1922 Italian Grand Prix
The 2nd Italian Grand Prix took place on September 10, 1922 at the Autodromo di Milano in Monza . The Gran Premio d'Italia found its traditional home ground, on which all previous races with five exceptions have been held.
The race was held in accordance with the applicable Grand Prix formula (2 liter displacement, 650 kg minimum weight, race distance at least 800 km) over 80 laps of 10 km each, which corresponded to a total distance of 800 km.
The winner was Pietro Bordino in a Fiat .
run
The track, which was built in just 100 days of construction - originally called the Circuito di Milano - consisted of a 5.5 km road circuit and a 4.5 km high-speed oval and was only on August 15, less than a month before the Grand Prix, has been completed. This makes it the first permanent and continuously paved race track on which Grand Prix races were held, and is also the oldest facility of its kind on which Formula 1 races are regularly held to this day .
For the race, which was held according to the official Grand Prix formula adopted by the AIACR for 1922 (engine capacity 2 liters, minimum car weight 650 kg, minimum race distance 800 km), no fewer than 13 different works teams had originally registered a total of 39 participants . With Mercedes , Benz , Austro-Daimler and Heim, for the first time after the First World War, an organizer of a Grand Prix also allowed entries from German and Austrian automobile companies. However, after the Fiat team's racing cars had driven the competition to the ground at the previous Grand Prix de l'ACF in Strasbourg , one manufacturer after another recognized the hopelessness of the undertaking and saved the journey. When the Austrian Austro-Daimler team also withdrew its racing team after the death of factory driver Gregor Kuhn during training, in the end there were still five other participants in addition to the three Fiat drivers Pietro Bordino , Felice Nazzaro and Enrico Giaccone . The only serious Fiat competitor among these was the factory Bugatti owned by Pierre de Vizcaya , who had to travel from Alsace on his own, so that the car was already showing some signs of wear and tear. The two Diatto , on the other hand, were just as hopeless as the two cars that Heim had sent into the race, which were basically slightly modified, significantly underpowered sports car models whose speed was 20 km / h below that of the Fiat. Franz Heim was a mechanic at Benz before the war and in 1912 he joined the Lorraine-Dietrich Grand Prix team as a driver , before setting up his own modest automobile production facility in Mannheim after the war and participating in the Italian Grand Prix his team mate Reinhold Stahl himself represented the colors of his racing team.
As before at the French Grand Prix , the race began with a mass start. Right at the beginning, Giaccone's Fiat broke down with a defective power transmission, and Heim's cars only last a little longer. After the two Diattos of Alfieri Maserati and Guido Meregalli had also retired in the middle of the race, only three cars remained with the two Fiat of Bordino and Nazzaro before de Vizcaya on Bugatti for the second half of the race distance. De Vizcaya, who at the beginning had surprisingly been able to keep up with the Fiat, was thrown back after a short time after pit stops due to mechanical defects in his not quite fresh car. Bordino finally won two laps ahead of his stable mate Nazzaro and another two laps on de Vizcaya. The race was thus also the first Grand Prix in history, in which the participants who remained in the race did not have to finish the race over the full distance, but were waved off immediately after the winner had crossed the finish line.
Results
Registration list
Race result
| Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Pietro Bordino
|
Fiat
|
80 | 5: 43: 13,000 | 3 | 4: 05,000 | ||
| 2 |
Felice Nazzaro
|
Fiat
|
78 | + 2 rounds | 2 | |||
| 3 |
.svg){kind=small} Pierre de Vizcaya
|
 Bugatti
|
76 | + 4 rounds | 4th | |||
| - |
Guido Meregalli
|
Diatto
|
52 | DNF | 5 | mechanics | ||
| - |
Alfieri Maserati
|
Diatto
|
27 | DNF | 7th | accident | ||
| - |
.svg){kind=small} Franz Heim
|
home
|
16 | DNF | 1 | failure | ||
| - |
Reinhold Stahl
|
home
|
12 | DNF | 8th | failure | ||
| - |
Enrico Giaccone
|
Fiat
|
1 | DNF | 6th | Power transmission | ||
| - |
Arthur Henney
|
home
|
DNS | not started | ||||
| - |
 Gregor Kuhn
|
Austro-Daimler
|
DNS | fatal accident during training | ||||
| - |
Alfred Neubauer
|
Austro-Daimler
|
DNS | withdrawn | ||||
| - |
Lambert Pocher
|
Austro-Daimler
|
DNS | withdrawn |
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
