1926 German Grand Prix

Infobox Grand Prix race report
Type = GP
Grand Prix = German
Date = 11 July
Year = 1926
Official name = I GROßER PREIS VON DEUTSCHLAND
Country = Germany


Location = AVUS, Berlin, Germany
Course_mi = 12.157
Course_km = 19.565
Distance_laps = 20
Distance_mi = 243.148
Distance_km = 391.308
Pole_Driver =
Pole_Team =
Pole_

Pole_Time =
Fast_Driver = Ferdinando Minoia
Fast_Team = OM 665
Fast_Time = 7'17.00
Fast_Country = Italy
Fast_Shared_Driver =
Fast_Shared_Team =
Fast_Shared_

First_Driver = Rudolf Caracciola
First_Team = Mercedes SS
First_Country = Germany
Second_Driver = Christian Riecken
Second_Team = NAG
Second_Country = Germany
Third_Driver = Willy Cleer
Third_Team = Alfa-Romeo
Third_Country = Germany

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

After the 1936 win of Bernd Rosemeyer and two more wins by "Carratsch", no other German driver would accomplish a German GP win until Michael Schumacher in 1995.

The 1926 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.

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