German Grand Prix
| German Grand Prix | |
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| File:Germany flag large.png Hockenheimring | |
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| Laps | 67 |
| Circuit length | 4.57 km (2.84 miles) |
| Race length | 306.46 km (190.42 miles) |
| Most wins by single driver | {{{Most_wins_driver}}} |
| Most wins by single constructor | {{{Most_wins_constructor}}} |
| Last race (2005): | |
| Winner | Fernando Alonso |
| Winning constructor | Renault |
| Winning time | 1:26'28.599 |
| Pole time | 1'14.320 |
| Pole driver | Kimi Räikkönen |
| Pole constructor | McLaren-Mercedes |
| Fastest lap | 1'14.873 |
| Fastest lap driver | Kimi Räikkönen |
| Fastest lap constructor | McLaren-Mercedes |
The German Grand Prix (Großer Preis von Deutschland) is an automobile race, part of the Formula One World Championship.
In 1907, Germany staged the first of the Kaiserpreis races at the Taunus Circuit, with entries limited to touring cars with engines of less than eight litres. A precusor to the German Grand Prix, the first race was won by Italian Felice Nazzaro in a Fiat.
The first national event in German Grand Prix motor racing came to the Automobil Verkehrs und Übungs-Straße AVUS race course in southwest Berlin in 1926 as a sports car race. It became an official Grand Prix event in 1929. The first race at the AVUS track, in heavy rain, was won by native son, Rudolf Caracciola, a feat that no other German driver would accomplish until Michael Schumacher in 1995. The first 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 again until 1959.
On June 19, 1927, the race site shifted to the 28 kilometre track at Nürburgring, where it would stay until the 1970s when it began rotating with Hockenheimring. The 1930 and 1933 German Grands Prix were both cancelled due to the country's economic problems. The German Grand Prix counted toward the European Championship from 1935 to 1939. Although there were often several Grand Prix races in Germany each year during these years, only the one at the Nurburgring was a Grande Epreuve.
Hockenheimring became the German Grand Prix's permanent home in 1986, whilst the Nürburgring went on to become the venue for the European Grand Prix.
Winners of the German Grand Prix
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