Grand Prix de Avus 1959

Imagenes del Gran premio de Alemania celebrado en la carretera de Avus, en Berlin

Pole: Tony Brooks, 237.331 km/h

1- Tony brooks...........Ferrari
2- Dan Gurney............Ferrari
3- Phil Hill.............Ferrari
4- Maurice Trintignant...Cooper-Climax
5- Jo Bonnier............BRM
6- Ian Burguess..........CooperMaserati
7- harry Schell..........BRM

RV: Tony Brooks, 240 km/H

....Jeah Behra R.I.P. ....

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[eliesforadecasa]

I read that an US soldier had a great panic moment in 1945 when thought it could be fun to drive on the banked part driving his jeep willie flat out. The only problem was that during war a wooden staircase was build in the middle or the banking, and he had to brake in the last moment...

[leach1527]

I believe Avus was largely made up of a couple of strips of public road with an insane banked section at one end made of tiny bricks. Racing went on there until the mid 60s.

Elsewhere on Youtube is a clip of Hans Hermann's famous flip at Avus in '59 when he was thrown from his car and slid along the track watching his car a few yards ahead of him demolish itself..

[Quintinohthree]

Yes, it was only one F1 race and one pre-war European Grand Prix Championship race, maybe another non championship race too.

[boogieedownberlin]

I knew that the AVUS was used a racetrack, but I just found out today that it actually hosted a Foruma 1 race in the past.

WOW.