1932 Monaco Grand Prix

Race winner Tazio Nuvolari in an Alfa Romeo

Eral Howe in front of Guy Bouriat in the Hairpin station at the old station

Tazio Nuvolari in the concierge corner

The IV Monaco Grand Prix ( IV Grand Prix de Monaco ) took place on April 19, 1932 on the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo . The race was held without a predetermined racing formula for the cars over 100 laps of 3.180 km, which corresponded to a total distance of 318.0 km. It was not a Grande Épreuve this year and was therefore not counted for the European Grand Prix Championship .

The winner was Tazio Nuvolari in an Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 type "Monza" .

run

Although the entry list for the Monaco Grand Prix of 1932 with 19 participants from seven nations contained slightly fewer entries and also offered a slightly lower international diversity than in previous years, the European top was represented for the first time without exception. Which is now included for the first time the official factory team of Alfa Romeo with its three top drivers Tazio Nuvolari , Baconin Borzacchini  - of his first name recently less compromising in the fascist under the regime of Italy Mario Umberto had changed - and Giuseppe Campari three Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 "Monza" type . A fourth works car of the team should actually have been driven by the German Rudolf Caracciola , but because of the resistance of the three regular drivers he had to be content with a nominally privately registered "Monza" painted in the German racing color white, despite the contractual commitment to the factory.

Bugatti also appeared in full strength, having arrived with four of its 1931 Bugatti Type 51s for last year's winner Louis Chiron , the Italian superstar Achille Varzi and the two long-time regular drivers Albert Divo and Guy Bouriat . The team also had the prototype of the new Bugatti Type 53 with them, the first Grand Prix racing car with all-wheel drive . With its 5-liter in-line eight-cylinder, also used in the Bugatti Type 54 , and the heavy drive mechanism on the winding track, the car proved to be practically inaccessible during training, so Divo drove the race with his normal Type 51 . Despite the death of company boss Alfieri Maserati, Maserati brought two Maserati 26Ms equipped with the current 2.8 liter engine for the two regular drivers Luigi Fagioli and René Dreyfus , plus another similar model from the previous year with a 2.5 liter displacement for newcomers Amedeo Ruggeri . The field was filled in by well-known private drivers such as the winner of 1929 , William Grover-Williams (Bugatti 51) - again under the pseudonym “W. Williams “-, Philippe Étancelin (Alfa Romeo" Monza ") - after all, winner of the French Grand Prix of 1930 - Marcel Lehoux (Bugatti 51), Goffredo Zehender (Alfa Romeo" Monza "), Earl Francis Howe (Bugatti 51), the Pole Stanisław Czaykowski and the Chilean Juan Zanelli on a hopelessly slow Nacional Pescara from Spain.

In 1932 the starting grid was drawn and Chiron made use of his good position in the second row and set himself apart from the crowd with his Bugatti. Behind them, Nuvolari needed nine laps in the Alfa Romeo to work his way through the field and past Lehoux and "Williams" to second place. A little later, Varzi (Bugatti) was also in third place, while Chiron had already worked out a lead of half a minute. However, he had to start lapping on lap 26 and lost so much time that Nuvolari was able to catch up with him. Under pressure as a result, the Chiron tried to squeeze past Czaikowski (Bugatti) in the chicane, but probably brushed one of the sandbags, causing his car to be lifted and overturned. Nuvolari was just able to avoid Chiron, who was lying on the track and fortunately had no serious injuries.

Now it was Nuvolari's turn to break away from Varzi until halfway through the race, who again had problems with the rear axle of his Bugatti and finally had to give up. Behind them, the two Alfa Romeos from Caracciola and Borzacchini had been in wait and now moved up to ranks two and three, around 30 seconds behind their brand colleague at the top. While Borzacchini was eliminated on lap 85 due to fading brakes, Caracciola was steadily getting closer to Nuvolari, who initially seemed to be holding his lead, but after his high pace in the early stages, he got into trouble in the final laps of the race due to a lack of fuel. Caracciola, who, in contrast to Nuvolari, had driven less aggressively and thus more economically throughout the race, could have overtaken Nuvolari, who was driving with a stuttering engine, in the end, but contented himself with the style of a gentleman - and possibly with consideration for his own career interests too. on crossing the finish line directly on the rear wheel of his brand-name but not yet officially team-mate. As a thank you for this, he received an official works car at the Italian Grand Prix in June.

Results

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Rudolf Caracciola	02	Rudolf Caracciola	Alfa Romeo Monza	Alfa Romeo 2.3L I8 compressor
Earl Howe	04th	Earl Howe	Bugatti T51	Bugatti 2.3L I8 compressor	D.
Clifton Penn-Hughes	06th	Clifton Penn-Hughes	Bugatti T35B	Bugatti 2.3L I8 compressor	D.
Juan Zanelli	08th	Juan Zanelli	Nacional Pescara	Nacional Pescara 3.0L I6
Automobiles Ettore Bugatti	10	Guy Bouriat	Bugatti T51	Bugatti 2.3L I8 compressor	M.
	12	Louis Chiron
	14th	Albert Divo
	16	Achille Varzi
	14th	Albert Divo	Bugatti T53	Bugatti 5.0L V16
Stanislaw Czaykowski	18th	Stanislaw Czaykowski	Bugatti T51	Bugatti 2.3L I8 compressor
Marcel Lehoux	20th	Marcel Lehoux	Bugatti T51	Bugatti 2.3L I8 compressor
William Grover-Williams	22nd	William Grover-Williams	Bugatti T51	Bugatti 2.3L I8 compressor	D.
SA Alfa Romeo	24	Baconin Borzacchini	Alfa Romeo Monza	Alfa Romeo 2.3L I8 compressor	P
	26th	Giuseppe Campari
	28	Tazio Nuvolari
Philippe Étancelin	30th	Philippe Étancelin	Alfa Romeo Monza	Alfa Romeo 2.3L I8 compressor
Goffredo Zehender	32	Goffredo Zehender	Alfa Romeo Monza	Alfa Romeo 2.3L I8 compressor
Officine Alfieri Maserati	34	René Dreyfus	Maserati 8C 2800	Maserati 2.8L I8 supercharger	P
	36	Luigi Fagioli
	38	Amedeo Ruggeri	Maserati 26M	Maserati 2.5L I8 compressor

Race result

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Tazio Nuvolari	Alfa Romeo	100	1	3: 32: 25,200	11
02	Rudolf Caracciola	Alfa Romeo	100	1	+ 2.800	13
03	Luigi Fagioli	Maserati	100	1	+ 2: 17.800	17th
04th	Earl Howe	Bugatti	98	1	+ 2 rounds	14th
05	Goffredo Zehender	Alfa Romeo	96	1	+ 4 rounds	16
06th	Marcel Lehoux	Bugatti	95	1	+ 5 rounds	7th
07th	William Grover-Williams	Bugatti	95	1	+ 5 rounds	1
08th	Guy Bouriat	Bugatti	93	1	+ 7 rounds	10
09	Albert Divo	Bugatti	91	1	+ 9 rounds	15th
10	Giuseppe Campari	Alfa Romeo	86		+ 14 rounds	5
-	Baconin Borzacchini	Alfa Romeo	85		DNF	8th		Brake defect
-	René Dreyfus	Bugatti	57		DNF	9		Wheel lost after drive shaft damage
-	Achille Varzi	Bugatti	56		DNF	12	2: 02,000	Axle break
-	Philippe Étancelin	Alfa Romeo	49		DNF	2		Gearbox damage
-	Stanislaw Czaykowski	Bugatti	49		DNF	6th		Gearbox damage
-	Louis Chiron	Bugatti	29		DNF	4th		accident
-	Amedeo Ruggeri	Maserati	12		DNF	3		Compressor damage

Web links

Commons : Monaco Grand Prix 1932  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• IV Grand Prix de Monaco. www.teamdan.com, accessed September 8, 2014 . 
• IV GRAND PRIX DE MONACO. www.kolumbus.fi, April 2, 2013, accessed September 8, 2014 .