Grand Prix de Lyon
The Grand Prix de Lyon (also Grand Prix automobile de Lyon ; German: Grand Prix of Lyon ) was an automobile racing event that was held in 1929 and 1930 by the Commission sportive of the Automobile Club du Rhône near the French city of Lyon.
route
The route used, the Circuit de Quincieux , was about 20 kilometers north of the city center of Lyon and was triangular in shape. It was driven clockwise and consisted of the public roads N 51 , D 87 and D 87E, which were closed for the racing events. The start and finish were in Quincieux . From there, the route led west on the N 51 to Grand Vessieux , where it turned north-east onto the D 87 to Trévoux . On the banks of the Saône , the route made a bend to the south and ran back to Quincieux via today's D 87E. The course had a length of 6.515 km.
history
Important motorsport events were held in the Lyon region even before the First World War . In 1914 the Automobile Club de France (ACF) organized the XIV Grand Prix de l'ACF on the Circuit de Lyon . This resulted in a triple victory for the works team of the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft with Christian Friedrich Lautenschlager , Louis Wagner and Otto Salzer . 1,924 won on the same site of the Italians Giuseppe Campari on a plant - Alfa-Romeo P2 the XVIII Grand Prix de l'ACF before the Delage pilots Albert Divo and Robert Benoist (both Delage Type 2 LCV ).
The first Grand Prix de Lyon took place on April 17, 1929 . The race was advertised for Formula Libre , Voiturettes , Cyclecars . After 38 laps and a race distance of around 250 km, the German Hans Simons won with an average speed of 100.38 km / h in a privately entered Bugatti T35 .
The following year, Monegasse Louis Chiron in a Bugatti T35C was victorious with an average of just under 118 km / h, ahead of Heinrich-Joachim von Morgen ( Bugatti T35B ) and Frenchman Philippe Étancelin (Bugatti T35C).
After the second edition, no more official Grand Prix de Lyon was held. After the end of the Second World War , the French Grand Prix returned to Lyon and was held on the Circuit de Lyon-Parilly . Louis Chiron won on Talbot-Lago ahead of Henri Louveau on Maserati and Eugène Chaboud (also Talbot-Lago).
statistics
| Edition | date | Classes | winner | Second | Third | Pole position | Fastest race lap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I. | April 17, 1929 | FL , VO , CC |
.svg){kind=small} Hans Simons ( Bugatti ) |
 José Scaron ( Amilcar ) 1
|
"Foc" ( Bugatti ) 2
|
 unknown
|
"Foc" ( Bugatti ) 2
|
| II | June 15, 1930 | FL , VO , CC |
 Louis Chiron ( Bugatti ) |
Heinrich-Joachim von Morgen ( Bugatti ) 1
|
Philippe Étancelin ( Bugatti ) |
unknown
|
Louis Chiron ( Bugatti )
|
| 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
literature
- Éric Favre: Les grands prix automobile de Lyon . organized by l'Automobile Club de France et l'Automobile Club du Rhône. Ed .: SEPEC. 2014, ISBN 978-2-7466-6879-9 (French).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Leif Snellman: CIRCUIT DE QUINCIEUX - Lyon (F). www.kolumbus.fi, April 1, 2017, accessed on May 13, 2017 (English).