1926 German Grand Prix

1926 German Grand Prix
Race details
Date	11 July 1926
Official name	I Großer Preis von Deutschland
Location	AVUS, Berlin, Germany
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	19.565 km (12.157 mi)
Distance	20 laps, 391.308 km (243.148 mi)
Fastest lap
Driver	Ferdinando Minoia	OM 665
Time	7'17.00
Podium
First	Rudolf Caracciola	Mercedes SS
Second	Christian Riecken	NAG
Third	Willy Cleer	Alfa-Romeo

The 1926 German Grand Prix was an auto race held at the AVUS track on 11 July 1926. It was the first ever German Grand Prix. The race was held in heavy rain, and was won by Germany's native son, Rudolf Caracciola.

After a series of the 1920s–1930s victories by Germans (Hans Stuck, Bernd Rosemeyer, and a few more by Caracciola), no other German driver would accomplish a German GP win until Michael Schumacher's victory in 1995 German Grand Prix.

The race was marred by an accident involving driver Adolf Rosenberger, whose car crashed into one of the marshals' huts, killing three people.

The German Grand Prix would not return to the AVUS track until 1959.

Classification

A look at the crowd

Winner Rudolf Caracciola in a parade lap

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	14	Rudolf Caracciola	Mercedes Monza	20	2:54'12.8
2	5	Christian Riecken	NAG	20	2:57'33.2
3	-	Willy Cleer	Alfa Romeo RLSS	20	3:00'16.8
4	-	Pierre Clause	Bignan	20	3:02'07.4
5	32	Georg Klöbe	NSU	20	3:07'27.0
6	-	Max zu Schaumburg Lippe	OM 665	20	3:10'57.4
7	-	Jakob Scholl	NSU	20	3:11'54.2
8	-	Franz Islinger	NSU	20	3:13'58.8
9	-	Hans Santner	OM 665	20	3:16'54.2
10	-	Josef Müller	NSU	20	3:18'25.4
11	-	Hans Bakatsch	Brennabor	19	+ 1 Lap
12	-	Reichstein	Brennabor	19	+ 1 Lap
13	-	Fritz Feldmann	Hansa	19	+ 1 Lap
14	-	Orska	NAG	19	+ 1 Lap
15	-	Fritz Mitzlaff	Brennabor	20	+ 1 Lap
16	-	Hugo Urban Emmerich	Talbot 70	19	+ 1 Lap
17	-	Max Wälti	Bugatti T22	19	+ 1 Lap
Ret	-	Adolf Rosenberger	Mercedes	7	Accident
Ret	-	Hans Berthold	NAG
Ret	-	Carl Deimann	Austro-Daimler
Ret	-	Ernst Hofer	Steiger
Ret	-	Hans Kolb	Bugatti T22
Ret	-	Josef Ludwig	Bugatti T22
Ret	-	Rudolf Breier	Bugatti T22
Ret	-	Ferdinando Minoia	OM 665
Ret	-	Jean Chassagne	Talbot 70		Accident
Ret	-	August Momberger	NSU
Ret	-	Georg Kimpel	Bugatti T22
Ret	-	Willy Loge	AGA
Ret	-	Hans Friedrich	Pluto-Amilcar
Ret	-	Adolf Mederer	Pluto-Amilcar		Accident
Ret	-	Georg Fielder	BF

Notes

• Fastest lap: Ferdinando Minoia 7'17.0