1954 Berlin Grand Prix

1954 Berlin Grand Prix
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 Argentina 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.

  1. ^ "1954 Berlin Grand Prix". Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  2. ^ "1954 Non-World Championship Grands Prix". Retrieved 2022-05-12.