1930 Monaco Grand Prix

Race winner René Dreyfus

Louis Chiron in the Bugatti in front of the Hôtel de Paris

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 .

run

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

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Max von Arco-Zinneberg	02	Max von Arco-Zinneberg	Mercedes-Benz SSK	Mercedes-Benz M06 7.1L I6 compressor	C.
Rudolf Caracciola	04th	Rudolf Caracciola	Mercedes-Benz SSK	Mercedes-Benz M06 7.1L I6 compressor	C.
Bugatti Team Germany	06th	Ernst Günther Burggaller	Bugatti T35A	Bugatti 1.5L I4
Hans Stuck	08th	Hans Stuck	Austro-Daimler ADM-R	Austro-Daimler 3.6L I6	S.
Emil Frankl	10	Emil Frankl	Steyr VI Sport	Steyr 4.6L I6	S.
Georges Bouriano	12	Georges Bouriano	Bugatti T35B	Bugatti 2.3L I8 compressor
Juan Zanelli	14th	Juan Zanelli	Bugatti T35B	Bugatti 2.3L I8 compressor
Automobiles Ettore Bugatti	16	Guy Bouriat	Bugatti T35C	Bugatti 2.0L I8 compressor	M.
	18th	Louis Chiron
	28	William Grover-Williams
Michel Doré	20th	Michel Doré	Bugatti T35A	Bugatti 1.5L I4
Ecurie Friederich	22nd	René Dreyfus	Bugatti T35A	Bugatti 1.5L I4
Philippe Étancelin	24	Philippe Étancelin	Bugatti T35C	Bugatti 2.0L I8 compressor
Marcel Lehoux	26th	Marcel Lehoux	Bugatti T35B	Bugatti 2.3L I8 compressor
Bobby Bowes	30th	Bobby Bowes	Frazer Nash	Frazer Nash 1.5L I4
Officine Alfieri Maserati	32	Luigi Arcangeli	Maserati 26B	Maserati 2.0L I8	P
	34	Baconin Borzacchini
Scuderia Materassi	36	Clemente Biondetti	Talbot-Darracq 700	Talbot 1.5L I8 compressor
	38	Emil Bourlier
Scuderia Ferrari	40	Enzo Ferrari	Alfa Romeo P2	Alfa Romeo 2.0L I8 compressor	E.
		Giuseppe Campari
Goffredo Zehender	42	Goffredo Zehender	Bugatti T35B	Bugatti 2.3L I8 compressor
Tomás Veličkovič	44	Tomás Veličkovič	Bugatti T35A	Bugatti 1.5L I4
Hans Stuber	46	Hans Stuber	Bugatti T35C	Bugatti 2.0L I8 compressor

Race result

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	René Dreyfus	Bugatti	100	1	3: 41: 02,600	10	2: 07,000
02	Louis Chiron	Bugatti	100	1	+ 23,800	5
03	Guy Bouriat	Bugatti	100	1	+ 8: 17.800	4th
04th	Goffredo Zehender	Bugatti	100	1	+ 10: 37,000	8th
05	Michel Doré	Bugatti	100	1	+ 31: 04,000	9
06th	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

Commons : Monaco Grand Prix 1930  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 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).