Gran Premio di Milano

Pietro Bordino in the Fiat 806 at the Gran Premio di Milano in 1927 .

The Gran Premio di Milano (German Grand Prix of Milan ; also Circuito di Milano ) was an international automobile race in Italy that was held a total of six times between 1926 and 1946 at the Autodromo di Monza in Monza and in the Parco Sempione in Milan .

history

The first Gran Premio di Milano was held on September 12, 1926 at the Autodromo di Monza in the Formula Libre , Voiturettes and Cyclecars classes over a distance of 400 kilometers. The first winner in Formula Libre was the Italian Bartolomeo Costantini in a Bugatti T35C . The following year the race was held at Monza, along with the Italian Grand Prix . The winner was the Fiat - factory rider Pietro Bordino on Fiat 806 .

After an eight-year break, the Gran Premio di Milano in 1936 and 1937 was held on a 2.570 km long slope in Parco Sempione in Milan and was open to Grand Prix vehicles. He pulled the internationally dominant German and Italian factory teams with their top drivers, but never was one of the Grandes Épreuves of the international automobile sports federation AIACR advertised Grand Prix Championship . The Modenese Alfa Romeo factory driver Tazio Nuvolari was victorious in both years .

On September 29, 1946 , the Gran Premio di Milano in Parco Sempione was one of the first internationally important races in Italy after the Second World War . The winner on the new, 2.8 km long route was the pre-war top driver Carlo Felice Trossi in an Alfa Romeo Tipo 158 , which was also successful before the war.

In 1947 the Italian Grand Prix was held in Parco Sempione and the Gran Premio di Milano no longer took place.

Results

Edition	year	route	class	winner	Second	Third	Pole position	Fastest lap
I.	1926	Monza	FL	Bartolomeo Costantini ( Bugatti )	Jules Goux ( Bugatti )	Arturo Farinotti ( Bugatti )	unknown	Bartolomeo Costantini ( Bugatti )
II	1927	Monza	FL	Pietro Bordino ( Fiat )	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown
	1928 to 1935	no Gran Premio di Milano
III	1936	Parco Sempione	GP	Tazio Nuvolari ( Alfa Romeo )	Achille Varzi ( Auto Union )	Giuseppe Farina ( Alfa Romeo )	Tazio Nuvolari ( Alfa Romeo )	Achille Varzi ( Auto Union )
IV	1937	Parco Sempione	GP	Tazio Nuvolari ( Alfa Romeo )	Giuseppe Farina ( Alfa Romeo )	Hans Ruesch ( Alfa Romeo )	Tazio Nuvolari ( Alfa Romeo )	Tazio Nuvolari ( Alfa Romeo )
	1938 to 1945	no Gran Premio di Milano
V	1946	Parco Sempione	GP	Carlo Felice Trossi ( Alfa Romeo )	Achille Varzi ( Alfa Romeo )	Consalvo Sanesi ( Alfa Romeo )	Achille Varzi ( Alfa Romeo )	Achille Varzi ( Alfa Romeo ) and Giuseppe Farina ( Alfa Romeo )

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

• Leif Snellman, Felix Muelas: PARCO SEMPIONE - Milano (I). www.kolumbus.fi, September 5, 2014, accessed on May 24, 2015 . 
• Milan. theracingline.net, September 6, 2004, accessed May 24, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ I Gran Premio di Milano. (No longer available online.) Www.teamdan.com, archived from the original on May 4, 2009 ; accessed on May 24, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.