1926 German Grand Prix
Race details | |||
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1926 Grand Prix season | |||
Date | 11 July 1926 | ||
Official name | I GROßER PREIS VON DEUTSCHLAND | ||
Location | AVUS, Berlin, Germany | ||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
Course length | 19.565 km (12.157 mi) | ||
Distance | 20 laps, 391.308 km (243.148 mi) | ||
Fastest lap | |||
Driver | Ferdinando Minoia | OM 665 | |
Time | 7'17.00 | ||
Podium | |||
First | Mercedes SS | ||
Second | NAG | ||
Third | Alfa-Romeo |
The first auto race 1926 German Grand Prix, held at the AVUS track on July 11, 1926, in heavy rain, was won by native son, Rudolf Caracciola.
After the 1936 win of Bernd Rosemeyer and two more wins by "Carratsch", no other German driver would accomplish a German GP win until Michael Schumacher in 1995.
The 1926 race was marred by an accident involving driver Adolf Rosenberger, whose car crashed into one of the marshals' huts, killing three people.
The German Grand Prix would not return to the AVUS track until 1959.
Classification
Pos | No | Driver | Team | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 14 | Rudolf Caracciola | Mercedes Monza | 20 | 2:54'12.8 | ||
2 | 5 | Christian Riecken | NAG | 20 | 2:57'33.2 | ||
3 | - | Willy Cleer | Alfa Romeo RLSS | 20 | 3:00'16.8 | ||
4 | - | Pierre Clause | Bignan | 20 | 3:02'07.4 | ||
5 | 32 | Georg Klöbe | NSU | 20 | 3:07'27.0 | ||
6 | - | Max zu Schaumburg Lippe | OM 665 | 20 | 3:10'57.4 | ||
7 | - | Jakob Scholl | NSU | 20 | 3:11'54.2 | ||
8 | - | Franz Islinger | NSU | 20 | 3:13'58.8 | ||
9 | - | Hans Santner | OM 665 | 20 | 3:16'54.2 | ||
10 | - | Josef Müller | NSU | 20 | 3:18'25.4 | ||
11 | - | Hans Bakatsch | Brennabor | 19 | + 1 Lap | ||
12 | - | Reichstein | Brennabor | 19 | + 1 Lap | ||
13 | - | Fritz Feldmann | Hansa | 19 | + 1 Lap | ||
14 | - | Orska | NAG | 19 | + 1 Lap | ||
15 | - | Fritz Mitzlaff | Brennabor | 20 | + 1 Lap | ||
16 | - | Hugo Urban Emmerich | Talbot 70 | 19 | + 1 Lap | ||
17 | - | Max Wälti | Bugatti T22 | 19 | + 1 Lap | ||
Ret | - | Adolf Rosenberger | Mercedes | 7 | Accident | ||
Ret | - | Hans Berthold | NAG | ||||
Ret | - | Carl Deimann | Austro-Daimler | ||||
Ret | - | Ernst Hofer | Steiger | ||||
Ret | - | Hans Kolb | Bugatti T22 | ||||
Ret | - | Josef Ludwig | Bugatti T22 | ||||
Ret | - | Rudolf Breier | Bugatti T22 | ||||
Ret | - | Ferdinando Minoia | OM 665 | ||||
Ret | - | Jean Chassagne | Talbot 70 | Accident | |||
Ret | - | August Momberger | NSU | ||||
Ret | - | Georg Kimpel | Bugatti T22 | ||||
Ret | - | Willy Loge | AGA | ||||
Ret | - | Hans Friedrich | Pluto-Amilcar | ||||
Ret | - | Adolf Mederer | Pluto-Amilcar | Accident | |||
Ret | - | Georg Fielder | BF |
Notes
- Fastest lap: Ferdinando Minoia 7'17.0
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