Grand Prix de la Marne

Grand Prix de La Marne 1935: Louis Chiron ahead of Marcel Lehoux and Raph .

Sports car race 1937

The Grand Prix de la Marne (also Grand Prix automobile de la Marne ; German: Großer Preis der Marne ) was an automobile racing event held by the Automobile Club de Champagne between 1925 and 1952 a total of 13 times near the French city ​​of Reims in the Marne department was carried out.

The race was considered one of the fastest and most prestigious in Europe at the time.

route

The first edition of the Grand Prix de la Marne in 1925 took place on the 22 km long Circuit de bein-Nauroy about 10 km southeast of Reims near the Reims-Prunay airfield . From 1926 the Grand Prix de la Marne was held on the newly created, approximately 7.8 km long Circuit de Reims-Gueux .

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  Circuit de Bein-Nauroy (1925)

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  Circuit de Reims-Gueux (1926–1951)

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  Circuit de Reims-Gueux (1952)

history

The origins of racing of the Champagne lying department Marne were in motorcycle racing events , the 1912/1913 km on the 225 long street circuit Circuit de la Champagne near the town of Sarcy , about 20 km southwest of Reims were discharged.

The first Grand Prix de la Marne took place on August 2, 1925 on the Circuit de bein-Nauroy . The race was advertised for Formula Libre , Voiturettes and Cyclecars .

In 1926 the Grand Prix moved to the Circuit de Reims-Gueux . The growing popularity of the event prompted the Automobile Club de France (ACF), the race in 1932 as the French Grand Prix ( XVIII Grand Prix de l'ACF tender). The French Grand Prix also took place in Reims in 1938 and 1939 . That is why no official Grand Prix de la Marne was held in those years.

After a sports car race had already taken place parallel to the race for Grand Prix racing cars in 1935 , the Grand Prix de la Marne in 1936 and 1937 was exclusively for sports cars . This was mainly due to the dominance of the German Grand Prix cars from Auto Union and Mercedes-Benz .

After the Second World War , the French Grand Prix only took place in Reims-Gueux. In 1952 a sports car race was held for the last time as the Grand Prix de la Marne.

statistics

Edition	date	Classes	route	winner	Second	Third	Pole position	Fastest race lap
I.	August 2, 1925	FL , VO , CC	Circuit de legs-Nauroy	Pierre Clause ( Bignan )	Robert Lestienne ( Corre-La Licorne ) 1	Robert Gauthier ( Talbot ) 1	unknown	Boris Iwanowski ( BNC ) 2
II	July 25, 1926	FL , VO , CC	Circuit de Reims-Gueux	François Lescot ( Bugatti )	Brosselin ( Bugatti ) 1	Robert Gauthier ( Bignan )	unknown	François Lescot ( Bugatti )
III	July 10, 1927	FL , VO , CC	Circuit de Reims-Gueux	Philippe Étancelin ( Bugatti )	Michel Doré ( Corre-La Licorne ) 1	Guy Drouet ( Bugatti ) 1	unknown	Philippe Étancelin ( Bugatti )
III	July 5, 1928	GP , VO , CC	Circuit de Reims-Gueux	Louis Chiron ( Bugatti )	Robert Gauthier ( Bugatti )	Philippe Auber ( Bugatti ) 1	Louis Chiron ( Bugatti )	Louis Chiron ( Bugatti )
IV	July 7, 1929	GP , VO	Circuit de Reims-Gueux	Philippe Étancelin ( Bugatti )	Juan Zanelli ( Bugatti )	Marcel Lehoux ( Bugatti )	Philippe Étancelin ( Bugatti )	Philippe Étancelin ( Bugatti )
V	June 29, 1930	GP , VO	Circuit de Reims-Gueux	René Dreyfus ( Bugatti )	Marcel Lehoux ( Bugatti )	Michel Doré ( Bugatti ) 1	unknown	René Dreyfus ( Bugatti )
VI	July 5, 1931	GP , VO	Circuit de Reims-Gueux	Marcel Lehoux ( Bugatti )	René Dreyfus ( Maserati )	Stanisław Czaykowski ( Bugatti )	René Dreyfus ( Maserati )	Marcel Lehoux ( Bugatti )
VII	1932	No Grand Prix de la Marne.
VIII	July 2, 1933	GP	Circuit de Reims-Gueux	Philippe Étancelin ( Alfa Romeo )	Jean-Pierre Wimille ( Bugatti )	Raymond Sommer ( Alfa Romeo )	Marcel Lehoux ( Bugatti )	Tazio Nuvolari ( Alfa Romeo )
IX	July 8, 1934	GP	Circuit de Reims-Gueux	Louis Chiron ( Alfa Romeo )	Guy Moll ( Alfa Romeo )	Achille Varzi / Attilio Marinoni ( Alfa Romeo )	unknown	Achille Varzi ( Alfa Romeo )
X	July 7, 1935	GP	Circuit de Reims-Gueux	René Dreyfus ( Alfa Romeo )	Louis Chiron ( Alfa Romeo )	Raymond Sommer ( Alfa Romeo )	René Dreyfus ( Alfa Romeo )	Louis Chiron ( Alfa Romeo )
		SW		Albert Perrot ( Delahaye )	Jean Trévoux ( Bugatti )	"Michel Paris" ( Delahaye )	unknown	unknown
XI	July 5, 1936	SW	Circuit de Reims-Gueux	Jean-Pierre Wimille ( Bugatti )	Robert Benoist ( Bugatti )	"Heldé" ( Talbot )	René Dreyfus ( Talbot )	René Dreyfus ( Talbot )
XII	July 18, 1937	SW	Circuit de Reims-Gueux	Jean-Pierre Wimille ( Bugatti )	Albert Divo ( Talbot )	René Le Bègue ( Talbot )	Jean-Pierre Wimille ( Bugatti )	René Carrière ( Delahaye )
	1938 to 1951	No Grand Prix de la Marne.
	June 29, 1952	F2	Circuit de Reims-Gueux	Jean Behra ( Gordini )	Giuseppe Farina ( Ferrari )	Alberto Ascari / Luigi Villoresi ( Ferrari )	Alberto Ascari ( Ferrari )	Alberto Ascari ( Ferrari )

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 .

¹ Voiturette

² Cyclecar

References

Web links

Commons : Grand Prix de la Marne  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Race results: 1925 , 1926 , 1927 , 1928 , 1929 , 1930 , 1931 , 1933 , 1934 , 1935 (Grand Prix cars) , 1935 (sports cars) , 1936 , 1937 , 1952 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ivanovsky was a native Russian, but had been in exile in France since the October Revolution