02 Aug 1953 German Grand Prix
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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. The result of this Grand Prix sealed the outcome of the 1953 Drivers’ Championship and Ascari won the title for the second and last time.
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 |