1930 Monaco Grand Prix
The II Grand Prix of Monaco ( II Grand Prix de Monaco ) took place on April 6, 1930 on the street circuit of Monte Carlo in Monaco . The race was held as a Formula Libre race without any specification of a racing formula over 100 laps of 3.180 km each, which corresponded to a total distance of 318.0 km. It was not a Grande Épreuve this year, nor was it planned as a run for the World Automobile Championship.
The winner was René Dreyfus on a privately used Bugatti Type 35B .
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With its extremely successful premiere , the Monaco Grand Prix had already established itself as one of the most important racing events. The Monaco Automobile Club was now able to choose from almost the entire European elite, in order to put together an internationally broad field appropriate to the special ambience of the venue, in which participants from no less than nine nations were represented. It was particularly significant that Bugatti and even Maserati were now represented with their factory teams and only Alfa Romeo showed restraint.
The clear favorite was, of course, local hero Louis Chiron , who competed for the official Bugatti team together with last year's winner William Grover-Williams (under the pseudonym "W. Williams") and Guy Bouriat . As usual, the team relied on its proven Bugatti Type 35C racing car with a 2-liter eight-cylinder in-line engine, which thanks to its balanced handling was ideally suited for the winding route. Luigi Arcangeli and Baconin Borzacchini , on the other hand, still had to make do with their older and somewhat clumsy 2-liter Maserati-26B , because the new Grand Prix model Maserati 26M was not yet ready for use. This year, due to misunderstandings and differences of opinion with the organizer, Rudolf Caracciola , who had brought so much color into the race last year, was not there at all. The invitation to the British Bobby Bowes, on the other hand, was more of an oversight, who already looked completely out of place among the assembled Grand Prix elite during training with his Frazer Nash and was then not given a start permit for the race.
In addition to the former Grand Prix Talbot of the Scuderia Materassi by Clemente Biondetti , the beefy but heavy-weight Mercedes-Benz SSK by Max von Arco-Zinneberg and the somewhat unwieldy Austro-Daimler ADM-R by Hans Stuck , the field was 17 participants completed by eight privately registered Bugattis with different engines. The Frenchman René Dreyfus had come up with something very special, who had a 30-liter additional tank built into the passenger seat of his 2.3-liter Bugatti Type 35B , which was looked after by the experienced Bugatti warrior Ernest Friederich , so that he could use it in the In contrast to his brand colleagues, he was able to get over the race distance without refueling.
The three Bugatti works drivers had been allocated places in the first two rows and were able to control the race from the start, while Dreyfus first had to fight his way through the field. Nevertheless, he was the only one who could follow Chiron's pace at the top, so that after the early failure of “W. Williams “was finally able to advance to second place after the first third of the race past Bouriat. At this point he was almost one lap behind the leader, who now seemed to be in control of the race and allowed his pursuer to come within 1.5 minutes. On the 83rd lap, Chiron finally made the necessary refueling stop, during which he came back on the track after 50 seconds just in front of his opponent. Both now had roughly the same amount of gasoline on board and so Dreyfus was finally able to fight past on the 85th lap and his opponent shortly afterwards thanks to the slightly more powerful performance of its 2.3 liter engine - and because of a jammed gas pedal at Chiron snatch the special bonus for the fastest lap. For the angry Ettore Bugatti , the defeat against one of his customers was doubly painful because, in addition to the lost winning bonus, he also lost advertising income, as Dreyfus had concluded contracts with suppliers other than the main plant.
Results
Registration list
Race result
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
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1 | René Dreyfus | Bugatti | 100 | 1 | 3: 41: 02,600 | 10 | 2: 07,000 | |
2 | Louis Chiron | Bugatti | 100 | 1 | + 23,800 | 5 | ||
3 | Guy Bouriat | Bugatti | 100 | 1 | + 8: 17.800 | 4th | ||
4th | Goffredo Zehender | Bugatti | 100 | 1 | + 10: 37,000 | 8th | ||
5 | Michel Doré | Bugatti | 100 | 1 | + 31: 04,000 | 9 | ||
6th | Hans Stuber | Bugatti | 94 | + 6 rounds | 3 | angled | ||
- | Juan Zanelli | Bugatti | 92 | DNF | 6th | mechanics | ||
- | Ernst Günther Burggaller | Bugatti | 62 | DNF | 17th | Engine failure | ||
- | Philippe Étancelin | Bugatti | 50 | DNF | 12 | defective fuel pump | ||
- | Marcel Lehoux | Bugatti | 47 | DNF | 7th | Axle break | ||
- | Hans Stuck | Austro-Daimler | 31 | DNF | 14th | Clutch damage after a brake defect | ||
- | William Grover-Williams | Bugatti | 29 | DNF | 1 | mechanics | ||
- | Luigi Arcangeli | Maserati | 29 | DNF | 11 | Differential damage | ||
- | Clemente Biondetti | Talbot | 14th | DNF | 13 | mechanics | ||
- | Georges Bouriano | Bugatti | 14th | DNF | 16 | Steering break | ||
- | Baconin Borzacchini | Maserati | 15th | DNF | 2 | Accident after a brake defect | ||
- | Max von Arco-Zinneberg | Mercedes | 1 | DNF | 15th | accident |
Web links
- II Grand Prix de Monaco. www.teamdan.com, accessed September 7, 2014 .
- II GRAND PRIX DE MONACO. www.kolumbus.fi, September 4, 2014, accessed September 7, 2014 (English).