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 | Officine Alfieri Maserati |
Piero Taruffi Harry Schell Jean Behra Stirling Moss |
Maserati 300S | 44 | ||
2 | S + 2.0 | 1 | Scuderia Ferrari |
Juan Manuel Fangio Eugenio Castellotti |
Ferrari 860 Monza | 44 | ||
3 | S + 2.0 | 4th | Scuderia Ferrari |
Phil Hill Ken Wharton Alfonso de Portago Olivier Gendebien |
Ferrari 290MM | 44 | ||
4th | S 1.5 | 21st | Porsche |
Wolfgang von Trips Umberto Maglioli |
Porsche 550RS | 44 | ||
5 | S + 2.0 | 9 | David Brown |
Peter Collins Tony Brooks |
Aston Martin DB3S | 43 | ||
6th | S 1.5 | 20th | Porsche |
Richard von Frankenberg Hans Herrmann |
Porsche 550RS | 44 | ||
7th | S 1.5 | 26th | VEB |
Edgar Barth Arthur Rosenhammer |
AWE R3 / 55 | 43 | ||
8th | GT / T + 2.0 | 56 | Bengt Martenson |
Bengt Martenson Wittigo von Einsiedel |
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL | 44 | ||
9 | GT / T 2.0 | 61 | Max Nathan |
Max Nathan Gert Kaiser
|
Porsche 356 Carrera | 44 | ||
10 | GT / T 2.0 | 65 | Helmut Schulze |
Helmut Schulze Joaquim Felipe Nogueira
|
Porsche 356 Carrera | 44 | ||
11 | GT / T 1.3 | 81 | Joakim Bonnier |
Joakim Bonnier Herbert MacKay-Fraser |
Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 43 | ||
12 | GT / T 1.3 | 83 | Walter Ringgenberg |
Walter Ringgenberg Heini Walter |
Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 43 | ||
13 | SerS 1.5 | 43 | Friedrich Kretschmann |
Friedrich Kretschmann Sepp Liebl
|
Porsche 550 Spyder | 43 | ||
14th | GT / T 1.3 | 87 | Piero Carini |
Piero Carini Franco Bordoni-Bisleri |
Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 42 | ||
15th | GT / T 2.0 | 63 | Hans-Georg Plaut |
Helmut Zick Hans-Georg Plaut
|
Porsche 356 Carrera | 42 | ||
16 | GT / T 1.3 | 88 | Gilberte Thirion |
Gilberte Thirion Ada Pace |
Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 42 | ||
17th | GT / T + 2.0 | 53 | Rainer Günzler |
Rainer Günzler Helmut Retter
|
Mercedes-Benz 220 S. | 42 | ||
18th | GT / T 1.3 | 86 | Adolf-Werner Lang |
Adolf-Werner Lang Kurt Kuhnke |
Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 41 | ||
19th | GT / T 1.3 | 85 | Kurt Zeller |
Kurt Zeller Wolfgang Bieling
|
Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 40 | ||
20th | GT / T 2.0 | 64 | Wilhelm Wittmann |
Wilhelm Wittmann Walter Hampel
|
Porsche 356 1600S | 40 | ||
21st | GT / T 1.3 | 76 | Helmut Busch |
Helmut Busch Horst Bös
|
Porsche 356 | 40 | ||
22nd | GT / T 1.3 | 77 | Joseph Greger |
Joseph Greger Harald von Saucken
|
Porsche 356 | 40 | ||
23 | GT / T 1.3 | 78 | Hartmuth Oesterle |
Hartmuth Oesterle Siegfried Günther
|
Porsche 356 | 40 | ||
24 | SerS 1.5 | 45 | Gotfrid Köchert |
Mathieu Hezemans Carel Godin de Beaufort |
Porsche 550 Spyder | 38 | ||
25th | GT / T 1.3 | 72 | Helmut Deutenberg |
Helmut Deutenberg Heinz-Gerd Jäger
|
Porsche 356 | 38 | ||
26th | GT / T 1.3 | 74 | Karl Falk |
Karl Falk Albert Joch
|
Porsche 356 | 38 | ||
Disqualified | ||||||||
27 | S 1.5 | 33 | Beels Racing |
Hans Tak Henk van Zalinge
|
Maserati 150S | 22nd | ||
28 | S + 2.0 | 2 | Scuderia Ferrari |
Alfonso de Portago Olivier Gendebien
|
Ferrari 860 Monza | 9 | ||
29 | SerS 1.5 | 46 | Dick Fitzwilliam |
Dick Fitzwilliam Robin Carnegie
|
MGA | |||
Failed | ||||||||
30th | S + 2.0 | 7th | Jaguar Cars Ltd. |
Mike Hawthorn Desmond Titterington |
Jaguar D-Type | 43 | ||
31 | S + 2.0 | 10 | David Brown |
Peter Walker Roy Salvadori |
Aston Martin DB3S | 41 | ||
32 | S 1.5 | 37 | VEB |
Paul Thiel Egon Binner
|
AWE R3 / 55 | 29 | ||
33 | S 1.5 | 31 | Monte Carlo Sports |
Louis Chiron Luigi Villoresi |
Osca MT4 1500 | 26th | ||
34 | S 1.5 | 38 | Isabelle Haskell |
Carlo Tomasi Alejandro de Tomaso |
Maserati 150S | 25th | ||
35 | S + 2.0 | 5 | Officine Alfieri Maserati |
Stirling Moss Jean Behra
|
Maserati 300S | 19th | ||
36 | S + 2.0 | 12 | Officine Alfieri Maserati |
Cesare Perdisa Robert Manzon |
Maserati 350S | 12 | ||
37 | S + 2.0 | 8T | Jaguar Cars Ltd. |
Paul Brother Duncan Hamilton |
Jaguar D-Type | 7th | ||
38 | S 1.5 | 29 | Officine Alfieri Maserati |
Francesco Giardini André Pilette |
Maserati 150S | 7th | ||
39 | S + 2.0 | 3 | Scuderia Ferrari |
Luigi Musso Maurice Trintignant |
Ferrari 290MM | 4th | ||
40 | S 1.5 | 37 | Isabelle Haskell |
Giuseppe Musso Walter Monaco
|
Maserati 150S | 3 | ||
41 | S 1.5 | 34 | Michael May |
Michael May Pierre May
|
Porsche 550 Spyder | |||
42 | S 1.5 | 36 | Karl Busch |
Karl Busch Karl Schwaneberg
|
Porsche 550 Spyder | |||
43 | SerS 1.5 | 40 | Theo Helfrich |
Theo Helfrich Peter Nöcker |
Porsche 550 Spyder | |||
44 | SerS 1.5 | 41 | Wolfgang Seidel |
Wolfgang Seidel Helm Glöckler |
Porsche 550 Spyder | |||
45 | SerS 1.5 | 47 | William Buff |
William Buff Gotfrid Köchert |
Porsche 550 Spyder | |||
46 | GT / T + 2.0 | 50 | Fritz Riess |
Fritz Riess Friedrich Victor Rolff |
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL | |||
47 | GT / T + 2.0 | 52 | Erwin Bauer |
Erwin Bauer Willi Heeks |
Mercedes-Benz 220 S. | |||
48 | GT / T + 2.0 | 52 | Günther Isenbügel |
Günther Isenbügel Helmut Rathjen
|
Ford Thunderbird | |||
49 | GT / T 2.0 | 62 | Ludwig Blendl |
Ludwig Blendl Dieter Lissmann
|
Porsche 356 Carrera | |||
50 | GT / T 2.0 | 67 | pack |
Heini Buess Franz Hammernick
|
Porsche 356 1500 Super | |||
51 | GT / T 1.3 | 70 | Richard Trenkel |
Richard Trenkel Helmut Niedermayr |
Porsche 356 | |||
52 | GT / T 1.3 | 71 | Erich Hofmann |
Paul-Ernst Straehle Paul Denk
|
Porsche 356 | |||
53 | GT / T 1.3 | 73 | Josef Jeser |
Josef Jeser Manfred Elmenhorst
|
Porsche 356 | |||
54 | GT / T 1.3 | 75 | Alfred Kling |
Alfred Kling Edmund Graf
|
Porsche 356 | |||
55 | GT / T 1.3 | 80 | Helmut Felder |
Helmut Felder Heinz Endemann
|
Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | |||
56 | GT / T 1.3 | 82 | pack |
Marcel Stern Louis Noverraz
|
Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | |||
57 | GT / T 1.3 | 84 | Mediolanum |
Alfranco Pagani Pietro Cagnana
|
Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | |||
Not started | ||||||||
58 | SerS 1.5 | 44 | Ecurie Francorchamps |
Christian Goethal's Freddy Rousselle |
Porsche 550 Spyder | 1 | ||
59 | GT / T + 2.0 | T | Scuderia Ferrari |
Peter Collins Luigi Musso Mike Hawthorn Juan Manuel Fangio
|
Ferrari 250 GT | 2 | ||
60 | S + 2.0 | T | Officine Alfieri Maserati | Piero Taruffi | Maserati 350S | 3 | ||
61 | S + 2.0 | T | Scuderia Ferrari | Eugenio Castellotti | Ferrari 860 Monza | 4th | ||
62 | S + 2.0 | 8th | Jaguar Cars Ltd. |
Paul Brother Duncan Hamilton
|
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
63 | GT / T 1.3 | Hartmuth Oesterle | Siegfried Günther | Porsche 356 | |
64 | S + 2.0 | 11 | John de Puy |
Ken Wharton Emmanuel de Graffenried |
Maserati 300S |
65 | S 1.5 | 30th | Officine Alfieri Maserati |
Francesco Giardini André Pilette
|
Maserati 150S |
66 | S 1.5 | 35 | Franco-Brittanique |
Georges Trouis Harry Merkel |
1100 |
67 | SerS 1.5 | 42 | Ernst Lautenschlager |
Ernst Lautenschlager Heinz Fischer
|
Porsche 550 Spyder |
68 | GT / T + 2.0 | 54 | Hans-Joachim Zimmer |
Hans-Joachim Zimmer Heinz Jacobi
|
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL |
69 | GT / T + 2.0 | 55 | Armando Zampiero | Armando Zampiero | Mercedes-Benz 300 SL |
70 | GT / T 2.0 | 60 | Rolf-Friedrich Gotze |
Rolf-Friedrich Gotze Heinrich Sauter
|
Porsche 356 Carrera |
71 | GT / T 2.0 | 66 | Ernst Seiler |
Ernst Seiler Hans Wirz
|
Porsche 356 Carrera |
72 | GT / T 2.0 | 68 | Olof Persson |
Olof Persson Harald Kronegard
|
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 |