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1956 German Grand Prix

West Germany  1956 German Grand Prix
Race details
Race 7 of 8 in the 1956 Formula One season
Nürburgring layout
Nürburgring layout
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 Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio Ferrari
Time 9:41.6
Podium
First Ferrari
Second Maserati
Third Maserati

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.



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