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The 1957 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 4 August 1957 at N rburgring. It was the sixth round of the 1957 World Drivers' Championship. The 22 lap race was won by Juan Manuel Fangio, and is often cited as one of the greatest victories in racing history. Fangio's 4th victory out of 7 mainly contested races in the season (excluding the Indianapolis 500), plus with the amount of points he had in the season (34 to Luigi Musso's 16) and with 2 races left, his victory at the N rburgring won him his 5th World Championship title. Fangio had taken notice of the tire and fuel-level selection of the Ferrari drivers, and realized they were probably going to run the entire race without a pit stop. Fangio decided he would use softer tires, and only a half tank of fuel. This would allow the car to take corners faster, but also require a pit stop. Fangio took his pit stop on lap 13, in 1st place, and 30 seconds ahead of Hawthorn and Collins. The pit stop was a disaster, the pit crew had trouble removing one of the wheels. Fangio left the pit lane in 3rd place, and 48 seconds behind Collins who was in 2nd place. Over the next 10 laps, Fangio broke and rebroke the lap record 9 times (7 of the records were in successive laps, and he took a mind-boggling 15.5 seconds off Hawthorn's lead in the first lap, then another 8.5 seconds in the next lap). Early in the 21st lap, Fangio went on the inside of the left corner at the ESSO Terrasse taking 2nd place from Collins. Late in the 21st lap, during a left corner, Fangio cut past Hawthorn on the inside of the corner, with only his right tires on the track and his left tires on the grass. Fangio maintained his lead, but not easily, as Hawthorn fought back, nearly overtaking Fangio at a few corners, but to no avail, and Fangio won the race. After the race, Fangio commented, "I have never driven that quickly before in my life and I don't think I will ever be able to do it again". Later on, Fangio was also quoted as saying: "N rburgring was my favourite track. I fell totally in love with it and I believe that on that day in 1957 I finally managed to master it. It was as if I had screwed all the secrets out of it and got to know it once and for all. . . For two days I couldn t sleep, still making those leaps in the dark on those curves where I had never before had the courage to push things so far"[1] To increase participation, the organizers opened the field to Formula 2 cars. The two races were run at the same time but the Formula 2 entries (shown in yellow) were not eligible for World Championship points and some sources don t consider these starts in career stats.
Classification Notes Drivers' Championship standings after the race - Note: Only the top five positions are included.
References ca:Gran Premi d'Alemanya del 1957 es:Anexo:Gran Premio de Alemania de 1957 fr:Grand Prix automobile d'Allemagne 1957 it:Gran Premio di Germania 1957 hu:1957-es Formula 1 n met nagyd j nl:Grand Prix Formule 1 van Duitsland 1957 pl:Formu a 1 - Grand Prix Niemiec 1957 pt:Grande Pr mio da Alemanha de 1957 (F rmula 1) ru: - 1957 sl:Velika nagrada Nem ije 1957 fi:Saksan Grand Prix 1957 sv:Tysklands Grand Prix 1957 uk: -1 - 1957
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