The 1953 German Grand Prix was Round 7 of the 1953 Formula 1 World Championship. The event was held at Nürburgring in Germany on Sunday, 2 August 1953. Alberto Ascari started on pole position for Ferrari and his team-mate Nino Farina was the race winner.
1953 German Grand Prix Race Result
| Pos. | No. | Driver | Nationality | Team | Tyre | Laps | Race Time | Gap | Interval | Best Lap | Lap | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | Nino Farina | Italy | Ferrari | Pirelli | 18 | 3:02:25.000 | - | - | 8 | ||
| 2 | 5 | Juan Manuel Fangio | Argentina | Maserati | Pirelli | 18 | 3:03:29.000 | +1:04.000 | +1:04.000 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Mike Hawthorn | Great Britain | Ferrari | Pirelli | 18 | 3:04:08.600 | +1:43.600 | +39.600 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 7 | Felice Bonetto | Italy | Maserati | Pirelli | 18 | 3:11:13.600 | +8:48.600 | +7:05.000 | 3 | ||
| 5 | 17 | Emmanuel de Graffenried | Switzerland | Maserati | Pirelli | 17 | 1 lap | 1 lap | 2 | |||
| 6 | 19 | Stirling Moss | Great Britain | Cooper Alta | 17 | 1 lap | ||||||
| 7 | 18 | Jacques Swaters | Belgium | Ferrari | 17 | 1 lap | ||||||
| 8 | 1 | Alberto Ascari | Italy | Ferrari | Pirelli | 17 | 1 | |||||
| Luigi Villoresi | Italy | |||||||||||
| 9 | 31 | Hans Herrmann | Germany | Veritas | 17 | 1 lap | ||||||
| 10 | 20 | Louis Rosier | France | Ferrari | Pirelli | 17 | 1 lap | |||||
| 11 | 40 | Rodney Nuckey | Great Britain | Cooper Bristol | 16 | 2 laps | 1 lap | |||||
| 12 | 24 | Theo Helfrich | Germany | Veritas | 16 | 2 laps | ||||||
| 13 | 16 | Kenneth McAlpine | Great Britain | Connaught Lea Francis | 16 | 2 laps | ||||||
| 14 | 36 | Rudolf Krause | Germany | BMW | 16 | 2 laps | ||||||
| 15 | 37 | Ernst Klodwig | Germany | BMW | 15 | 3 laps | 1 lap | |||||
| 16 | 22 | Wolfgang Seidel | Germany | Veritas | 14 | 4 laps | 1 lap | |||||
| DNF | 4 | Luigi Villoresi | Italy | Ferrari | Pirelli | 10 | 9:56.000 | 12 | ||||
| Alberto Ascari | Italy | 5 | ||||||||||
| DNF | 38 | Alan Brown | Great Britain | Cooper | 15 | |||||||
| DNF | 8 | Onofre Marimon | Argentina | Maserati | Pirelli | 13 | ||||||
| DNF | 35 | Edgar Barth | Germany | EMW | 12 | |||||||
| DNF | 12 | Johnny Claes | Belgium | Connaught Lea Francis | 12 | |||||||
| DNF | 26 | Oswald Karch | Germany | Veritas | 10 | |||||||
| DNF | 23 | Willi Heeks | Germany | Veritas | 8 | |||||||
| DNF | 9 | Jean Behra | France | Gordini | 7 | |||||||
| DNF | 11 | Harry Schell | United States | Gordini | 6 | |||||||
| DNF | 14 | Prince Bira | Thailand | Connaught Lea Francis | 6 | |||||||
| DNF | 28 | Theo Fitzau | Germany | AFM BMW | 3 | |||||||
| DNF | 34 | Kurt Adolff | Germany | Ferrari | 3 | |||||||
| DNF | 41 | Günther Bechem | Germany | AFM BMW | 2 | |||||||
| DNF | 10 | Maurice Trintignant | France | Gordini | 1 | |||||||
| DNF | 15 | Roy Salvadori | Great Britain | Connaught Lea Francis | 1 | |||||||
| DNF | 32 | Erwin Bauer | Germany | Veritas | 1 | |||||||
| DNF | 21 | Hans Von Stuck | Germany | AFM Bristol | 0 | |||||||
| DNF | 30 | Ernst Loof | Germany | Veritas | 0 | |||||||
| DNS | 6 | Jose Froilan Gonzalez | Argentina | Maserati | 0 |