Eifel race 1933

Track layout

The Eifelrennen 1933 took place on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring from May 26th to 28th , seven days after the AVUS race the second international automobile race of the 1933 season in Germany . The event included seven competitions, three for cars, two for motorcycles and two for sidecar teams. The winner of the most powerful class, cars over 1500 cm³, received a prize of 3,500 Reichsmarks .

After the seizure of power on January 30, 1933 , the National Socialists demonstrated their strength in an intrusive way at the Nürburgring. In the reporting of the magazine Motor und Sport it was read: “An SS honor guard is raised, the black-white-red flag goes up on the mast, the Germany song sounds, the swastika banner is hoisted and the Horst-Wessel song is played. The motorcycles are lined up, heavy gray clouds hang over the Nürburg - this is how the International ADAC Eifel Race begins in 1933. “From then on, the Nazi state increasingly instrumentalized motor sport for its propaganda and turned manufacturers and drivers into advertising media criminal system.

run

Automobiles

On the Thursday before the race, the first practice session took place on the 22.810-kilometer circuit. Due to heavy rain, however, very few drivers took the opportunity to drive on the track. On Friday, Tazio Nuvolari quickly emerged as the favorite for the race win.

Around 100,000 spectators gathered at the Nürburgring on race Sunday. Shortly before the start of the cars over 1500 cm³, the rain stopped, which had been falling over the track since the early hours of the morning. At the beginning of the race, Piero Taruffi, who had started fifth, took the lead, which he lost to Louis Chiron after the first lap , followed by Nuvolari and von Brauchitsch . After two laps, Nuvolari finally led Chiron and steadily increased his lead. On the fifth lap, Chiron had to pits for the first time to refuel, but three more stops followed due to a tank leak. Nuvolari finally won by almost six minutes over von Brauchitsch and Taruffi. The Hungarian László Hartmann caused a curiosity when he drove into a 16th lap after the end of the race. His extra lap, however, had already passed the south bend, where he overturned but was unharmed.

The fastest race lap was officially attributed to Tazio Nuvolari, but there is no timed stop.

The class up to 1500 cm³ was won by Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe , on Delage with a second lead over Ernst Günther Burggaller on Bugatti , the class up to 800 cm³ by Lord Hamilton on MG .

motorcycles

A total of 58 solo machines were registered for the motorcycle races over 15 laps each, starting in the classes up to 350 cm³ and up to 1000 cm³. There were only 15 teams; they drove 10 laps each in the classes up to 600 cm³ and up to 1000 cm³. In the big motorcycle class, the order of the leading drivers Hans Soenius , Paul Rüttchen and Bernd Rosemeyer changed several times during the initial phase of the race , until Rosemeyer had to fail due to water in the electrical system. Rüttchen crashed several times, so that Soenius won on Norton after 3: 27: 58.1 hours with an average of 98.75 km / h. Ernst Loof won the class up to 350 cm³ on Imperia in 3: 30: 19.3 hours. The big team class was won by Paul Weyres on a Harley-Davidson , the class up to 600 cm³ by the Swiss couple Hans and Cilly strengkle on NSU .

Results

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Scuderia Ferrari	01	Tazio Nuvolari	Alfa Romeo Monza	Alfa Romeo 2.6L I8 compressor	E.
	05	Eugenio Siena
	06th	Piero Taruffi
Officine Alfieri Maserati	03	Luigi Fagioli	Maserati 8CM	Maserati 3.0L I8 compressor
Daimler-Benz AG	04th	Manfred von Brauchitsch	Mercedes-Benz SSKL	Mercedes-Benz M06 RS 7.1L I6 compressor	C.
László Hartmann	07th	László Hartmann	BugattiT35B	Bugatti 2.3L I8 compressor
Rudolf Steinweg	08th	Rudolf Steinweg	Bugatti T35C	Bugatti 2.0L I8 compressor	C.
Equipe Villars-Waldthausen	09	Julio Villars	Alfa Romeo Monza	Alfa Romeo 2.3L I8 compressor	MZ
	10	Horst von Waldthausen
Norbert Sinner	11	Norbert Sinner	Bugatti T51	Bugatti 2.3L I8 compressor
Charly Jellen	12	Charly Jellen	Alfa Romeo Monza	Alfa Romeo 2.3L I8 compressor
Paul Pietsch	14th	Paul Pietsch	Alfa Romeo Monza	Alfa Romeo 2.3L I8 compressor
Herbert Wimmer	15th	Herbert Wimmer	Bugatti T35B	Bugatti 2.3L I8 compressor
George Eyston	16	George Eyston	Alfa Romeo Monza	Alfa Romeo 2.3L I8 compressor
Ernst Günther Burggaller	22nd	Ernst Günther Burggaller	Bugatti T51A	Bugatti 1.5L I8
Joseph Zigrand	23	Joseph Zigrand	Bugatti T37A	Bugatti 1.5L I4 compressor
Earl Howe	24	Earl Howe	Delage 15S8	Delage 1.5L I8	D.
Bruno Sojka	26th	Bruno Sojka	Bugatti T37A	Bugatti 1.5L I4 compressor
Anne-Cécile Rose-Itier	27	Anne-Cécile Rose-Itier	Bugatti T51A	Bugatti 1.5L I8	M.
Louis Decaroli	28	Louis Decaroli	Bugatti T37A	Bugatti 1.5L I4 compressor
Heinz Krebs	29	Heinz Krebs	Mathis	Mathis 1.1L I4
Automobiles Ettore Bugatti	30th	Pierre Veyron	Bugatti T51A	Bugatti 1.5L I8	M.
Edith Frisch	31	Edith Frisch	Bugatti T37A	Bugatti 1.5L I4 compressor
Horst Schulz	32	Mathilde Schulz	Bugatti T37A	Bugatti 1.5L I4 compressor
Willi Seibel	33	Willi Seibel	Bugatti T37A	Bugatti 1.5L I4 compressor
Adolf Brudes	34	Adolf Brudes	Bugatti T37A	Bugatti 1.5L I4 compressor
Hans Ruesch	35	Hans Ruesch	Alfa Romeo 6C 1500	Alfa Romeo 1.5L I6
Bobby Kohlrausch	41	Bobby Kohlrausch	Austin 7 Rubber Duck	Austin 0.7L I4
Gerhard Macher	42	Gerhard Macher	DKW	DKW 0.7L 2 x I2
Horst Schulz	43	Horst Schulz	DKW	DKW 0.5L I2
Walter Bäumer	44	Walter Bäumer	Austin 7	Austin 0.7L I4
Ernst von Delius	45	Ernst von Delius	BMW	BMW 0.7L I4
Felix Seifert	46	Felix Seifert	DKW	DKW 0.7L I4
Willi Zinn	47	Willi Zinn	BMW	BMW 0.7L I4
Hugh Caulfield Hamilton	48	Hugh Caulfield Hamilton	MG J4	MG 0.7L I4	D.
Conrad Lützow	49	Conrad Lützow	BMW	BMW 0.7L I4
Hans Simons	50	Hans Simons	DKW	DKW 0.7L I4
Jean-Marie de Texidor		Jean-Marie de Texidor	Bugatti T35B	Bugatti 2.3L I8 compressor

Race result

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Tazio Nuvolari	Alfa Romeo	15th		3: 00: 59,000	1
02	Manfred von Brauchitsch	Mercedes	15th		+ 5: 55,000	3
03	Piero Taruffi	Alfa Romeo	15th		+ 8: 10,000	5
04th	Louis Chiron	Alfa Romeo	15th		+ 10: 49,000	2
05	László Hartmann	Bugatti	15th		+ 11: 13,000	6th
06th	Paul Pietsch	Alfa Romeo	15th		+ 12: 30,000	11
07th	Eugenio Siena	Alfa Romeo	15th		+ 17: 12,000	4th
-	Rudolf Steinweg	Bugatti			DNF	7th		Leak in the fuel tank
-	Julio Villars	Alfa Romeo			DNF	8th		Engine failure
-	Horst von Waldthausen	Alfa Romeo			DNF	9		failure
-	Charly Jellen	Alfa Romeo			DNF	10		failure
-	Herbert Wimmer	Bugatti			DNF	12		accident
-	Jean-Marie de Texidor	Bugatti			DNF	13		failure

Race result Voiturette up to 1.5 liters displacement

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Earl Howe	Delage	15th		3: 17: 42,000	14th
02	Ernst Günther Burggaller	Bugatti	15th		+ 1,000	15th
03	Pierre Veyron	Bugatti	15th		+ 5: 54,000
04th	Bruno Sojka	Bugatti	15th		+ 11: 55,000	16
05	Willi Seibel	Bugatti	15th		+ 22: 10,000
-	Edith Frisch	Bugatti			DNF			failure
-	Joseph Zigrand	Bugatti			DNF	17th		failure
-	Heinz Krebs	Mathis			DNF			failure
-	Hans Ruesch	Alfa Romeo			DNF			failure

Race result Voiturette up to 0.8 liter displacement

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Hugh Caulfield Hamilton	MG	12		2: 50: 15,000
02	Bobby Kohlrausch	Austin	12		+ 9: 59,000
-	Felix Seifert	DKW			DNF			failure
-	Willi Zinn	BMW			DNF			failure
-	Conrad Lützow	BMW			DNF			failure
-	Walter Bäumer	Austin			DNF			failure
-	Ernst von Delius	BMW			DNF			failure
-	Hans Simons	DKW	2		DNF			failure
-	Gerhard Macher	DKW	1		DNF			failure

Web links

• Score on The Golden Era

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC Eifelrennen . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2009, ISBN 978-3-86852-070-5 , pp. 24, 25 and 246.