Prize of Eastern Switzerland

The Prize of Eastern Switzerland was an automobile racing event that was held four times between 1948 and 1951 in the municipality of Erlen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland .

route

The race was held on a triangular road course around Erlen on Lake Constance . The route was 2.816 km long, consisted of three long straights separated by three hairpin bends and was driven clockwise . Start and finish with pit lane were on today's main road . After the first bend, the line led in a north-easterly direction over today's Bahnhofstrasse and then turned right and south onto today's Poststrasse . After the third hairpin bend, she turned back west onto the home straight.

Results

Edition	date	class	winner	Second	Third	Pole position	Fastest race lap
I.	August 8, 1948	GP	Toulo de Graffenried ( Maserati )	Rudolf Fischer ( Simca - Gordini )	Walter Wüst ( Cisitalia )	unknown	unknown
II	May 22, 1949	GP	Toulo de Graffenried ( Maserati )	Richard Ramseyer ( Maserati )	Frank Séchehaye ( Maserati )	unknown	unknown
III	May 7, 1950	F2	Luigi Villoresi ( Ferrari )	Roberto Vallone ( Ferrari )	Toni Ulmen ( Veritas RS Special - BMW )	Luigi Villoresi ( Ferrari )	Toulo de Graffenried ( Simca - Gordini )
IV	August 12, 1951	F2	Peter Whitehead ( Ferrari )	Rudolf Fischer ( Ferrari )	Robert Manzon ( Simca - Gordini )	Stirling Moss ( HW - Alta )	André Simon ( Simca - Gordini )

Legend
abbreviation	class	comment
F1	formula 1	Formula 1 World Championship from 1950
F2	Formula 2
FL	Formula libre	Vehicle class usually advertised by the organizer
SW	Sports car
TW	Touring car
GP	Grand Prix vehicles
	↓ Solid gray lines indicate when a new course was used in history. ↓
	Entries with a light red background were not runs for the automobile or Formula 1 world championship.
	Entries with a yellow background were runs for the European Championship .

References

Web links

• Race results 1948: [1] , [2] ; 1949: [3] , [4] ; 1950: [5] ; 1951: [6] (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2 Prize of Eastern Switzerland - Erlen. 05/22/1949r. www.kwa-kwa.pl, accessed on November 18, 2017 (Polish). 
2. ↑ SUI - SWITZERLAND: ERLEN. www.gdecarli.it, accessed on November 18, 2017 (English). 
3. ↑ route map. www.milermeter.com, accessed November 18, 2017 (English).