How McLaren defined eight days at the German GP

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How McLaren defined eight days at the German GP

McLaren has won the German Grand Prix at two different venues: the Nurburgring and Hockenheim. Here’s how the team defined eight days in the history of the race:

1. August 1 1976
James Hunt starts the race from pole position, with arch-rival Niki Lauda alongside him in second place. Both are slow away at the start, but the race on the Nordschleife is stopped during the early stages when Lauda crashes heavily at Bergwerk. At the re-start Hunt asserts himself at the front and wins by half a minute, with McLaren teammate Jochen Mass coming home third. © AP Photo/Hill

2. August 5 1984
Alain Prost starts from pole position at Hockenheim, but drops to third at the start. Early leader Elio de Angelis slows with engine problems, handing the lead to Nelson Piquet, and Prost inherits the lead when Piquet retires with gearbox trouble. Niki Lauda climbs through the field from seventh on the grid to make it a McLaren one-two at the flag. © AP Photo

3. July 24 1988
A McLaren one-two on the grid, Ayrton Senna ahead of Prost, is repeated in the race. Senna is never headed all afternoon, but Prost makes a bad start and has to pass Alessandro Nannini and Gerhard Berger to regain second place. It’s McLaren’s sixth 1-2 finish in eight races. © AP Photo/John Redman

4. July 30 1989
Another all-McLaren front row, Senna ahead of Prost. Berger leads into Turn 1 after making a brilliant start from fourth on the grid, but the Ferrari driver is promptly overtaken by Senna and Prost – who grabs the lead during the pitstops. Gearbox problems slow Prost in the latter stages, handing victory to Senna. They’re separated by 18s at the finish. © AP Photo/Tsugufumi Matsumoto

5. July 29 1990
Another victory from pole position for Senna, but he’s made to work for it when Nannini takes the lead during the pitstops. Only when the Italian suffers tyre wear problems late in the race does Senna take the lead and he wins by 6.5s. Teammate Gerhard Berger comes home third in the sister MP4-5. © AP Photo/Neokazu Oinuma

6. August 2 1998
A McLaren one-two executed to perfection. Mika Hakkinen takes pole position and leads from start-to-finish; David Coulthard starts second and finishes 0.4s behind his teammate. The result extends Hakkinen's lead in the world championship to 16 points over Michael Schumacher, who finishes fifth. © LAT Photographic/Williams

7. July 20 2008
Lewis Hamilton has a comfortable lead for two-thirds of the race, and then the Safety Car comes out. The field closes up and Hamilton drops to fifth when he makes his second and final pitstop 16 laps from the finish. A late-race charge sees him regain the lead in spectacular style, winning the race by five seconds. © AP Photo/Martin Meissner

8. July 24 2011
Hamilton puts in “a wicked lap” during qualifying to line up second on the grid, alongside pole-sitter Mark Webber. Hamilton beats Webber into Turn 1 at the start, but he’s far from home and dry. He races wheel-to-wheel with Webber and Fernando Alonso on two separate occasions to beat Alonso by four seconds. © AP Photo/Jens Meyer