Graham Hill vs Innes Ireland, 1959
Teammates at Lotus-Borgward — the same car, so these numbers compare the drivers rather than the machinery. Compare full careers →
In the 1959 season, Graham Hill and Innes Ireland were teammates at Lotus-Borgward, competing in five races together. Hill outqualified Ireland in all five instances but finished ahead of him only once. Ireland earned five championship points, while Hill finished with none, and both drivers did not achieve any race wins or podium finishes.
Summarised by gpt-4o-mini from the figures below.5–0Qualifyingof 5 compared
0–1Race finishesof 1 compared
Qualifying is compared on the grid they actually started from. A race counts only where both were classified — one of them retiring leaves nothing to compare, so it is not scored to the other.
1959 season
55
05
00
00
P7P4
11.012.7
8.04.5
54