1936 Italian Grand Prix

The Autodromo di Milano in its driven version

Alfa Romeo 12C-36

The XV. The Italian Grand Prix took place on September 13, 1936 at the Autodromo di Milano in Monza . As Grande Épreuve , he was part of the European Grand Prix Championship in 1936 and was carried out over 72 laps of 7.0 km each in accordance with the provisions of the International Grand Prix Formula (racing cars up to a maximum of 750 kg empty weight; 85 cm minimum width; race distance at least 500 km) , which corresponded to a total distance of 504.0 km.

The winner was Bernd Rosemeyer in an Auto Union "Type C" , which at the same time secured the title of European Champion .

run

After failing again at the Swiss Grand Prix , Mercedes-Benz withdrew completely from the Grand Prix stage for the rest of the season in order to concentrate on developing a new model for 1937 . The Auto Union team that had dominated the season so far was clearly the favorites for the last Grande Épreuve of the year. The team appeared with their usual regular line-up, championship leader Bernd Rosemeyer , Achille Varzi and Hans Stuck , while the fourth car this time was again made available to the young driver Ernst von Delius .

After the disappearance of Mercedes-Benz, the main competitor was of course Alfa Romeo , represented by Scuderia Ferrari as always . In contrast to the Stuttgart-based company, the Italians continued to face the challenge despite their previous defeats and competed with a total of four current Alfa Romeo 12C-36 models with V12 engines, which had been completely redesigned since the total failure of Bern. In addition to the regular drivers Tazio Nuvolari , René Dreyfus and Giuseppe Farina , Antonio Brivio was planned as the fourth driver . However, he had an accident during training, so that Carlo Pintacuda joined the team as reserve with an older eight-cylinder Alfa Romeo 8C-35 .

Since Bugatti had not got the new Bugatti Type 59 / 50B - Monoposto afloat again since the Swiss Grand Prix, the field was finally completed by four Maserati alone , but only the Maserati V8-RI driven by Carlo Felice Trossi was a reasonably modern, if not overly competitive model.

As in the previous year, the combination of road and oval course, named after race director Vincenzo Florio , was chosen in Monza.However, the five chicanes distributed over the track were slightly modified, so that the load on the brakes was a little stronger. For the first time, the starting grid at the Italian Grand Prix was also based on the training times achieved, so that the two Auto Unions of Rosemeyer and Stuck, together with Nuvolaris Alfa Romeo, occupied the front row of the grid.

When the starting flag fell, it was Stuck who did the best, and just one lap later Rosemeyer had passed Nuvolari, so that once again two Auto Union racing cars were leading a Grand Prix. Behind the third-placed Alfa Romeo, the other two cars of the German team followed directly. It wasn't long before the fifth-placed Delius junior driver overtook his much more famous Italian stable mate , who drove a little inspired race. Varzi, whose increasing drug consumption was already known in the team, almost literally slept through the race completely and only appeared at the track a few minutes before the start. On the eleventh lap he finally came to the pits with the engine over-revving and the brakes overstrained, and despite intense discussion, he refused to continue the race. In his place, reserve driver Rudolf Hasse took over the cockpit, but only got a few laps before the engine finally failed.

In the meantime, Rosemeyer had taken the lead from Stuck on the fourth lap. Nuvolari soon came by too, but couldn't shake the Auto Union driver off. When both started to lap Trossi (Maserati) on lap 17, Stuck made a mistake, got off the track with his Auto Union and was thrown out of the car in the subsequent accident. Fortunately, his injuries weren't life threatening, but that ended the race for him.

Afterwards, the race clearly stabilized and slowly a certain monotony spread, which could not be broken even during the pit stops that were due in the middle of the race. Only von Delius fell behind Dreyfus in the second Alfa Romeo and was only able to restore the old order four laps before the end. Rosemeyer, on the other hand, had the race under control at all times and in the end secured the undisputed European title with his victory.

Results

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Auto Union AG	02	Hans Stuck	Auto Union C	Auto Union 6.0L V16 compressor	C.
	04th	Bernd Rosemeyer
	06th	Achille Varzi
	08th	Ernst von Delius
		Rudolf Hasse
Scuderia Torino	10	Carlo Felice Trossi	Maserati V8-RI	Maserati 4.8L V8 supercharger	P
		Ettore Bianco
	16	Piero Dusio	Maserati 6C-34	Maserati 3.7L I6 compressor
Scuderia Maremmana	12	Clemente Biondetti	Maserati 6C-34	Maserati 3.7L I6 compressor	P
	14th	Pietro Ghersi
		Jacques de Rham
Scuderia Ferrari	18th	Tazio Nuvolari	Alfa Romeo 12C-36	Alfa Romeo 4.1L V12 compressor	E.
	20th	Antonio Brivio
	22nd	Giuseppe Farina
	24	René Dreyfus
	20th	Carlo Maria Pintacuda	Alfa Romeo 8C-35	Alfa Romeo 3.8L I8 compressor

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Qualification training		begin
			time	Ø speed
01	Bernd Rosemeyer	Auto Union	2: 56.4 min	142.860 km / h	01
02	Hans Stuck	Auto Union	2: 58.8 min	140.940 km / h	02
03	Tazio Nuvolari	Alfa Romeo	3: 00.6 min	139.530 km / h	03
04th	Ernst von Delius	Auto Union	3: 01.8 min	138.610 km / h	04th
05	Achille Varzi	Auto Union	3: 02.0 min	138.460 km / h	05
06th	Giuseppe Farina	Alfa Romeo	3: 10.0 min	132.630 km / h	06th
07th	Carlo Maria Pintacuda	Alfa Romeo	no time		07th
08th	René Dreyfus	Alfa Romeo	no time		08th
09	Carlo Felice Trossi	Maserati	no time		09
10	Piero Dusio	Maserati	no time		10
11	Clemente Biondetti	Maserati	no time		11
12	Pietro Ghersi	Maserati	no time		12

Race result

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason	EM points
01	Bernd Rosemeyer	Auto Union	72		3: 43: 25.0 h	1	2: 59.6 min		1
02	Tazio Nuvolari	Alfa Romeo	72		+ 2: 05.3 min	3			2
03	Ernst von Delius	Auto Union	70		+ 2 rounds	4th			3
04th	René Dreyfus	Alfa Romeo	70		+ 2 rounds	8th			4th
05	Carlo Maria Pintacuda	Alfa Romeo	68		+ 4 rounds	7th			4th
06th	Piero Dusio	Maserati	59		+ 11 rounds	10			4th
07th	Carlo Felice Trossi Ettore Bianco	Maserati	49		+ 21 rounds	9			5 / -
-	Giuseppe Farina	Alfa Romeo	57		DNF	6th		accident	4th
-	Clemente Biondetti	Alfa Romeo	30th		DNF	11		Engine failure	6th
-	Achille Varzi Rudolf Hasse	Auto Union	16		DNF	5		Engine failure	7 / -
-	Hans Stuck	Auto Union	16		DNF	2		accident	7th
-	Pietro Ghersi	Maserati	2		DNF	12		Engine failure	7th

Legend
colour	meaning	EM points
gold	victory	1
silver	2nd place	2
bronze	3rd place	3
neutral	covered more than 75% of the race distance	4th
	covered between 50% and 75% of the race distance	5
	covered between 25% and 50% of the race distance	6th
	covered less than 25% of the race distance	7th
	DNF - race not finished (did not finish)	8th
	not started or not started
black	DSQ - disqualified

Web links

• XIV Gran Premio d'Italia. www.teamdan.com, accessed on August 11, 2014 . 
• Leif Snellman, Felix Muelas: XIV ° GRAN PREMIO D'ITALIA. www.kolumbus.fi, July 14, 2014, accessed on August 11, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The type designation of the Auto Union racing cars was only introduced later by specialist authors to differentiate between the individual models