Race · Round 6 of 9 · 1 August 1954

1954 German Grand Prix

Juan Manuel Fangio won for Mercedes from pole at Nurburgring Nordschleife.

Circuit: Nurburgring NordschleifeNurburg, Germany
Winner: Juan Manuel FangioMercedes
Pole: Juan Manuel Fangio
Fastest lap: Karl Kling
Entries: 2311 classified

This race includes a shared drive. Two drivers took turns in one car and both are classified in the same position, so a position below appears twice. That is correct, not a duplicated row.

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Juan Manuel Fangio	Mercedes	W196	1	22	Finished	8
2	Jose Froilan Gonzalez shared	Ferrari	—	5	22	Finished	3
2	Mike Hawthorn shared	Ferrari	—	2	3	Transmission	3
3	Maurice Trintignant	Ferrari	—	7	22	Finished	4
4	Karl Kling	Mercedes	W196	23	22	Finished	4	fastest lap
5	Sergio Mantovani	Maserati	—	15	22	Finished	2
6	Piero Taruffi	Ferrari	—	13	21	Finished	0
7	Harry Schell	Maserati	—	14	21	Finished	0
8	Louis Rosier	Ferrari	—	18	21	Finished	0
9	Robert Manzon	Ferrari	—	12	20	Finished	0
10	Jean Behra	Gordini	T16	9	20	Finished	0
DNF	Birabongse Bhanudej	Maserati	250F	19	18	Steering	0
DNF	Hermann Lang	Mercedes	W196	11	10	Spun off	0
DNF	Clemar Bucci	Gordini	T16	16	8	Wheel	0
DNF	Theo Helfrich	Klenk	Meteor	21	8	Engine	0
DNF	Hans Herrmann	Mercedes	W196	4	7	Fuel leak	0
DNF	Paul Frère	Gordini	T16	6	4	Wheel	0
DNF	Roberto Mieres	Maserati	—	17	2	Fuel leak	0
DNF	Sir Stirling Moss	Maserati	250F	3	1	Wheel bearing	0
DNF	André Pilette	Gordini	T16	20	0	Suspension	0
DNS	Onofre Marimon	Maserati	—	8	—	Fatal accident in practice	0
DNS	Luigi Villoresi	Maserati	—	10	—	Withdrew	0
DNS	Ken Wharton	Maserati	250F	22	—	Withdrew	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout nurburgring-1 · 22.81 km · 160 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap. Drivers who shared a car have a line each.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Juan Manuel Fangio	1	1	22
Jose Froilan Gonzalez shared	5	2	22
Mike Hawthorn shared	2	2	3
Maurice Trintignant	7	3	22
Karl Kling	23	4	22
Sergio Mantovani	15	5	22
Piero Taruffi	13	6	21
Harry Schell	14	7	21
Louis Rosier	18	8	21
Robert Manzon	12	9	20
Jean Behra	9	10	20
Birabongse Bhanudej	19	DNF	18
Hermann Lang	11	DNF	10
Clemar Bucci	16	DNF	8
Theo Helfrich	21	DNF	8
Hans Herrmann	4	DNF	7
Paul Frère	6	DNF	4
Roberto Mieres	17	DNF	2
Sir Stirling Moss	3	DNF	1
André Pilette	20	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Juan Manuel Fangio	Mercedes	18	9:50.100	—	—
2	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	3	9:53.300	+3.200	+3.200
3	Sir Stirling Moss	Maserati	16	10:00.700	+10.600	+7.400
4	Hans Herrmann	Mercedes	20	10:01.500	+11.400	+0.800
5	Jose Froilan Gonzalez	Ferrari	1	10:01.800	+11.700	+0.300
6	Paul Frère	Gordini	10	10:05.900	+15.800	+4.100
7	Maurice Trintignant	Ferrari	2	10:07.500	+17.400	+1.600
8	Onofre Marimon	Maserati	6	10:11.300	+21.200	+3.800
9	Jean Behra	Gordini	9	10:11.900	+21.800	+0.600
10	Luigi Villoresi	Maserati	5	—	—	—
11	Hermann Lang	Mercedes	21	10:13.100	+23.000	—
12	Robert Manzon	Ferrari	24	10:16.100	+26.000	+3.000
13	Piero Taruffi	Ferrari	4	10:23.000	+32.900	+6.900
14	Harry Schell	Maserati	15	10:28.700	+38.600	+5.700
15	Sergio Mantovani	Maserati	7	10:39.100	+49.000	+10.400
16	Clemar Bucci	Gordini	11	10:43.700	+53.600	+4.600
17	Roberto Mieres	Maserati	8	10:47.000	+56.900	+3.300
18	Louis Rosier	Ferrari	25	11:04.300	+1:14.200	+17.300
19	Birabongse Bhanudej	Maserati	14	11:10.300	+1:20.200	+6.000
20	André Pilette	Gordini	12	11:13.400	+1:23.300	+3.100
21	Theo Helfrich	Klenk	22	11:18.300	+1:28.200	+4.900
22	Ken Wharton	Maserati	17	—	—	—
23	Karl Kling	Mercedes	19	—	—	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

Photographs from this race

Filed on Wikimedia Commons under this race's own category, each shown with the photographer and licence its terms require. The filing is the Commons editors' and has not been checked here.

Everything filed under 1954 German Grand Prix on Wikimedia Commons

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Mercedes-Benz W196
KlingK-MB-W196-1976 · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de · unchecked

Maserati 250F
Maserati 250 F, Bj. 1957 (1977-08-14) Südkehre · Spurzem - Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Round: 6 of 1954
Grand Prix: German Grand Prix
Dates: 1 Aug 1954
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Mercedes
Entrant: Mercedes
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.