Race details | |||
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Race 7 of 8 in the 1956 Formula One season | |||
Nürburgring layout
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Date | 5 August 1956 | ||
Official name | XVIII Großer Preis von Deutschland | ||
Location | Nürburgring, Nürburg, West Germany | ||
Course | Permanent road course | ||
Course length | 22.810 km (14.173 mi) | ||
Distance | 22 laps, 501.820 km (311.806 mi) | ||
Pole position | |||
Driver | Ferrari | ||
Time | 9:51.2 | ||
Fastest lap | |||
Driver | Juan Manuel Fangio | Ferrari | |
Time | 9:41.6 | ||
Podium | |||
First | Ferrari | ||
Second | Maserati | ||
Third | Maserati | ||
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The 1956 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 5 August 1956 at Nürburgring. It was the seventh round of the 1956 World Drivers' Championship.
Forty-five-year-old Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio won the race for Ferrari, and broke Hermann Lang's 17-year-old lap record, set in a Mercedes. Present at the event was 18-year old Juan Carlos, later King of Spain, in support of his relative Alfonso de Portago.