1959 Portuguese Grand Prix

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1959 Portuguese Grand Prix
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Race details
Date	23 August 1959
Official name	VIII Portuguese Grand Prix
Location	Circuito de Monsanto Lisbon, Portugal
Course	Public road
Course length	5.440 km (3.380 miles)
Distance	62 laps, 337.28 km (209.56 miles)
Weather	Hot and clear.
Pole position
Driver	Stirling Moss	Cooper-Climax
Time	2:02.89
Fastest lap
Driver	Stirling Moss	Cooper-Climax
Time	2:05.07
Podium
First	Stirling Moss	Cooper-Climax
Second	Masten Gregory	Cooper-Climax
Third	Dan Gurney	Ferrari
Lap leaders

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.