1921 Italian Grand Prix
The 1st Italian Grand Prix took place on September 4, 1921 on a street circuit , the Circuito di Montichiari, between the northern Italian cities of Montichiari and Brescia . For the first time in history there was a second international Grand Prix race within one season in addition to the Grand Prix de l'ACF . The race was held in accordance with the applicable Grand Prix formula (3 liter displacement, 800 kg minimum weight, race distance at least 500 km) over 60 laps of 17.3 km each, which corresponded to a total distance of 519 km. The event was part of a racing week, during which races were organized for private men’s drivers who were not allowed to compete in the Grand Prix , for Voiturette racing cars and even for airplanes and motorcycles.
Jules Goux won the race on a Ballot 3-liter.
run
In the actual Gran Premio d'Italia - in which, as usual, only automobile manufacturers were entitled to participate - with Fiat and Ballot, only two teams with a total of only six cars were represented. Sunbeam - Talbot , SCAT and Itala had originally reported, but withdrew in advance. Fiat, too, had its new eight-cylinder 802 model ready to drive after strike-related delays in the run-up to the French Grand Prix, but the three cars for Louis Wagner , Pietro Bordino and Ugo Sivocci were no longer able to subject the three cars to a sufficient test program.
As usual, the cars were sent into the race individually at one-minute intervals and, thanks to his lead in the first third of the race, Bordino was able to at least demonstrate the basic speed of his Fiat until he was initially thrown back to second place by a tire damage to Goux and a little later because of ignition problems had to give up completely. After Sivocci had already suffered a similar fate and Wagner had also fallen behind due to tire damage, Ballot could no longer take victory after half-time of the race. The American Ralph DePalma , who felt that the team was at a disadvantage compared to his French colleagues, ended the race prematurely, but at least between Jules Goux and Jean Chassagne there was a team-internal battle for victory to entertain the spectators , which in the end Goux won after a little more than three and a half hours of racing with a little over five minutes ahead. Third was after Fiat driver Wagner, just under five minutes behind second-placed Chassagne.
The private drivers' race was won by Guido Masetti on a Benz Grand Prix model from 1914, in the Voiturette class, Ernest Friederich won the race for the works teams and Caberto Conelli in the men's drivers both on a Bugatti Type 13 , which brought the model the honorable additional designation Brescia .
Results
Registration list
| team | No. | driver | chassis | engine | tires |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Fiat
|
2 |
 Louis Wagner
|
Fiat 802 | Fiat 3L I8 | P |
| 6th |
Pietro Bordino
|
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| 10 |
Ugo Sivocci
|
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|
Automobiles ballot
|
4th |
 Ralph DePalma
|
Ballot 3 liter | Ballot 3L I8 | P |
| 8th |
Jean Chassagne
|
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| 11 |
Jules Goux
|
Race result
| Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Jules Goux
|
Ballot
|
30th | 5 | 3: 35: 09,000 | 6th | ||
| 2 |
Jean Chassagne
|
Ballot
|
30th | + 5: 41,000 | 5 | |||
| 3 |
Louis Wagner
|
Fiat
|
30th | + 10: 22,000 | 1 | |||
| - |
 Ralph DePalma
|
Ballot
|
21st | DNF | 2 | mechanics | ||
| - |
Ugo Sivocci
|
Fiat
|
18th | DNF | 5 | Engine failure | ||
| - |
Pietro Bordino
|
Fiat
|
16 | DNF | 3 | 6: 54,200 | Magneto |
literature
- Adriano Cimarosti: Car races - The great prices of the world - cars, tracks and pilots from 1894 to today , Hallwag Verlag, Bern, 1986, ISBN 3-444-10326-3
- Paul Sheldon: A Record of Grand Prix and Voiturette Racing, Vol. 1-13 , St. Leonards Press, Bradford, 1987-2002
Web links
- 1921 Grand Prix. (No longer available online.) Www.teamdan.com, archived from the original on January 29, 2019 ; accessed on June 24, 2020 (English).