German Grand Prix
Nürburgring
Grand Prix starting grid
Race starts
Grid positions from race-result records; not a separately verified pre-race grid.
| POS | DRIVER | TEAM |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari |
| 2 | Nino Farina | Ferrari |
| 3 | Maurice Trintignant | Gordini |
| 4 | Robert Manzon | Gordini |
| 5 | Piero Taruffi | Ferrari |
| 6 | Rudi Fischer | Ferrari |
| 7 | Paul Pietsch | Veritas |
| 8 | Hans Klenk | Veritas |
| 9 | Willi Heeks | AFM |
| 10 | Felice Bonetto | Maserati |
| 11 | Jean Behra | Gordini |
| 12 | Fritz Riess | Veritas |
| 13 | Paul Frère | HWM |
| 14 | Tony Gaze | HWM |
| 15 | Toni Ulmen | Veritas |
| 16 | Gino Bianco | Maserati |
| 17 | Roger Laurent | Ferrari |
| 18 | Theo Helfrich | Veritas |
| 19 | Adolf Brudes | Veritas |
| 20 | Josef Peters | Veritas |
| 21 | Bill Aston | Aston Butterworth |
| 22 | Helmut Niedermayr | AFM |
| 23 | Rudolf Krause | BMW |
| 24 | Rudolf Schoeller | Ferrari |
| 25 | Marcel Balsa | BMW |
| 26 | Eitel Cantoni | Maserati |
| 27 | Piero Carini | Ferrari |
| 29 | Ernst Klodwig | BMW |
| 30 | Günther Bechem | BMW |
| 32 | Johnny Claes | HWM |