PORSCHE RACING HISTORY1956 - Nürburgring 1000 km
27 May 1956 - Nürburgring Nordschleife, Germany
Wolfgang von Trips and Umberto Maglioli 4th overall and 1st in class in Porsche 550
Class S1.5 - 1st, 2nd : Class GT/T2.0 - 1st, 2nd, 3rd : Class ser.S1.5 - 1st, 2nd Swiss driver and engineer Michael May arrived at the race with a high strutted wing to the rear of his Porsche 550 to improve downforce. After practice, the German scrutineers told him everyone had enjoyed the joke but he had to remove it.
| No. | Car | # | Class | Drivers | Entrant | Pos | Class | Grid | Notes |
| 21 | Porsche 550 RS | 550-0038 | S1.5 | Wolfgang von Trips (D)/Umberto Maglioli (I) | Porsche (D) | 4th | 1st | 44 laps | |
| 20 | Porsche 550 A RS | 550-0102 | S1.5 | Richard von Frankenberg (D)/Hans Herrmann (D) | Porsche (D) | 6th | 2nd | 7th | 44 laps |
| 61 | Porsche 356 A Carrera 1500 GS | 356-55000 | GT/T2.0 | Max Nathan (D)/Gert Kaiser (S) | Max Nathan (D) | 9th | 1st | 44 laps | |
| 65 | Porsche 356 A Carrera | GT/T2.0 | Helmut Schülze (D)/Joaquim Felipe Nogueira (P) | Helmut Schülze | 10th | 2nd | 44 laps | ||
| 43 | Porsche 550 Spyder | 550-0018 | ser.S1.5 | Friedrich Kretschmann (D)/Sepp Liebl (D) | Friedrich Kretschmann | 13th | 1st | 43 laps | |
| 63 | Porsche 356 A Carrera | GT/T2.0 | Helmut Zick (D)/Hans-Georg Plaut (D) | Hans Georg Plaut | 15th | 3rd | 42 laps | ||
| 64 | Porsche 356 Super 1600 | GT/T2.0 | Wilhelm Wittmann (D)/Walter Hampel (D) | W. H. Wittmann | 20th | 4th | 40 laps | ||
| 76 | Porsche 356 Super 1300 | GT/T1.3 | Helmut Busch (D)/Horst Bös (D) | Helmut Busch | 21st | 7th | 40 laps | ||
| 77 | Porsche 356 A Super 1300 | GT/T1.3 | Sepp Greger (D)/Harald von Saucken (D) | Sepp Greger | 22nd | 8th | 40 laps | ||
| 78 | Porsche 356 Super 1300 | GT/T1.3 | Hartmuth Oesterle (D)/Siegfried Günther (D) | Hartmuth Oesterle | 23rd | 9th | 40 laps | ||
| 45 | Porsche 550 Spyder | 550-0041 | ser.S1.5 | Mathieu Hezemans (NL)/Carel Godin de Beaufort (NL) | Gotfrid Koechert | 24th | 2nd | 38 laps | |
| 72 | Porsche 356 Super 1300 | GT/T1.3 | Helmut Deutenberg (D)/Heinz Jäger (D) | Helmut Deutenberg | 25th | 10th | 39 laps | ||
| 74 | Porsche 356 Super 1300 | GT/T1.3 | Karl Falk (D)/Albert Joch (D) | Karl Falk | 26th | 11th | 39 laps | ||
| 34 | Porsche 550 Spyder | 550-0031 | S1.5 | Michael May (CH)/Pierre May (D) | Michael May | DNF | |||
| 36 | Porsche 550 Spyder | S1.5 | Karl Busch (D)/Karl Schwaneberg (D) | Karl Busch (D) | DNF | Accident | |||
| 40 | Porsche 550 Spyder | ser.S1.5 | Theo Helfrich (D)/Peter Nöcker (D) | Theo Helfrich | DNF | ||||
| 41 | Porsche 550 Spyder | 550-0015 | ser.S1.5 | Wolfgang Seidel (D)/Helmut Glöckler (D) | Wolfgang Seidel | DNF | Wheel | ||
| 47 | Porsche 550 Spyder | 550-0081 | ser.S1.5 | William C. Buff (USA)/Gotfrid Koechert (D) | William C. Buff | DNF | |||
| 62 | Porsche 356 A Carrera | GT/T2.0 | Ludwig Blendl (D)/Dieter Lissmann (D) | Ludwig Blendl | DNF | Wheel | |||
| 67 | Porsche 356 Super 1500 | GT/T2.0 | Heini Buess (CH)/Franz Hammernick (CH) | Meute | DNF | Gearbox | |||
| 70 | Porsche 356 | GT/T1.3 | Richard Trenkel (D)/Helmut Niedermayr (D) | Richard Trenkel | DNF | ||||
| 71 | Porsche 356 | GT/T1.3 | Paul-Ernst Strähle (D)/Paul Denk (D) | Erich Hofmann | DNF | ||||
| 73 | Porsche 356 | GT/T1.3 | Josef Jeser (D)/Manfred Elmenhorst (D) | Josef Jeser | DNF | ||||
| 75 | Porsche 356 | GT/T1.3 | Alfred Kling (D)/Edmund Graf (D) | Alfred Kling | DNF | Engine |
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