1937 French Grand Prix

The XXXI. The French Grand Prix ( XXXI Grand Prix de l' Automobile Club de France ) took place on July 4, 1937 at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry in France .

The race was held over 40 laps of 12.609 km, which corresponded to a total distance of 504.360 km. In contrast to previous years, when the Grand Prix was always part of the AIACR European Championship , this year the race was advertised as a sports car race .

Registration list

No.	driver	constructor	vehicle	team	comment
06th	Raymond Summers	Talbot	Talbot-Lago T150C	Automobiles Talbot
08th	Albert Divo	Talbot	Talbot-Lago T150C	Automobiles Talbot
10	Gianfranco Comotti	Talbot	Talbot-Lago T150C	Automobiles Talbot
12	Louis Chiron	Talbot	Talbot-Lago T150C	Automobiles Talbot
14th	Jean-Pierre Wimille	Bugatti	Bugatti T57C	Private
16	Robert Benoist	Bugatti	Bugatti T57C	Private
18th	René Dreyfus	Delahaye	Delahaye 135CS	Écurie Bleue
20th	Laury Schell	Delahaye	Delahaye 135CS	Écurie Bleue
22nd	René Carrière	Delahaye	Delahaye 135CS	Écurie Bleue
24	Louis Villeneuve	Delahaye	Delahaye 135CS	Private
26th	Daniel Porthault	Delahaye	Delahaye 135CS	Private
28	Eugène Chaboud / Jean Trémoulet	Delahaye	Delahaye 135CS	Private
30th	Genaro Leóz Abad / Raymond de Saugé	Bugatti	Bugatti T57C	Private

Race result

Item	No.	driver	constructor	Round	time	Failure reason
1	12	Louis Chiron	Talbot	40	3: 46: 01.6 h
2	10	Gianfranco Comotti	Talbot	40	+ 02: 06.4 min
3	08th	Albert Divo	Talbot	40	+ 03: 42.8 min
4th	22nd	René Carrière	Delahaye	49	+ 01 lap
5	06th	Raymond Summers	Talbot	48	+ 02 rounds
6th	28	Eugène Chaboud / Jean Trémoulet	Delahaye	33	+ 07 rounds
DNF	30th	Genaro Leóz Abad / Raymond de Saugé	Bugatti	27		engine
DNF	26th	Daniel Porthault	Delahaye	24		accident
DNF	24	Louis Villeneuve	Delahaye	16		engine
DNF	20th	Laury Schell	Delahaye	14th		accident
DNF	18th	René Dreyfus	Delahaye	8th		transmission
DNF	14th	Jean-Pierre Wimille	Bugatti
DSQ	16	Robert Benoist	Bugatti

Fastest race lap : Louis Chiron ( Talbot ), 5: 29.7 min = 137.678 km / h  

References

Web links

Commons : Automobilsport 1937  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Rémi Paolozzi: The 1937 French Drivers Championship - How Raymond Sommer became the first Champion de France in History. www.forix.com, March 7, 2007, accessed May 15, 2020 . 
• GP de l'ACF www.wsrp.cz, March 7, 2007, accessed on May 15, 2020 (English). 

Remarks

1. ↑ There are conflicting sources as to when the first Grand Prix was and from when the editions were counted. The counting method was defined retrospectively in the 1920s, based on the determination that the first Grand Prix took place in 1898 . This counting method made the first French event in the first Grand Prix season in 1906 the ninth Grand Prix de l'ACF , and later also the ninth Grand Prix de la France . The 1950 Grand Prix officially started with the 37th edition, from this year the edition numbers are occupied. This numbering was after the 1968 renaming of the Grand Prix de l'ACF for Grand Prix de France continued further throughout.