Grand Prix de Nice
The Grand Prix de Nice (also Grand Prix automobile de Nice ; German: Grand Prix of Nice ) was an automobile racing event that was held a total of 6 times in French Nice between 1932 and 1947 .
route
The Grand Prix de Nice was on the road course Circuit de la Promenade des Anglais in Nice city center along the beach promenade Promenade des Anglais discharged. In 1932 the route was 3.228 km long, from 1933 it was 3.214 km long. The Circuit de la Promenade des Anglais was very narrow, consisting of a long straight, two hairpin bends and part of the Jardin Albert Premier .
history
As early as 1901 , Nice established its motorsport tradition with the Nice – Salon – Nice race.
In 1932, the Automobile Club de Nice began staging its own Grand Prix race, which that year was still called the Circuit de Vitesse de Nice . From 1933 the race was officially held as the Grand Prix de Nice.
In 1932 the Monegasse Louis Chiron won in a privately entered Bugatti T51 . In 1933 the top Italian driver Tazio Nuvolari won in a private Maserati 8CM . A year later, his compatriot Achille Varzi was victorious in an Alfa Romeo Tipo B from Scuderia Ferrari . In 1935 Nuvolari celebrated his second victory - meanwhile also driving an Alfa Romeo Tipo B of the Enzo Ferrari team .
When racing activities were resumed in Europe after the Second World War , the Grand Prix de Nice on April 22, 1946 was the first international race. The two post-war editions were won by the Italian Luigi Villoresi in a Maserati 4CL from Scuderia Milano and Scuderia Ambrosiana, respectively .
Results
| 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 . | ||
