1955 German motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1955 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 1955 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 26 June 1955 at the Nürburgring circuit.

  1955 German Grand Prix

Race details
Race 4 of 8 races in the 1955 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	26 June 1955
Location	Nürburgring
Course	Permanent racing facility 22.810 km (14.173 mi)
500 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Geoff Duke Gilera Time 10:23.3 Podium First Geoff Duke Gilera Second Walter Zeller BMW Third Carlo Bandirola MV Agusta
350 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Bill Lomas Moto Guzzi Time 10:35.0 Podium First Bill Lomas Moto Guzzi Second August Hobl DKW Third John Surtees Mondial
250 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Hermann Paul Müller NSU Time 10:56.7 Podium First Hermann Paul Müller NSU Second Wolfgang Brandt NSU Third Cecil Sandford Moto Guzzi
125 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Carlo Ubbiali MV Agusta Time 12:18.2 Podium First Carlo Ubbiali MV Agusta Second Luigi Taveri MV Agusta Third Remo Venturi MV Agusta
Sidecar (B2A)
Rider Fastest lap Rider Willi Faust BMW Time 11:37.0 Podium First Willi Faust BMW Second Wilhelm Noll BMW Third Walter Schneider BMW

500 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Geoff Duke	Gilera	9	1:34:06.1	8
2	Walter Zeller	BMW	9	+24.3	6
3	Carlo Bandirola	MV Agusta	9	+3:28.9	4
4	Umberto Masetti	MV Agusta			3
5	Giuseppe Colnago	Gilera			2
6	Jack Ahearn	Norton			1
7	Hans-Günter Jäger	Norton
8	Sven Andersson	Norton
9	Kuno Johansson	Matchless
10	Ernst Hiller	Matchless
11	Bob Matthews	Norton
12	Hans-Joachim Scheel	Norton
13	H. Schreiber	Norton
14	Phil Heath	Norton
15	H. Scheifel	Norton
[1]

350 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Bill Lomas	Moto Guzzi	7	1:14:52.1	8
2	August Hobl	DKW	7	+13.0	6
3	John Surtees	Norton	7	+16.3	4
4	Cecil Sandford	Moto Guzzi			3
5	Ken Kavanagh	Moto Guzzi			2
6	Karl Hofmann	DKW			1
7	Siegfried Wünsche	DKW
8	Carlo Bandirola	MV Agusta
9	Keith Campbell	Norton
10	Jack Ahearn	Norton
11	Peter Murphy	AJS
12	Bill Aislabie	AJS
13	Helmut Hallmeier	NSU
14	G. Bodmer	DKW
15	H. Hötzer	AJS
16	Arthur Wheeler	AJS
17	Bob Brown	AJS
18	K. Bähr	Horex
19	Günther Borgesdiek	Norton
20	Bruno Böhrer	Parilla
21	Eric Houseley	AJS
22	H. Kauret	AJS
23	A. Huber	AJS
24	Werner Mazanec	AJS
25	Rudi Stein	AJS
[1]

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Hermann Paul Müller	NSU	6	1:06:19.6	8
2	Wolfgang Brandt	NSU	6	+1:02.0	6
3	Cecil Sandford	Moto Guzzi	6	+1:05.7	4
4	Luigi Taveri	MV Agusta			3
5	Arthur Wheeler	Moto Guzzi			2
6	Helmut Hallmeier	NSU			1
7	Roberto Colombo	Moto Guzzi
8	Fritz Kläger	NSU
9	Roland Heck	NSU
10	Karl-Julius Holthaus	NSU
11	Horst Kassner	NSU
12	Rudi Stein	NSU
13	Florian Camathias	NSU
14	Rudi Meier	NSU
15	Hans-Joachim Scheel	AWO
16	Siegfried Lohmann	Adler
17	Ludwig Malchus	NSU
18	Basil Keys	Norton
19	W. Kesberg	NSU
[1]

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Carlo Ubbiali	MV Agusta	5	1:01:56.5	8
2	Luigi Taveri	MV Agusta	5	+0.8	6
3	Remo Venturi	MV Agusta	5	+1.6	4
4	Karl Lottes	MV Agusta			3
5	Bernhard Petruschke	IFA			2
6	Erhart Krumpholz	IFA			1
7	H. Bähr	MV Agusta
8	Willi Scheidhauer	MV Agusta
9	Werner Funk	MV Agusta
10	Gerrit Dupont	MV Agusta
11	Erich Wünsche	MV Agusta
[1]

Sidecar classification

Pos	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Willi Faust	Karl Remmert	BMW	5	58:33.8	8
2	Wilhelm Noll	Fritz Cron	BMW	5	+1:03.7	6
3	Walter Schneider	Manfred Grunwald	BMW	5	+1:52.0	4
4	Jacques Drion	Inge Stoll	Norton			3
5	Bob Mitchell	Max George	Norton			2
6	Jean Murit	Francis Flahaut	Norton			1
7	Helmut Fath	Emil Ohr	BMW
8	Willy Mäder	Erich Schöttle	Norton
9	Fritz Seeber	Franz Heiss	BMW
10	Marcel Masuy	?	Norton
11	Fritz Bagge	?	Norton
12	Friedrich Staschel	Edgar Perduss	BMW
13	Loni Neussner	?	Norton
14	V. Tongratz	?	Norton
15	T. Gobel	?	Norton
16	W. Nowak	?	Norton
17	Hans Haldemann	Herbert Läderach	Norton
[1]

References

1. Cook, R. A. B. (ed.). Motor Cycling Sports Yearbook 1956. Temple Press Ltd. p. 174.

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