Formula 1 1956 7 1956-08-05 1956-08-05 https://r2.thesportsdb.com/images/media/event/thumb/q7egce1748090736.jpg https://r2.thesportsdb.com/images/media/event/poster/7wfzrc1748090399.jpg The 1956 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 5 August 1956 at Nürburgring. It was race 7 of 8 in the 1956 World Championship of Drivers. Forty-five-year-old Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio won the race for Ferrari, and broke Hermann Lang's 17-year-old lap record, set in a Mercedes. Present at the event was 18-year old Juan Carlos, later King of Spain, in support of his relative Alfonso de Portago Of the original 22 entrants only five cars completed the race. 2246140