1922 French Grand Prix
The XVI. French Grand Prix ( XVI Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France ) took place on July 16, 1922 at the Circuit de Strasbourg around Duppigheim near Strasbourg in France . The race was held in accordance with the newly issued Grand Prix formula (2 liter displacement, 650 kg minimum weight, race distance at least 800 km) over 60 laps of 13.38 km, which corresponded to a total distance of 802.88 km. For the first time in Grand Prix history, a mass start was carried out, albeit initially in the form of a flying start , in which the cars - led by a motorcyclist - slowly rolled along in a previously drawn formation until the race was released.
run
The overwhelming superiority of Fiat had already become apparent during training , when the three drivers of the team, Pietro Bordino , old master Felice Nazzaro and his young nephew Biagio (as a Grand Prix newcomer) regularly with the new six-cylinder model 804-404 Lap times 30 seconds faster than the other 15 participants on five different makes. In the race this developed into a veritable show of power, especially since some manufacturers had responded by shortening the drive ratio, which now led to numerous engine damage among the competitors. At halftime, eleven of the 18 participants who had started were already out of the race, including the entire Rolland-Pilain , Sunbeam and Aston Martin teams - where the millionaire and gentleman driver built and used the car, which only had a 1.5-liter four-cylinder Louis Zborowski had been funded. At the top, however, the three Fiat drivers were already well ahead. Only the Alsatian Bugatti driver Ernest Friederich was initially able to keep up with Fiat due to his good track knowledge, until he too had to give up on lap 16 with an engine failure. After three quarters of the race distance, the last remaining ballot from Giulio Foresti had to give up the sails, so that next to the three leading Fiat only the Bugattis of Pierre de Vizcaya , Pierre Marco and Jacques Mones-Maury - albeit with a considerable backlog - were still represented in the race.
Nevertheless, the dramatic events at the end of the race put Fiat victory in serious danger again when all three of the team's racing cars broke the rear axle due to a design fault. After Biagio Nazzaro had lost a wheel as a result of this at high speed and was killed when his car rolled over, Bordino survived his accident caused by a similar defect two laps before the end of the race, at least without major health consequences. Felice Nazzaro, who continued to drive after the death of his nephew, was able, after a total time of over six hours and with an average of 127.67 km / h, to manage his car, which was also battered, despite his time advantage of almost an hour on the second-placed Bugatti driver de Vizcaya just about to cross the finish line for the last significant victory of his career. With Pierre Marco in a Bugatti, there was only one other driver who was about 90 minutes behind in the standings.
Results
Registration list
team | No. | driver | chassis | engine | tires |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SA Mathis | 1 | Mathis | M. | ||
Société Lyonnaise de l'Industrie Mécanique et Autos Pilain | 2 | Slim pilain | M. | ||
Delage et Compagnie | 3 | Delage | |||
10 | |||||
Fiat | 4th | Felice Nazzaro | Fiat 804 | Fiat Type 404 2.0L I6 | P |
11 | Pietro Bordino | ||||
17th | Biagio Nazzaro | ||||
Usines Bugatti | 5 | Ernest Friederich | Bugatti T30 | Bugatti 2.0L I8 | |
12 | Pierre de Vizcaya | ||||
18th | Jacques Mones-Maury | ||||
22nd | Pierre Marco | ||||
SA des Établissements Rolland-Pilain | 6th | Albert Guyot | Rolland-Pilain A22 | Rolland-Pilain 2.0L I8 | |
13 | Victor Hémery | ||||
19th | Louis Wagner | ||||
Automobiles ballot | 7th | Jules Goux | Ballot 2-liter S. | Ballot 2.0L I4 | |
14th | Giulio Foresti | ||||
20th | Giulio Masetti | ||||
Aston Martin Cars | 8th | Clive Gallop | Aston Martin GP | Aston Martin 1.5L I4 | |
15th | Louis Zborowski | ||||
Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq Motors | 9 | Jean Chassagne | Sunbeam GP | Sunbeam 2.0L I4 | |
16 | Kenelm Lee Guinness | ||||
22nd | Henry Segrave |
Race result
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Felice Nazzaro | Fiat | 60 | 6: 17: 17,000 | 1 | 5: 43,000 | ||
2 | Pierre de Vizcaya | Bugatti | 60 | + 57: 42.800 | 8th | |||
3 | Pierre Marco | Bugatti | 60 | +1: 30: 47,200 | 18th | |||
4th | Pietro Bordino | Fiat | 58 | + 2 rounds | 7th | accident | ||
- | Jacques Mones-Maury | Bugatti | 57 | NC | 14th | |||
- | Biagio Nazzaro | Fiat | 57 | DNF | 13 | deadly accident | ||
- | Giulio Foresti | Ballot | 44 | DNF | 10 | Engine failure | ||
- | Jules Goux | Ballot | 31 | DNF | 4th | accident | ||
- | Clive Gallop | Aston Martin | 30th | DNF | 5 | Engine failure | ||
- | Henry Segrave | Sunbeam | 29 | DNF | 17th | Engine failure | ||
- | Louis Zborowski | Aston Martin | 19th | DNF | 11 | Engine failure | ||
- | Giulio Masetti | Ballot | 15th | DNF | 16 | Engine failure | ||
- | Ernest Friederich | Bugatti | 14th | DNF | 2 | Engine failure | ||
- | Victor Hémery | Rolland Pilain | 12 | DNF | 9 | Cylinder overheated | ||
- | Kenelm Lee Guinness | Sunbeam | 5 | DNF | 12 | Engine failure | ||
- | Jean Chassagne | Sunbeam | 5 | DNF | 6th | Engine failure | ||
- | Albert Guyot | Rolland Pilain | 2 | DNF | 3 | Engine failure | ||
- | Louis Wagner | Rolland Pilain | 2 | DNF | 15th | Engine failure |
Web links
- XVI Grand Prix de l'ACF www.teamdan.com, accessed on April 3, 2015 (English).
Remarks
- ↑ The first race organized as the Grand Prix de l'ACF took place in 1906. In the 1920s, however, the "big" city-to-city races of the early years between 1895 and 1903 were also awarded these titles, although the ACF was founded after the Paris-Bordeaux-Paris race in 1895. This counting method made the event from 1906 the official ninth Grand Prix de l'ACF. This numbering was after the 1968 renaming of the Grand Prix de l'ACF for Grand Prix de France continued further throughout.