| 1 | Juan Manuel Fangio | RA |  | Officine Alfieri Maserati | Maserati 250F | Maserati 2.5 L6 Maserati 2.5 V12 | Pirelli |
| 2 | Jean Marie Behra | F |  |
| 3 | Stirling Crawford Moss | GB |  | Maserati 2.5 L6 |
| 4 | Carlos Alberto Menditeguy | RA |  |
| 5 | Henry O'Reilly Schell | USA |  |
| 6 | Giorgio Scarlatti | I |  |
| 7 | Hans Herrmann | D |  |
| 8 | Henry O'Reilly Schell | USA |  | Scuderia Centro Sud | Maserati 250F | Maserati 2.5 L6 | Pirelli |
| 9 | Hans Herrmann | D |  |
| 10 | Joakim Bonnier | S |  |
| 11 | Masten Gregory | USA |  |
| 12 | Andre Simon | F |  |
| 13 | Alejandro di Tomaso | RA |  | Ferrari 500 | Ferrari 2.5 L4 | |
| 14 | Luigi Piotti | I |  | L Piotti | Maserati 250F | Maserati 2.5 L6 | Pirelli |
| 15 | Joakim Bonnier | S |  | Joe Bonnier | Maserati 250F | Maserati 2.5 L6 | Pirelli |
| 16 | Andre Simon | F |  | Ottorino Volonterio | Maserati 250F | Maserati 2.5 L6 | Pirelli |
| 17 | Ottorino Volonterio | CH |  |
| 18 | Ivor León John Bueb | GB |  | Gilby Engineering | Maserati 250F | Maserati 2.5 L6 | Pirelli |
| 19 | Horace Harry Twigg Gould | GB |  | H H Gould | Maserati 250F | Maserati 2.5 L6 | Pirelli |
| 20 | Bruce Henley Halford | GB |  | B Halford | Maserati 250F | Maserati 2.5 L6 | Pirelli |
| 21 | Francisco Godia Sales | E |  | Francisco Godia Sales | Maserati 250F | Maserati 2.5 L6 | Pirelli |
| 22 | Peter John Collins | GB |  | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari D50 | Ferrari 2.5 V8 | Englebert |
| 23 | Luigi Musso | I |  |
| 24 | Eugenio Castellotti | I |  |
| 25 | John Michael Hawthorn | GB |  |
| 26 | Cesare Perdisa | I |  |
| 27 | Wolfgang Graf Alexander Berghe von Trips | D |  |
| 28 | José Froilán González | RA |  |
| 29 | Alfonso Antonio Vicente Eduardo Ángel Blas Francisco de Borja Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton | E |  |
| 30 | Maurice Bienvenu Jean Paul Trintignant | F |  |
| 31 | Stirling Crawford Moss | GB |  | Vandervell Products Ltd. | Vanwall | Vanwall 2.5 L4 | Pirelli |
| 32 | Roy Francesco Salvadori | GB |  |
| 33 | Stuart Nigel Lewis-Evans | GB |  |
| 34 | Charles Anthony Standish Brooks | GB |  |
| 35 | Williams Ronald Flockhart | GB |  | Owen Racing Organisation | BRM P25 | BRM 2.5 L4 | |
| 36 | Roy Francesco Salvadori | GB |  |
| 37 | Alfred Lazarus Fingleston | GB |  |
| 38 | Herbert MacKay-Fraser | USA |  |
| 39 | John Fairman | GB |  |
| 40 | Roy Francesco Salvadori | GB |  | Cooper Car Co | Cooper T43 | Climax 2.0 L4 Climax 1.5 L4 | |
| 41 | John Arthur Brabham | AUS |  |
| 42 | Alfred Lazarus Fingleston | GB |  | Climax 1.5 L4 |
| 43 | Michael MacDowel | GB |  |
| 44 | John Arthur Brabham | AUS |  | R R C Walker Racing Team | Cooper T43 | Climax 1.5 L4 Climax 2.0 L4 | |
| 45 | Frederick Roberts Gerard | GB |  | F R Gerard Cars | Cooper T44 | Bristol 2.0 L6 | |
| 46 | Anthony Marsh | GB |  | Ridgeway Management | Cooper T43 | Climax 1.5 L4 | |
| 47 | Paul Thomas England | AUS |  | Cooper T41 |
| 48 | John Brian Naylor | GB |  | J B Naylor | Cooper T43 | Climax 1.5 L4 | |
| 49 | Richard Gibson | GB |  | R Gibson | Cooper T43 | Climax 1.5 L4 | |
| 50 | Stuart Nigel Lewis-Evans | GB |  | Connaught Engineering | Connaught B | Alta 1.5 L4 | |
| 51 | Ivor León John Bueb | GB |  |
| 52 | Umberto Maglioli | I |  | Dr Ing F Porsche KG | Porsche 550RS | Porsche 1.5 F4 | |
| 53 | Edgar Barth | DDR |  |
| 54 | Jonkheer Carel Pieter Anthonie Jan Hubertus Godin de Beaufort | NL |  | Ecurie Maarsbergen | Porsche 550RS | Porsche 1.5 F4 | |
| 55 | James Ernest Bryan | USA |  | A E Dean | Kuzma | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 56 | Donald Freeland | USA |  | Ansted Rotary Corp | Kurtis Kraft 500D | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 57 | James Reece | USA |  | Fred & Richard Sommer | Kurtis Kraft 500C | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 58 | John Boyd | USA |  | George Bignotti | Kurtis Kraft 500G | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 59 | Frederick L. Agabashian | USA |  |
| 60 | Robert Veith | USA |  | Bob Estes | Phillips | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 61 | Rodger Ward | USA |  | Roger Wolcott | Lesovsky | Offenhauser 4.5 L4C | Firestone |
| 62 | Samuel Hanks | USA |  | George Salih | Salih | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 63 | John Thomson | USA |  | Racing Associates | Kuzma | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 64 | Patrick O'Connor | USA |  | Chapman S Root | Kurtis Kraft 500G | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 65 | John Parsons | USA |  |
| 66 | Marshall Teague | USA |  | Kurtis Kraft 500D |
| 67 | Alvah A. Keller | USA |  | Pat Clancy | Kurtis Kraft 500G | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 68 | Jack Turner | USA |  |
| 69 | Leslie Eugene Hartley | USA |  | Joseph Massaglia Jr | Lesovsky | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 70 | Elmer George | USA |  | Ernest L Ruiz | Kurtis Kraft 500B | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 71 | Jim Rathmann | USA |  | Lindsey Hopkins | Epperly | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 72 | Melvin Eugene Bettenhausen | USA |  | Novi Racing Corp | Kurtis Kraft | Novi 3.0 L8C | Firestone |
| 73 | Paul Russo | USA |  |
| 74 | John Tolan | USA |  | Lysle Greenman | Kuzma | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 75 | William Cheesbourg | USA |  | J S Donaldson | Kurtis Kraft 500G | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 76 | Edward Johnson | USA |  | H A Chapman | Kurtis Kraft 500B | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 77 | Troy Ruttman | USA |  | John Zink | Watson | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 78 | Edward Russo | USA |  | Fred Slavi | Kurtis Kraft 500C | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 79 | James Daywalt | USA |  | H H Johnson | Kurtis Kraft 500C | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 80 | Andrew Linden | USA |  | Kalamazoo Sports Inc | Kurtis Kraft 500G | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 81 | Edward Elisian | USA |  | Kurtis Kraft 500C |
| 82 | Michael Magill | USA |  | George Walter Jr | Kurtis Kraft 500G | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 83 | Chuck Weyant | USA |  | Pete Salemi | Kuzma | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 84 | Edward Sachs | USA |  | Peter Schmidt | Kuzma | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 85 | Gerald Herman | USA |  | Harry Dunn | Dunn | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 86 | Donald Edmunds | USA |  | Roy McKay | Kurtis Kraft 500G | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |
| 87 | Robert Christie | USA |  | Cars Inc | Kurtis Kraft 500C | Offenhauser 4.5 L4 | Firestone |