As part of the previous Grand Prix of Germany now know its history, year by year since its inception.
Historically, the Gordon Bennett Cup in 1904 or 1907, Kaiserpreis disputed both on the router circuit of Homburg are considered the first motorsport disputed in Germany. But the German race just enjoyed this status since the year 1926 in which a young German named Rudolf Caracciola scored an unexpected yet superb victory under a downpour on the ultra fast Avus circuit.
A year later opened a giant Nurburgring circuit located about 23 miles in the mountains of Eiffel on Nurburg castle which gives its name to the circuit. The enormous difficulty of the 177 curves that make up the Nurburgring and the extreme hardness of the pilots made the win in two consecutive or three alternatives receive the honor of being considered "Nurburgring-Maister." (Master of the Nurburgring).
Throughout history only mentioned Caracciola, Ascari, Fangio, Surtees, and Stewart achieved that distinction. But undoubtedly the most successful driver in the German Grand Prix was the local hero Rudolf Caracciola who won no fewer than six occasions. In its extreme difficulty and danger speak for only the high number of pilots killed in his path. Only in Formula-1 tests will remember Marimon, Collins, De Beaufort, Taylor and Mitter.
Unfortunately, in 1976 this legendary circuit was closed due to accident that killed the Austrian Niki Lauda but later run again on a caricature of itself. Fortunately, the original route still open to the public that can give a little money around.
The manager to take the witness was another ultra fast Hockenheim circuit on which among others killed one of the best drivers in the history of Scotland Jim Clark in a test of F-2 in 1968 and France's Patrick Depailler in 1980. But Hockenheim has been a major refurbishment in recent years seeing substantially reduced its path.
1951: After defeating them at Silverstone, Alberto Ascari is bending his knees to Alfa-Romeo powerhouse thanks to lower fuel consumption of his Ferrari. The team leader Juan Manuel Fangio Portello be content with second place.
1952: Having won the victory the previous year, the Italian Alberto Ascari became the new "Nurburgring" Meister "clinching the way the mathematical certainty of the world title. Teammates Farina, Fischer and Taruffi cuatripleta completed a history of Scuderia Ferrari.
1953: A puncture and the immediate loss of his right front tire made Alberto Ascari Ferrari had to cede the victory to his teammate, "Nino" Farina thus achieved its fifth and final victory in Great Awards.
1954: In the Workouts kills Argentina Onofre "Pinocchio" Marimon. His fellow Fangio Mieres Gonzales and pretend not to participate in the race as a sign of mourning, but eventually give in to pressure from their respective teams. Juan Manuel Fangio finally gives the best possible tribute to their unfortunate countryman clinching victory ahead Gonzales in the finals had to give up her career to Mike Hawthorn Ferrari.
1955: Because of the tragedy of the 24 Hours of Le Mans the German GP in 1955 was canceled.
1956: Piloting now to Ferrari, the Argentine ace Juan Manuel Fangio is imposed with great authority in front of his friend but now rival Stirling Moss Maserati team. To highlight the fourth-place finish by the English Francisco Godinho at the wheel of a semi-Maserati.
1957: The pilot demonstration Juan Manuel Fangio did that day at the Nurburgring is better than what we see in usual chronic.
1958: Tragic career in 1958 with the death of Briton Peter Collins determined to follow in the wake of the Vanwall of Tony Brooks winning future.
1959: Due to some refurbishment work on the Nurburgring, there is first and last time in GP scoring in the ultra-fast and dangerous Avus circuit. What's dangerous is evidenced by the terrible accident suffered by the German Hans Hermann and mortal suffered by the great French driver Jean Behra in a test of support Saturday morning. In a close race on both sleeves, Briton Tony Brooks was imposed ahead of his teammates Dan Gurney and Phil Hill in another triplet Ferrari team history.
1961: Piloting the private Lotus team of Rob Walker, Stirling Moss beat the odds against the mighty Ferrari team in the rain. Unfortunately, at that moment no one could imagine that this would be the last victory of the great British ace.
1962: Graham Hill obtained a tremendous victory that catapulted him to conquer the title world that year. John Surtees and Dan Gurney always shot less than three seconds away, but the star of the day was Jim Clark once again the author of a formidable comeback that led him to win the fourth place after a problem at startup in which came last.
1963: The new Ferrari driver John Surtees gets its first victory at the Nurburgring, while teammate Willie Mairesse suffered a massive accident that ends his career in the F-1.
1964: John Surtees repeated the victory the previous year, making it one of the "Meister Nurburgring." Highlight the debut of the Japanese team Honda and tragic death in practice of the sympathetic Dutchman Carel Godin de Beaufort.
1965: Jim Clark finally sign your name on the winners of the German Grand Prix, after a comfortable career that also broke the record for the "Pole-Position" in no less than 16 seconds.
1966: The veteran Australian Jack Brabham gets a tremendous victory that catapulted to the conquest of their third world title in a career marked by the fatal crash of Britain's John Taylor after a touch with the Matra-Ford of rookie Jacky Ickx one of the 9 cars F-2 invited to take part in the race.
1967: The New Zealander Denny Hulme gets an unexpected victory in front of his boss Jack Brabham, after the abandonment of the Dan Gurney Eagle that was the great ruler. But without a doubt, the revelation was the Belgian driver Jacky Ickx Matra that flying a F-2 achieved the third fastest time in practice and rolled with the lead pack most of the race.
1968: Many say that the German Grand Prix 1968 was the best race I made the Scot Jackie Stewart as under a deluge ahead at the finish line by more than 4 minutes of Graham Hill Lotus
1969: The Belgian Jacky Ickx is confirmed as an expert from the Nurburgring getting a tremendous victory after giving account of his great rival Jackie Stewart in the early laps. Unfortunately, in practice the German was killed and the drivers Gerard Mitter started to rise after better security.
1970: A cause of fatal accident last year, is running for the first time at Hockenheim and the race is vibrant with a finale between Jochen Rindt (Lotus-Ford) and Jacky Ickx (Ferrari) with victory the first.
1971: Back at the Nurburgring, the Scot Jackie Stewart won his law imposes its past Francois young sidekick and apprentice Cevert and Clay Regazzoni Ferrari.
1972: The Belgian Jacky Ickx chair sits at the Nurburgring unmitigated clinching victory from the same output. His team-mate Clay Regazzoni after a fierce duel with Stewart and the young Swedish driver Ronnie Peterson March accompany him on the podium.
1973: Fluent Team Tyrrell "in the soporific 1973 edition with Jackie Stewart saying in the line Cevert his apprentice might have happened if you had wanted. Jacky Ickx driving a McLaren-Ford without permission from Enzo Ferrari wins third place the podium.
1974: Another of the highlights of Switzerland's Clay Regazzoni Nurburgring in letters of gold inscribed his name on the list of winners of this test to gain some comfort in front of South African Jody Scheckter Tyrrell and Argentine Carlos Reutemann Brabham.
1975: In a trial marked by numerous punctures incurred because of bad tarmac, the Argentine Carlos Reutemann bright asserts itself ahead of Jacques Laffite surprising thereby obtaining the first important result of the Williams Ferrari and the world ruler of the Austrian Niki Lauda was not spared to pass the pits to change tires.
1976: August 1, 1976, Niki Lauda's Ferrari faltered out Bergwerk curve and hits the rails back on track in flames. The trio Edwards-Ertl-Lunger was found with the car in the middle of the track and the latter was unable to avoid colliding head-followed immediately by Ertl. The scene was hellish, the Ferrari driver was burning inside. That was the tragic end of the legendary Nurburgring, closed for the F-1 because of this accident that marked forever the face and soul of the Austrian driver, which fortunately only forty days after he returned to run the Italian Grand Prix.
1977: Just one year later the "ghost escaped from the burning of Nurburgring" the Austrian Niki Lauda is all the great authority on Hockenhiem ahead of Jody Scheckter's Wolf and the Brabham-Alfa-Romeo local pilot Hans Stuck. The Austrian could well win No. 100 Tire & Good Year.
1978: Driving the Lotus formidable-79, the Mario Andretti italanorteamericano leaves for granted who was the favorite to conquer the world title that year, clinching a comfortable victory ahead of Jody Scheckter Wolf and of the Ligier -Matra of Jacques Laffite
1979: Two weeks after Clay Regazzoni had given Frank Williams his first GP victory in the British circuit of Silverstone Swiss veteran himself behind his boss Alan Jones achieved the first double of the old traditional British team.
1980: Jacques Laffite French pays tribute to his compatriot Patrick Depailler died a week earlier in a private test-driving an Alfa Romeo at this circuit.
1981: The Brazilian Nelson Piquet takes advantage of mechanical failure suffered by Alan Jones and declining performance of Alan Prost Renault to win an upset victory that catapulted him to conquer the world first of her braid.
1982: The Frenchman Patrick Tambay get a psychological victory for Scuderia Ferrari, steeped in sadness at the terrible accident the day before by his compatriot Didier Pironi who thus lost a world title that undoubtedly deserved. Career highlight in the mini-boxing match pitting the Chilean Nelson Piquet Salazar who brought this to the track so unorthodox.
1983: René Arnoux obtained an important victory at Hockenheim, after Nelson Piquet saw his engine explode spectacularly when he had the victory in the palm of your hand.
1984: Frenchman Alain Prost and Austrian Niki Lauda won a double victory for the mighty McLaren-TAG-Porsche-Turbo that dominated at will throughout the season.
1985: re-run on the Nurburgring or rather a caricature of himself with a euphoric Alboreto imposed ahead of his main rival in the fight for the title of the year Alain Prost and the veteran French Jacques Laffite Ligier.
1986: After the severe economic losses suffered by the organizers last year's dispute over the revamped test Nurburgring, the German Grand Prix Hockenheim returned again. Nelson Piquet is hooked to the group of applicants world title clinching victory after an unexpected drop in performance Mclaren Keke Rosberg.
1987: In a career plagued by dropouts, Nelson Piquet repeats last year's victory this time for McLaren ahead of Stefan Johansson of Sweden who came to the finish with only three wheels and Ayrton Senna Lotus.
1988: The new star in the firmament of the F-1 Ayrton Senna won a brilliant victory in the rain in front of his teammate even Alain Prost and Gerhard Berger's Ferrari.
1989: Ayrton Senna Feroz comeback over teammate / rival Alain Prost after a tire change that swept Rio failed the French a victory that seemed already within reach.
1990: Third consecutive victory on German soil Ayrton Senna after starring in another ferocious comeback this time on the Benetton of Alessandro Nannini that he found a lead to not change tires. But the hurricane could not carioca.
1991: Fluent fiery Nigel Mansell who only lost the lead after a pit stop to change tires.
1992: Nigel Mansell repeated the victory last year at this time if you served to win the coveted world twisted. To highlight the third position of a young German named Michael Schumacher will play its first GP in Germany.
1993: In just three laps to go, Damon Hill, son of Graham's victory was assured to have a theoretical advantage over his team leader. But like at Silverstone two weeks before the fatality was crossed on their way to puncture the left rear tire causing him off the track. Thus Alain Prost crossed the finish line victorious ahead of local hero Michael Schumacher and Mark Blundell Ligier.
1994: A spectacular accident caused by Finland's Mika Hakkinen removed no fewer than 11 cars in the output. Thus the Austrian Gerhard Berger only had to wait until Michael Schumacher Benetton which had also been damaged at the start to give up comfort imposed ahead of the Ligier of Olivier Panis and Eric Bernard.
1995: After the first round Damon Hill off the track at the end of the line. With this gift, his rival in the fight for the title of that year the German Michael Schumacher had an explosion of joy into the stands packed with an audience surrendered to his idol. Not surprisingly, it was the first victory by a German pilot in his Great Award since Rudolf Caracciola that achieved in 1939 just before to the start of World War II.
1996: Convinced that he could still win Hill was launched to hunt for Gerhard Berger and stood just three laps in his wake. For nine laps both delighted us with a formidable duel that always came out victorious in Austria. But just three laps from the end, the Berger's Benetton engine spit out a huge cloud of blue smoke due to the rupture of one of the pistons Damon Hill to present to an undeserved victory.
1997: Last win at GP of Austrian veteran Gerhard Berger could thus Benetton team's first win following the departure of Michael Schumacher German Anglo-Italian team.
1998: With a gentleman's agreement set in secret by two since the start of the championship David Coulthard escorted at all times to his team-mate Mika Hakkinen to the finish line, getting beat on your way to an opaque Michael Schumacher finished fifth.
1999: Eddie Irvine with the blessing of his occasional teammate Mika Salo - replacement for the injured Michael Schumacher, is imposed on German soil showing his world title bid to even the Irish ultimately failed.
2000: Starting from the 18 ° position, the Brazilian Rubens Barrichello is imposed for the first time in a GP giving his victory to his ill-fated compatriot Ayrton Senna at the podium ceremony.
2001: Spectacular accident, in which the Prost of Luciano Burti flying through the air landing on top of the Ferrari of Michael Schumacher. Instead his brother Ralf won with great authority.
2002: Following the overwhelming dominance of Ferrari, the local hero Michael Schumacher gets a comfortable victory ahead of Williams-BMW duo of Montoya-R. Schumacher, while McLaren-Mercedes disappointed at home.
2003: The Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya does a Hat-Trick (Victoria-Pole-V. Fast) on German soil ahead of the McLaren of David Coulthard and Renault's Jarno Trulli and Fernando Alonso our compatriot.
2004: Third win in his country of the "Kaiser" Michael Schumacher, but the excitement in the race put the formidable duel that fought the British BAR-Honda's Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso English Renault finally had to surrender to the greatest power in the Anglo-Japanese car.
2005: Fernando Alonso and Renault win the German Grand Prix and increasingly stressed in the championship of Formula One drivers leaving The English took advantage of Kimi Raikkonen in the lead from lap 35, when his McLaren saw a breakdown. At the podium, with Alonso went the other McLaren driver Juan Pablo Montoya and Jenson Button. Michael Schumacher finished fifth which was ahead late in the race for Giancarlo Fisichella was fourth. Alonso, with that sixth win, totaled 87 points in the qualification, 36 points more than Kimi Raikkonen second in the standings.
2006: Michael Schumacher won the Grand Prix with great authority and Ferrari completed a superb overall performance to position his second driver, Felipe Massa, in the second step of the podium. The third place trophy went to the windows of Kimi Raikkonen. The excitement in the championship up to the stars with a Fernando Alonso could not go beyond fifth place and that protected by the actions of his team-mate Fisichella who stood behind him. The fourth place went to Jenson Button in a Honda something better.
2007: not played this year the German Grand Prix. Instead, the European Grand Prix was held at the Nurburgring and this is the only test that was played German lands.
2008: Lewis Hamilton Hockenheim was leaving as leader of the drivers' championship, after winning with authority the German Grand Prix. It was not easy for the British, and not for lack of pace, but a strategic mistake by McLaren that Hamilton did not use the Safety Car on track to refuel for the second and final time, unlike their more direct rivals.
Finally, thanks to a spectacular comeback, the young British indemnified tactical error and scored a resounding victory that places him in front of the drivers' championship, breaking the three-way tie to be held with the Ferrari drivers.
2009: The Australian Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault, won this day the German Grand Prix Formula One 2009, with great authority by registering a time of 1:36:43 hours.
australino The driver, took a big way yesterday having achieved pole position and held sway over the 60 laps of the Nurburgring circuit Teutonic, which has a distance of 4.57 miles, to achieve the first time in his career a World Cup win in the top flight.
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