1956 German Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 7 of 8 in the 1956 Formula One season | |||
Nürburgring layout
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| Date | 5 August 1956 | ||
| Official name | XVIII Großer Preis von Deutschland | ||
| Location | Nürburgring, Nürburg, West Germany | ||
| Course | Permanent road course | ||
| Course length | 22.810 km (14.173 mi) | ||
| Distance | 22 laps, 501.820 km (311.806 mi) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||
| Time | 9:51.2 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Juan Manuel Fangio
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Ferrari | |
| Time | 9:41.6 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Ferrari | ||
| Second | Maserati | ||
| Third | Maserati | ||
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The 1956 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 5 August 1956 at Nürburgring. It was the seventh round of the 1956 World Drivers' Championship.
Forty-five-year-old Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio won the race for Ferrari, and broke Hermann Lang's 17-year-old lap record, set in a Mercedes. Present at the event was 18-year old Juan Carlos, later King of Spain, in support of his relative Alfonso de Portago.
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