DUTCH GRAND PRIX, ZANDVOORT
31 May 1959
A significant race for several reasons: the race was won by Swedish driver Joakim Bonnier driving the P25 which, despite early reliability problems in development, began to perform just as there was a concerted move to rear engine cars. It would be the only World Championship victory of Bonnier’s fifteen-year Grand Prix career and it was also the first win for the Owen Organisation, the race team of BRM, after almost a decade of effort. Bonnier led from start to finish and won by fifteen seconds over Australian driver Jack Brabham driving a Cooper T51, to become the first Swedish driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix.The race was held over 75 laps of the four kilometre circuit for a race distance of 314 kilometres.
