Tony Brooks is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in Formula 1 for BRM. Brooks has recorded 6 wins and 10 podiums from 39 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,920 ranks Brooks 368th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 1961-10-08 | Watkins Glen | P3 | +121 |
| 1961-09-10 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | P5 | +123 |
| 1961-08-06 | Nürburgring | DNF | −32 |
| 1961-07-15 | Aintree | P9 | +76 |
| 1961-07-02 | Reims-Gueux | DNF | −85 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | ▸Formula 1 | BRM | 8 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | P10 | +158 | 5,041 |
| 1960 | ▸Formula 1 | Cooper-Climax | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | P11 | −164 | 4,883 |
| 1959 | ▸Formula 1 | Ferrari | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 27 | P2 | +97 | 5,047 |
| 1958 | ▸Formula 1 | Vanwall | 9 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 24 | P3 | +107 | 4,950 |
| 1957 | ▸Formula 1 | Vanwall | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | P5 | +200 | 4,843 |
| 1956 | ▸Formula 1 | BRM | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P28 | −158 | 4,642 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇫🇷 Maurice Trintignant | 4,839 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 77% |
| 🇳🇿 Bruce McLaren | 5,136 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 42% |
| 🇺🇸 Phil Hill | 4,199 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 50% |
| 🇩🇪 Wolfgang von Trips | 5,289 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 40% |
| 🇦🇺 Jack Brabham | 5,211 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 33% |
| 🇺🇸 Dan Gurney | 4,902 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 33% |
| 🇺🇸 Masten Gregory | 4,551 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 56% |
| 🇬🇧 Roy Salvadori | 4,461 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 67% |
| 🇸🇪 Jo Bonnier | 4,402 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 63% |
| 🇬🇧 Stirling Moss | 5,388 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% |
Tony Brooks was a British Formula 1 driver who competed in the sport from 1956 to 1961, taking 39 starts with BRM as his primary team. He won six Grands Prix and finished on the podium ten times, averaging a fifth-place finish across classified races. His Racer Rating of 4,920 places him in the upper tier of professional single-seater racing, comfortably ahead of many of his contemporaries but below the era's dominant figures. Brooks competed across six seasons when Grand Prix racing remained genuinely dangerous and uncertain; his career spanned a formative period of the sport when reliability and driver skill were equally matched determinants of success.[1]
Brooks held a notable head-to-head record against several front-running professionals of his generation. He finished ahead of Maurice Trintignant in thirteen shared races and held even records against Phil Hill, a former champion, over twelve meetings. However, he faced stiffer competition from stronger drivers; he trailed Jack Brabham, a three-time world champion, in nine shared starts and was outfinished by Bruce McLaren and Wolfgang von Trips in head-to-head records spanning multiple races. Against the very strongest drivers of the era, such as Jim Clark and Mike Hawthorn, Brooks proved capable of occasional victories but could not establish sustained dominance.[2]
His most notable achievements came through his tenure with Vanwall, a team that won ten races across its history with drivers of varying calibre. Brooks retired from Formula 1 in 1961 and remained the last surviving Grand Prix winner from the 1950s until his death in 2022.