelby Aston Martin + 2 Laps