Great Britain Grand Prix 1927
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The II. RAC Grand Prix - as the race was officially called - took place on October 1st, 1927 at the Brooklands racecourse in England and was the last race of the automobile world championship that year. The race was held using the applicable International Grand Prix racing formula (racing cars up to 1.5 liters capacity; minimum weight 700 kg, body width at least 80 cm) over 125 laps of 4.21 km, which corresponded to a total distance of 526.25 km . Although the race distance was extended by 15 laps compared to the previous year, the British Grand Prix did not meet the minimum distance of 600 km actually stipulated in the regulations in 1927. Nevertheless, the race was counted as a run for the world championship.
The winner was Robert Benoist in a Delage Type 15 S 8 , who was the first driver to win four Grands Prix in direct order.
run
The last Grand Prix race based on the 1.5 liter formula was again a largely unspectacular affair. As in the previous year, attempts had been made to make the Brooklands racecourse a little more demanding and more Grand Prix suitable by means of two chicanes made from sandbags, but the Delage Type 15 S 8 from Robert Benoist , Edmond Bourlier and Albert Divo were here due to the superior engine power practically unbeatable , especially since Fiat had immediately mothballed the new twelve-cylinder model Fiat 806 after its brief appearance at the Gran Premio di Milano . Company owner Giovanni Agnelli had decided once and for all not to contest any more automobile races.
At most, the three Bugatti Type 39A from the works team with Emilio Materassi , Caberto Conelli and Louis Chiron at the wheel came into question as competition for Delage , while the other participants - three other Bugatti in private hands and two Thomas Specials with the outcome of the race - didn't get much had to do. Accordingly, in the pouring rain, the three Delage were together in the front after just a few laps and were then only seen by their opponents when lapping them. Apart from a few failures among the backbenchers, there was practically no change of position until the end of the race at Delage Stallorder that the race should end in the order Benoist - Bourlier - Divo. Benoist was the first driver ever to achieve the rare feat of winning all the Grands Prix of a season for his team.
Also worth mentioning is the act of Caberto Conelli, who pushed his Bugatti, which had broken down due to a carburetor problem, almost three kilometers around the course to the pits, where the car was repaired and then taken over by the Briton William Grover-Williams, who drives under the pseudonym W. Williams .
Results
Registration list
team | No. | driver | chassis | engine | tires |
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1 |
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Bugatti T39A | Bugatti 1.5L I8 compressor | |
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2 |
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Delage Type 15 S 8 1927 | Delage 1.5L I8 | M. |
3 |
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4th |
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5 |
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Bugatti T39A | Bugatti 1.5L I8 compressor | |
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6th |
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Thomas Special | ||
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7th |
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Thomas Special | ||
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8th |
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Duesenberg special | Duesenberg 1.5L I8 | F. |
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9 |
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Alvis GP | Alvis 1.5L I6 | |
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10 |
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Bugatti T39A | Bugatti 1.5L I8 compressor | M. |
11 |
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12 |
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14th |
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Bugatti T37A | Bugatti 1.5L I4 compressor | |
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15th |
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Fiat 806 | Fiat 806 1.5L 2xI6 | P |
16 |
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17th |
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Race result
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
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125 | 3: 49: 14.6 h | 2 | |||
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125 | + 7.0 s | 3 | |||
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125 | + 3: 05.4 min | 4th | |||
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125 | + 28: 35.4 min | 10 | |||
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118 | + 7 rounds | 8th | |||
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106 | NC | 9 | |||
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97 | DNF | 5 | stuck valves | ||
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95 | DNF | 1 | Compressor damage | ||
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28 | DNF | 11 | defective intake manifold | ||
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9 | DNF | 7th | Gearbox damage | ||
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8th | DNF | 6th | Clutch damage |
literature
- Adriano Cimarosti: Car races - The great prices of the world, cars, tracks and pilots from 1894 to today , Hallwag AG, Bern, 1986, ISBN 3-444-10326-3
- Paul Sheldon with Yves de la Gorce & Duncan Rabagliati: A Record of Grand Prix and Voiturette Racing, Volume 2 1926–1931 , St. Leonard's Press, Bradford, 1990, ISBN 0-9512433-3-0 (English)
- Karl Ludvigsen: Classic Grand Prix Cars - The front-engined Formula 1 Era 1906–1960 , Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2000, ISBN 0-7509-2189-7
- Hodges, David: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars , The Crowood Press, Ramsbury, 2001, ISBN 1-86126-339-2
Web links
- Leif Snellman, Felix Muelas: BRITISH GRAND PRIX. In: www.kolumbus.fi. January 16, 2018, accessed on March 21, 2020 .