1954 Berlin Grand Prix | |||
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Non-championship race in the 1954 Formula One season | |||
Race details | |||
Date | 19 September 1954 | ||
Official name | I Großer Preis von Berlin | ||
Location | Berlin, Germany | ||
Course | AVUS | ||
Course length | 8.300 km (5.157 miles) | ||
Distance | 60 laps, 498.00 km (309.42 miles) | ||
Pole position | |||
Driver | Mercedes-Benz | ||
Time | 2:12.3 | ||
Fastest lap | |||
Driver | Juan Manuel Fangio | Mercedes-Benz | |
Time | 2:13.4 | ||
Podium | |||
First | Mercedes-Benz | ||
Second | Mercedes-Benz | ||
Third | Mercedes-Benz |
The 1st Großer Preis von Berlin was a non-championship Formula One motor race held on 19 September 1954 at the AVUS circuit in Berlin. The Grand Prix was won by Karl Kling in a Mercedes-Benz W196. Kling's team-mates Juan Manuel Fangio and Hans Herrmann were second and third, with Fangio setting pole position and fastest lap.[1][2]
This was Mercedes' only participation in a non-championship Formula 1 race, the team wanting to demonstrate their cars to their home nation, especially on a track that would suit them. As such it was a processional race, with less than a second separating the three cars, and fourth placed André Pilette coming in 3 laps behind in his Gordini T16.