1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1956
The second 1000 km race on the Nürburgring , also the 2nd International ADAC 1000 km race, world championship run for sports cars on the Nürburgring , took place on May 27, 1956 on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring and was the fourth round of the sports car world championship of that year .
Before the race
The World Sportscar Championship 1956 started in January this year with the 1000 km Buenos Aires that with a victory by Stirling Moss and Carlos Menditeguy on a plant - Maserati 300S ended. There were two other world championship events up to race day at the Nürburgring. The Sebring 12-hour race in March was won by Juan Manuel Fangio and Eugenio Castellotti in the 860 Monza registered by Scuderia Ferrari . The third round was the Mille Miglia , which, unlike the Le Mans 24-hour race, was also part of the 1956 world championship. The 1000 mile race across Italy brought Ferrari a five-fold victory, led by Castellotti in the Ferrari 290MM .
In the world championship, Ferrari led with 22 points ahead of Maserati with 10.
The race
On the day of the race, 70,000 spectators came to watch the race. It was warm and dry May weather. There were three training units in advance. The times achieved there all counted towards qualifying for the race. Juan Manuel Fangio achieved the best time in a Ferrari 860 Monza with 10: 03.600 minutes and started from pole position . Fangio's team-mate was again Castellotti. Behind the duo were team mates Luigi Musso / Maurice Trintignant and Phil Hill / Ken Wharton (Ferrari 290MM). At the fourth training point was the best Maserati , the 300S from Stirling Moss and Jean Behra . Behind it followed the work - Jaguar D-Type of Mike Hawthorn and Desmond Titterington .
The first half of the 44-lap race was led by Stirling Moss and Jean Behra in the Maserati. The Ferrari of Fangio and Castellotti followed closely behind. After 19 laps, Behra pitted with a broken rear axle and the race seemed over for him and Stirling Moss. However, Maserati race director Nello Ugolini brought the second works 300S, which was driven by Piero Taruffi and Harry Schell in third place in the overall standings, via a signal to the pits and handed the car over to Moss and Behra, who continued to drive it. After the 37th lap, with seven laps to go, Fangio was in the lead with a lead of 54 seconds over Moss. In the following laps, Moss was able to gradually reduce the gap. When Fangio came to the pits on lap 40 to refuel, Moss took the lead again and took the win for Maserati with a margin of 26 seconds over Fangio and Castellotti.
After the arrival of the winner, the race was not over for some of the drivers. Because in order to win the respective racing classes, a team had to have completed the 44-lap distance according to the regulations at the time. In addition, the drivers and their vehicles were allowed to stay on the track a maximum of one hour longer than the winning team.
It may seem incomprehensible that the Hawthorn / Titterington Jaguar was not rated after it had stopped in the 44th or last lap with a broken drive shaft, but had covered the same distance as the fifth-placed. However, the rules stipulated that only vehicles that had reached the finish after the winner and were flagged were considered. Had it not been for the retirement, Hawthorn, who triggered the 1955 Le Mans disaster , would probably have been disqualified. Because he had overtaken illegally several times and had even run into a private Porsche 356 during such a maneuver, which was still able to continue its race and won the GT class up to 2 liters displacement.
Porsche was the most strongly represented brand. In addition to two Porsche 550 RSs used by the Porsche factory, 22 private teams with six Porsche 550 Spyder and 16 Porsche 356 and 356 Carrera were at the start. The works car with Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips and Umberto Maglioli finished fourth in the overall classification with 44 laps in 8: 01: 46.00 hours and won the sports car class up to 1.5-liter displacement; the works drivers Richard von Frankenberg and Hans Herrmann took sixth place overall.
The East German team Edgar Barth / Arthur Rosenhammer on AWE came in seventh . The AWE racing collective reduced the engine power of the two cars registered for the Nürburgring in order to increase reliability. Nevertheless, Thiel / Binner retired with engine failure.
Results
Final ranking
Item | class | No. | team | driver | vehicle | Round | ||
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1 | S + 2.0 | 6th |
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Maserati 300S | 44 | ||
2 | S + 2.0 | 1 |
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Ferrari 860 Monza | 44 | ||
3 | S + 2.0 | 4th |
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Ferrari 290MM | 44 | ||
4th | S 1.5 | 21st |
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Porsche 550RS | 44 | ||
5 | S + 2.0 | 9 |
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Aston Martin DB3S | 43 | ||
6th | S 1.5 | 20th |
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Porsche 550RS | 44 | ||
7th | S 1.5 | 26th |
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AWE R3 / 55 | 43 | ||
8th | GT / T + 2.0 | 56 |
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Mercedes-Benz 300 SL | 44 | ||
9 | GT / T 2.0 | 61 |
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Porsche 356 Carrera | 44 | ||
10 | GT / T 2.0 | 65 |
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Porsche 356 Carrera | 44 | ||
11 | GT / T 1.3 | 81 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 43 | ||
12 | GT / T 1.3 | 83 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 43 | ||
13 | SerS 1.5 | 43 |
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Porsche 550 Spyder | 43 | ||
14th | GT / T 1.3 | 87 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 42 | ||
15th | GT / T 2.0 | 63 |
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Porsche 356 Carrera | 42 | ||
16 | GT / T 1.3 | 88 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 42 | ||
17th | GT / T + 2.0 | 53 |
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Mercedes-Benz 220 S. | 42 | ||
18th | GT / T 1.3 | 86 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 41 | ||
19th | GT / T 1.3 | 85 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 40 | ||
20th | GT / T 2.0 | 64 |
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Porsche 356 1600S | 40 | ||
21st | GT / T 1.3 | 76 |
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Porsche 356 | 40 | ||
22nd | GT / T 1.3 | 77 |
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Porsche 356 | 40 | ||
23 | GT / T 1.3 | 78 |
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Porsche 356 | 40 | ||
24 | SerS 1.5 | 45 |
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Porsche 550 Spyder | 38 | ||
25th | GT / T 1.3 | 72 |
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Porsche 356 | 38 | ||
26th | GT / T 1.3 | 74 |
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Porsche 356 | 38 | ||
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27 | S 1.5 | 33 |
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Maserati 150S | 22nd | ||
28 | S + 2.0 | 2 |
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Ferrari 860 Monza | 9 | ||
29 | SerS 1.5 | 46 |
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30th | S + 2.0 | 7th |
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Jaguar D-Type | 43 | ||
31 | S + 2.0 | 10 |
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Aston Martin DB3S | 41 | ||
32 | S 1.5 | 37 |
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AWE R3 / 55 | 29 | ||
33 | S 1.5 | 31 |
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Osca MT4 1500 | 26th | ||
34 | S 1.5 | 38 |
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Maserati 150S | 25th | ||
35 | S + 2.0 | 5 |
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Maserati 300S | 19th | ||
36 | S + 2.0 | 12 |
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Maserati 350S | 12 | ||
37 | S + 2.0 | 8T |
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Jaguar D-Type | 7th | ||
38 | S 1.5 | 29 |
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Maserati 150S | 7th | ||
39 | S + 2.0 | 3 |
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Ferrari 290MM | 4th | ||
40 | S 1.5 | 37 |
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Maserati 150S | 3 | ||
41 | S 1.5 | 34 |
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Porsche 550 Spyder | |||
42 | S 1.5 | 36 |
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Porsche 550 Spyder | |||
43 | SerS 1.5 | 40 |
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Porsche 550 Spyder | |||
44 | SerS 1.5 | 41 |
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Porsche 550 Spyder | |||
45 | SerS 1.5 | 47 |
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46 | GT / T + 2.0 | 50 |
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Mercedes-Benz 300 SL | |||
47 | GT / T + 2.0 | 52 |
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Mercedes-Benz 220 S. | |||
48 | GT / T + 2.0 | 52 |
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Ford Thunderbird | |||
49 | GT / T 2.0 | 62 |
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Porsche 356 Carrera | |||
50 | GT / T 2.0 | 67 |
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Porsche 356 1500 Super | |||
51 | GT / T 1.3 | 70 |
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Porsche 356 | |||
52 | GT / T 1.3 | 71 |
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53 | GT / T 1.3 | 73 |
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54 | GT / T 1.3 | 75 |
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55 | GT / T 1.3 | 80 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | |||
56 | GT / T 1.3 | 82 |
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57 | GT / T 1.3 | 84 |
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58 | SerS 1.5 | 44 |
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Porsche 550 Spyder | 1 | ||
59 | GT / T + 2.0 | T |
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Ferrari 250 GT | 2 | ||
60 | S + 2.0 | T |
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Maserati 350S | 3 | ||
61 | S + 2.0 | T |
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Ferrari 860 Monza | 4th | ||
62 | S + 2.0 | 8th |
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Jaguar D-Type | 5 |
1 not started 2 training trolley 3 training trolley 4 training trolley 5 Accident during training
Only in the entry list
Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.
Item | class | No. | team | driver | chassis |
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63 | GT / T 1.3 |
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Porsche 356 | |
64 | S + 2.0 | 11 |
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Maserati 300S |
65 | S 1.5 | 30th |
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Maserati 150S |
66 | S 1.5 | 35 |
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67 | SerS 1.5 | 42 |
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Porsche 550 Spyder |
68 | GT / T + 2.0 | 54 |
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Mercedes-Benz 300 SL |
69 | GT / T + 2.0 | 55 |
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Mercedes-Benz 300 SL |
70 | GT / T 2.0 | 60 |
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Porsche 356 Carrera |
71 | GT / T 2.0 | 66 |
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Porsche 356 Carrera |
72 | GT / T 2.0 | 68 |
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Porsche 356 Carrera |
Class winner
Racing data
- Registered: 72
- Started: 57
- Rated: 29
- Race classes: 6
- Spectators: 70,000
- Race day weather: warm and dry
- Route length: 22.810 km
- Driving time of the winning team: 7: 43: 54,500 hours
- Total laps of the winning team: 44
- Total distance of the winning team: 1003.640 km
- Winner's average: 129.807 km / h
- Pole position: Juan Manuel Fangio - Ferrari 860 Monza (# 1) - 10: 03.600 = 136.044 km / h
- Fastest race lap: Juan Manuel Fangio - Ferrari 860 Monza (# 1) - 10: 05.300 = 135.662 km / h
- Racing series: 4th round of the 1956 World Sports Car Championship
- Racing series: 2nd round of the German Sports Car Championship in 1956
literature
- Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC 1000 km race. HEEL Verlag, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-89880-903-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC 1000 km race . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-89880-903-0 .
Predecessor race Mille Miglia 1956 |
Sports car world championship |
Successor 1000 km race in Kristianstad 1956 |