Germany 1953: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	Ascari	Ferrari	9:59.800
2	Fangio	Maserati	10:03.700	+3.900
3	Farina	Ferrari	10:04.100	+4.300
4	Hawthorn	Ferrari	10:12.600	+12.800
5	Trintignant	Gordini	10:21.700	+21.900
6	Villoresi	Ferrari	10:22.800	+23.000
7	Bonetto	Maserati	10:40.800	+41.000
8	Marimón	Maserati	10:41.000	+41.200
9	Behra	Gordini	10:45.500	+45.700
10	Schell	Gordini	10:46.200	+46.400
11	De Graffenried	Maserati	10:46.600	+46.800
12	Moss	Cooper	10:48.300	+48.500
13	Salvadori	Connaught	10:57.500	+57.700
14	Herrmann	Veritas	10:59.800	+1:00.000
15	Bhanudej	Connaught	11:02.100	+1:02.300
16	McAlpine	Connaught	11:07.300	+1:07.500
17	Brown	Cooper	11:08.700	+1:08.900
18	Heeks	Veritas	11:18.000	+1:18.200
19	Swaters	Ferrari	11:18.900	+1:19.100
20	Nuckey	Cooper	11:22.100	+1:22.300
21	Fitzau	AFM	11:23.400	+1:23.600
22	Rosier	Ferrari	11:27.400	+1:27.600
23	Stuck	AFM	11:37.200	+1:37.400
24	Barth	EMW	11:40.800	+1:41.000
25	Claes	Connaught	11:45.500	+1:45.700
26	Krause	Greifzu	11:49.500	+1:49.700
27	Adolff	Ferrari	11:53.100	+1:53.300
28	Helfrich	Veritas	11:56.300	+1:56.500
29	Seidel	Veritas	11:59.300	+1:59.500
30	Bechem	AFM	12:13.300	+2:13.500
31	Loof	Veritas	12:16.800	+2:17.000
32	Klodwig	Heck	12:24.600	+2:24.800
33	Bauer	Veritas
34	Karch	Veritas
35	Glöckler	Cooper

Gap to the fastest time in the last session the driver took part in. Yellow: fastest time of the session.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Laps	Gap	Engine	Tyres
1	Nino Farina	Ferrari	3	18	3:02:25.000	Ferrari	Pirelli
2	Juan Manuel Fangio	Maserati	2	18	+1:04.000	Maserati	Pirelli
3	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	4	18	+1:43.600	Ferrari	Pirelli
4	Felice Bonetto	Maserati	7	18	+8:48.600	Maserati	Pirelli
5	Emmanuel de Graffenried	Maserati	11	17	+1 lap	Maserati	Pirelli
6	Stirling Moss	Cooper	12	17	+1 lap	Alta	Dunlop
7	Jacques Swaters	Ferrari	19	17	+1 lap	Ferrari	Englebert
8	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari	1	17	+1 lap	Ferrari	Pirelli
8	Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari	-			Ferrari	Pirelli
9	Hans Herrmann	Veritas	14	17	+1 lap	Veritas	Dunlop
10	Louis Rosier	Ferrari	22	17	+1 lap	Ferrari	Dunlop
11	Rodney Nuckey	Cooper	20	16	+2 laps	Bristol	Dunlop
12	Theo Helfrich	Veritas	28	16	+2 laps	Veritas	Dunlop
13	Kenneth McAlpine	Connaught	16	16	+2 laps	Lea Francis	Dunlop
14	Rudolf Krause	Greifzu	26	16	+2 laps	BMW	Dunlop
15	Ernst Klodwig	Heck	32	15	+3 laps	BMW	Dunlop
16	Wolfgang Seidel	Veritas	29	14	+4 laps	Veritas	Dunlop
DNF	Luigi Villoresi	Ferrari	6	15	Engine	Ferrari	Pirelli
DNF	Alberto AscariFastest lap	Ferrari	-			Ferrari	Pirelli
DNF	Alan Brown	Cooper	17	15	Engine	Bristol	Dunlop
DNF	Onofre Marimón	Maserati	8	13	Suspension	Maserati	Pirelli
DNF	Johnny Claes	Connaught	25	12	Engine	Lea Francis	Englebert
DNF	Edgar Barth	EMW	24	12	Exhaust	EMW	Dunlop
DNF	Oswald Karch	Veritas	34	10	Engine	Veritas	Dunlop
DNF	Willi Heeks	Veritas	18	8	Transmission	Veritas	Dunlop
DNF	Jean Behra	Gordini	9	7	Gearbox	Gordini	Englebert
DNF	Harry Schell	Gordini	10	6	Engine	Gordini	Englebert
DNF	Birabongse Bhanudej	Connaught	15	6	Suspension	Lea Francis	Dunlop
DNF	Theo Fitzau	AFM	21	3	Engine	BMW	Dunlop
DNF	Kurt Adolff	Ferrari	27	3	Transmission	Ferrari	Pirelli
DNF	Karl-Günther Bechem	AFM	30	2	Engine	BMW	Dunlop
DNF	Roy Salvadori	Connaught	13	1	Engine	Lea Francis	Dunlop
DNF	Erwin Bauer	Veritas	33	1	Engine	Veritas	Dunlop
DNF	Maurice Trintignant	Gordini	5	1	Differential	Gordini	Englebert
DNF	Hans Stuck	AFM	23	0	Engine	Bristol	Dunlop
DNF	Ernst Loof	Veritas	31	0	Fuel pump	Veritas	Dunlop
DNS	Helm Glöckler	Cooper	-		Engine	Bristol	Dunlop

Race

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Places gained

Klodwig32→15+17
Helfrich28→12+16
Seidel29→16+13
Swaters19→7+12
Rosier22→10+12
Krause26→14+12
Nuckey20→11+9
De Graffenried11→5+6
Moss12→6+6
Herrmann14→9+5
Bonetto7→4+3
McAlpine16→13+3
Farina3→1+2
Hawthorn4→3+1
Fangio2→20
Ascari1→8-7

PL: started from the pit lane. Retired drivers are listed below.

Teammate battles

Retirements

VilloresiEngineFerrari
BrownEngineCooper
MarimónSuspensionMaserati
ClaesEngineConnaught
BarthExhaustEMW
KarchEngineVeritas
HeeksTransmissionVeritas
BehraGearboxGordini
SchellEngineGordini
BhanudejSuspensionConnaught
FitzauEngineAFM
AdolffTransmissionFerrari
BechemEngineAFM
SalvadoriEngineConnaught
BauerEngineVeritas
TrintignantDifferentialGordini
StuckEngineAFM
LoofFuel pumpVeritas
GlöcklerEngineCooper

This race in history

2 races here since 1951Won from pole: 2 of 2

Most wins here

2 Alberto Ascari

Previous winners here

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