1953 German Grand Prix

The Grand Prix of Germany 1953 was held on August 2nd place at the Nurburgring and was the seventh of nine races of the Formula 1 season 1953.

Background

Before the start of the title defense of Ascari was almost fixed. Until then he had reached 33.5 of the 36 possible according to the rules in season points. Only Hawthorn and Fangio had, however, a minimal chance of the title, they should win all still be standing race while turning the fastest lap, Ascari maximum of 1 point achieved (no points at Fangio ), so Hawthorn came on 35 and Fangio on 34 points and could not catch him.

José González Froilán had been injured in a sports car race in Lisbon a week ago and fell for the rest of the season. While he was still on the entry list, but the Maserati team went to only three drivers ( Fangio, Marimon and Bonetto ). Ferrari was present with the regular drivers Ascari, Farina, Villoresi and Fangio. In addition to the factory teams of Connaught ( Bira, Salvadori, McAlpine ) and Gordini ( Trintignant, Behra, Schell) completed numerous va German privateer the field. A total of 34 responses arrived, but given the length of the track but no problem.

Training

In training only Ascari achieved a lap time of under 10 minutes, and thus secured the pole position ahead of Fangio, Farina and Hawthorn. Trintignant was ever a Maserati and Ferrari leave behind, finishing in fifth place in the second row. But his time was 22 seconds slower than the Ascaris, the last timed participants, Wolfgang Seidel in Veritas, took almost three minutes more than Ascari.

Race

The start Fangio won, but Ascari was able to overtake him in the course of the first round and end this with a lead of 10 seconds on the chasing pack. The Fangio lying in second place was attacked by Hawthorn. However, the two fought in the sequence a duel, in which the times, sometimes the other was a forward, at the end of a round, always Hawthorn. The race seemed to become a frequently seen in the past alone drive from Ascari, when he was heading the box from the fifth round on only three wheels. He had lost a wheel. Since he could not slow down well on the three wheels, he only came to a halt behind his box. The pushing back and the repair cost him 4 minutes. Now lay Hawthorn forward, Fangio still close behind. Through the duel between the two Farina was able to catch up to them and overtake both during the 8th round. Fangio succeeded in this round also walk past Hawthorn. This order remained unchanged until the finish. It was Farina's fifth and last victory in a World Championship race. Ascari was after his repairing make up four places, but his car after the repair was bad and so he traded him at the end of the ninth round against the car Villoresis. With this car he turned the fastest lap ( 9:56,0 ), but on lap 15 he had to turn it off with engine failure at the box. Still, he could celebrate the title defense at the end of the race, because none of his remaining rivals had won the race.

Message list

Classification

Line-up

Race results

Standings after the race

In 1953 the scoring according to the following scheme:

• It included only the four best results from nine races. String results are shown in brackets.
• The figures marked with * include the point for the fastest lap.
• Same color fields marked point to shared vehicles.