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 |
| 1 | Luigi Villoresi | Ferrari |
| 2 | Juan Fangio | Maserati |
| 3 | Nino Farina | Ferrari |
| 4 | Mike Hawthorn | Ferrari |
| 5 | Maurice Trintignant | Gordini |
| 6 | Luigi Villoresi | Ferrari |
| 6 | Alberto Ascari | Ferrari |
| 7 | Felice Bonetto | Maserati |
| 8 | Onofre Marimón | Maserati |
| 9 | Jean Behra | Gordini |
| 10 | Harry Schell | Gordini |
| 11 | Toulo de Graffenried | Maserati |
| 12 | Stirling Moss | Cooper |
| 13 | Roy Salvadori | Connaught |
| 14 | Hans Herrmann | Veritas |
| 15 | Prince Bira | Connaught |
| 16 | Kenneth McAlpine | Connaught |
| 17 | Alan Brown | Cooper |
| 18 | Willi Heeks | Veritas |
| 19 | Jacques Swaters | Ferrari |
| 20 | Rodney Nuckey | Cooper |
| 21 | Theo Fitzau | AFM |
| 22 | Louis Rosier | Ferrari |
| 23 | Hans von Stuck | AFM |
| 24 | Edgar Barth | EMW |
| 25 | Johnny Claes | Connaught |
| 26 | Rudolf Krause | BMW |
| 27 | Kurt Adolff | Ferrari |
| 28 | Theo Helfrich | Veritas |
| 29 | Wolfgang Seidel | Veritas |
| 30 | Günther Bechem | AFM |
| 31 | Ernst Loof | Veritas |
| 32 | Ernst Klodwig | BMW |
| 33 | Erwin Bauer | Veritas |
| 34 | Oswald Karch | Veritas |