2018 German Grand Prix
2018 German Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 11 of 21 in the 2018 Formula One World Championship
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![]() The layout of the Hockenheimring | |||||
Race details[1] | |||||
Date | 22 July 2018 | ||||
Official name | Formula 1 Emirates Großer Preis von Deutschland 2018 | ||||
Location | Hockenheimring, Hockenheim, Germany | ||||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
Course length | 4.574 km (2.842 miles) | ||||
Distance | 67 laps, 306.458 km (190.433 miles) |
The 2018 German Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Emirates Großer Preis von Deutschland 2018) was a Formula One motor race that is due to be held on 22 July 2018. After a one-year absence from the championship, the race returned to the Hockenheimring near Hockenheim in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The circuit last held the race in 2016. It will be the eleventh round of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship, and marks the seventy-eighth running of the German Grand Prix, and the sixty-third time the race has been run as a round of the World Championship since the series' inception in 1950.
Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel enters the round as the leader of the World Drivers' Championship. Lewis Hamilton is in second place, eight points behind Vettel. In the World Constructors' Championship, Ferrari hold a twenty-point lead over Mercedes.
References
- ^ "Formula 1 Großer Pries von Deutschland 2016". Formula1.com. Formula One World Championship Limited. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
External links
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