Race · Round 7 of 8 ·

1956 German Grand Prix

Juan Manuel Fangio won for Ferrari from pole at Nurburgring Nordschleife. 14 of the starters were not classified. With this win, Juan Manuel Fangio set a new record of 20 championship Grand Prix wins.

Circuit
Nurburgring NordschleifeNurburg, Germany
Winner
Juan Manuel FangioFerrari
Entries
225 classified

Classification

Classification
PosDriverConstructorChassisGridLapsOutPointsFL
1Juan Manuel FangioFerrari555122Finished9fastest lap
2Sir Stirling MossMaserati250F422Finished6
3Jean BehraMaserati250F822Finished4
4Paco GodiaMaserati250F1620Finished3
5Louis RosierMaserati250F1419Finished2
DSQBruce HalfordMaserati250F1120Push start0
NCOttorino VolonterioMaseratiA6GCM1916NC0
DNFAndré MilhouxGordini—2115Engine0
DNFAlfonso de PortagoFerrari5551014Accident0
DNFLuigi VilloresiMaserati250F2013Engine0
DNFHarry SchellMaserati250F1213Overheating0
DNFLuigi MussoFerrari555511Accident0
DNFPeter CollinsFerrari55528DNF0
DNFEugenio CastellottiFerrari55535DNF0
DNFUmberto MaglioliMaserati250F73Steering0
DNFHorace GouldMaserati250F133Oil pressure0
DNFRoy SalvadoriMaserati250F92Suspension0
DNFRobert ManzonGordini—150Suspension0
DNFGiorgio ScarlattiFerrari500170Engine0
DNSCesare PerdisaMaserati250F6—Accident in practice0
DNSAndré PiletteGordini—18—Accident in practice0
DNSLuigi PiottiMaserati250F——Car raced by Villoresi0
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

036912151821Laps completedGridResult11Juan Manuel Fangio42Sir Stirling Moss83Jean Behra164Paco Godia145Louis Rosier11DSQBruce Halford19NCOttorino Volonterio21DNFAndré Milhoux10DNFAlfonso de Portago20DNFLuigi Villoresi12DNFHarry Schell5DNFLuigi Musso2DNFPeter Collins3DNFEugenio Castellotti7DNFUmberto Maglioli13DNFHorace Gould9DNFRoy Salvadori15DNFRobert Manzon17DNFGiorgio Scarlatti

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.

Grid to flag
DriverGridResultLaps
Juan Manuel Fangio1122
Sir Stirling Moss4222
Jean Behra8322
Paco Godia16420
Louis Rosier14519
Bruce Halford11DSQ20
Ottorino Volonterio19NC16
André Milhoux21DNF15
Alfonso de Portago10DNF14
Luigi Villoresi20DNF13
Harry Schell12DNF13
Luigi Musso5DNF11
Peter Collins2DNF8
Eugenio Castellotti3DNF5
Umberto Maglioli7DNF3
Horace Gould13DNF3
Roy Salvadori9DNF2
Robert Manzon15DNF0
Giorgio Scarlatti17DNF0

Qualifying

Qualifying
PosDriverConstructorNo.TimeGapInterval
1Juan Manuel FangioFerrari19:51.200——
2Peter CollinsFerrari29:51.500+0.300+0.300
3Eugenio CastellottiFerrari39:54.400+3.200+2.900
4Sir Stirling MossMaserati710:03.400+12.200+9.000
5Luigi MussoFerrari410:20.300+29.100+16.900
6Cesare PerdisaMaserati810:21.000+29.800+0.700
7Umberto MaglioliMaserati810:23.500+32.300+2.500
8Jean BehraMaserati610:31.600+40.400+8.100
9Roy SalvadoriMaserati1610:32.400+41.200+0.800
10Alfonso de PortagoFerrari510:37.100+45.900+4.700
11Bruce HalfordMaserati2111:04.100+1:12.900+27.000
12Harry SchellMaserati1211:16.500+1:25.300+12.400
13Horace GouldMaserati1911:33.200+1:42.000+16.700
14Louis RosierMaserati1511:39.000+1:47.800+5.800
15Robert ManzonGordini1011:55.800+2:04.600+16.800
16Paco GodiaMaserati2011:57.600+2:06.400+1.800
17Giorgio ScarlattiFerrari1413:05.200+3:14.000+1:07.600
18André PiletteGordini1113:31.000+3:39.800+25.800
19Luigi PiottiMaserati1813:50.100+3:58.900+19.100
20Ottorino VolonterioMaserati2214:17.100+4:25.900+27.000
21Luigi VilloresiMaserati18———
22André MilhouxGordini11———
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.

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.

Where this comes from

Round
7 of 1956
Grand Prix
German Grand Prix
Dates
Layout raced
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Format
Standard weekend
Constructor
Ferrari
Entrant
Ferrari
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.