1953 German Grand Prix

  1953 German Grand Prix

Race details
Race 7 of 9 in the 1953 Formula One season
Nürburgring layout
Date	August 2, 1953
Official name	XVI Großer Preis von Deutschland
Location	Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany
Course	Permanent road course 22.810 km (14.173 mi)
Distance	18 laps, 410.580 km (255.123 mi)
Weather	Sunny, mild, dry
Pole position
Driver	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari
Time	9:59.8
Fastest lap
Driver	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari
Time	9:56.0 on lap 12
Podium
First	Nino Farina	Ferrari
Second	Juan Manuel Fangio	Maserati
Third	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari

The 1953 German Grand Prix was a Formula Two race held on August 2, 1953 at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. It was the seventh round of the 1953 World Drivers' Championship, which was run to Formula Two rules in 1952 and 1953, rather than the Formula One regulations normally used.

Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	2	Nino Farina	Ferrari	18	3:02:25.0	3	8
2	5	Juan Manuel Fangio	Maserati	18	+ 1:04.0	2	6
3	3	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	18	+ 1:43.6	4	4
4	7	Felice Bonetto	Maserati	18	+ 8:48.6	7	3
5	17	Toulo de Graffenried	Maserati	17	+ 1 Lap	11	2
6	19	Stirling Moss	Cooper-Alta	17	+ 1 Lap	12
7	18	Jacques Swaters	Ferrari	17	+ 1 Lap	19
8	1	Alberto Ascari Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari	17	+ 1 Lap	1
9	31	Hans Herrmann	Veritas	17	+ 1 Lap	14
10	20	Louis Rosier	Ferrari	17	+ 1 Lap	22
11	40	Rodney Nuckey	Cooper-Bristol	16	+ 2 Laps	20
12	24	Theo Helfrich	Veritas	16	+ 2 Laps	28
13	16	Kenneth McAlpine	Connaught-Lea-Francis	16	+ 2 Laps	16
14	36	Rudolf Krause	BMW	16	+ 2 Laps	26
15	37	Ernst Klodwig	BMW	15	+ 3 Laps	32
16	22	Wolfgang Seidel	Veritas	14	+ 4 Laps	29
Ret	4	Luigi Villoresi Alberto Ascari	Ferrari	15	Engine	6	1
Ret	38	Alan Brown	Cooper-Bristol	15	Engine	17
Ret	8	Onofre Marimón	Maserati	13	Suspension	8
Ret	35	Edgar Barth	EMW	12	Exhaust	24
Ret	12	Johnny Claes	Connaught-Lea-Francis	12	Retirement	25
Ret	26	Oswald Karch	Veritas	10	Retirement	34
Ret	23	Willi Heeks	Veritas	8	Retirement	18
Ret	9	Jean Behra	Gordini	7	Gearbox	9
Ret	11	Harry Schell	Gordini	6	Engine	10
Ret	14	Prince Bira	Connaught-Lea-Francis	6	Suspension	15
Ret	28	Theo Fitzau	AFM-BMW	3	Retirement	21
Ret	34	Kurt Adolff	Ferrari	3	Retirement	27
Ret	41	Günther Bechem	AFM-BMW	2	Retirement	30
Ret	10	Maurice Trintignant	Gordini	1	Differential	5
Ret	15	Roy Salvadori	Connaught-Lea-Francis	1	Engine	13
Ret	32	Erwin Bauer	Veritas	1	Retirement	33
Ret	21	Hans Stuck	AFM-Bristol	0	Retirement	23
Ret	30	Ernst Loof	Veritas	0	Fuel Pump	31

Notes

• Shared Drives: (Ascari and Villoresi switched cars)
  • Car #1: Ascari (9 laps) then Villoresi (8 laps)
  • Car #4: Villoresi (10 laps) then Ascari (5 laps)
• Farinas win means that he is the oldest driver to win a race driving by himself.
• Despite not scoring any more points, Ascari won the championship at this race with an unassailable lead.
• This race had the highest number of cars on the grid of any World Drivers' Championship race, with 34 starters.

Drivers' Championship standings after the race

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Alberto Ascari	33.5 (37.5)
2	Nino Farina	20
3	Juan Manuel Fangio	19
4	Mike Hawthorn	18 (20)
5	José Froilán González	13.5 (14.5)

• Note: Only the top five positions are included. Only the best 4 results counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.

References

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