6 Hours of Nürburgring
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| Venue | Nürburgring |
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| First race | 1953 |
| First FIA WEC race | 2015 |
| Duration | 6 Hours |
| Previous names | ADAC 1000 km Nürburgring iRacing.com 1000 km Nürburgring |
| Most wins (driver) | Stirling Moss (4) |
| Most wins (team) | SpA Ferrari (7) |
| Most wins (manufacturer) | Porsche (13) |
The 6 Hours of Nürburgring (formerly the Nürburgring 1000 km) is an endurance race for sports cars held on the Nürburgring in Germany and organized by the ADAC since 1953.
On the traditional 22.810 km long Nordschleife ("Northern Loop") version, the competition took usually 44 laps (1003.64 km, since 1967 1004.74 km) and lasted about eight hours, later less than six hours. While the 1974 event was shortened in the wake of the oil crisis, the 1976 race was extended by 3 laps and covered 1073.245 km.
The inaugural race, which counted towards the 1953 World Sportscar Championship, was won by Alberto Ascari and Giuseppe Farina in a Ferrari. Due to disappointing attendance, the race was not held in the following two years. It became quite popular in the 1960s and 1970s though, and even more so after Formula One decided not to race at the Nürburgring after 1976 on safety grounds.
The last race on the Northern Loop in 1983 was won by Jochen Mass and Jacky Ickx in their Rothmans Porsche 956. In that year, due to the ongoing construction work, the track had been shorted to 20.832 km and provisional pits were used. This event saw the fastest ever timed lap of the Nordschleife when German driver Stefan Bellof lapped his Rothmans Porsche in 6:11.13 during practice, and an average of over 200 km/h. Bellof also set the race lap record during that race lapping in 6:25.91.
Since 1984, the 1000 km races were run on the new, much shorter Grand-Prix-Strecke, while the 24 Hours Nürburgring stayed on the legendary long track. In 1991, the 1000 km races were first shortened to 480 km, then discontinued overall due to the demise of the World Sportscar Championship.
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