Pescara Grand Prix
 Circuito di Pescara
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| Main sponsor: | none |
| in the racing calendar: | 1957 |
| Route length: | 25.838 km |
| Race length: | km in laps |
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| Most wins: | Giuseppe Campari (3) |
| Most Poles: | Juan Manuel Fangio (2) |
The Pescara Grand Prix (1925–1939 Coppa Acerbo ; 1947–1951, 1957 Circuito di Pescara ; 1952–1953 12 Ore di Pescara ; 1961 4 Ore di Pescara ) was a race for automobiles . Without exception, the venue was the Circuito di Pescara , a nearly 26-kilometer non-permanent road circuit on the Italian Adriatic coast . In 1957 the race was part of the drivers' world championship .
history
The event was named after Tito Acerbo, brother of the fascist politician Giacomo Acerbo. After the defeat in World War II and the resulting decline of fascism, the race was renamed Circuito di Pescara , later Gran Premio di Pescara .
The first race took place on July 13, 1924 as a formula-free race . The then largely unknown Enzo Ferrari won the race in the Alfa Romeo RL . Until 1938 the race was held without a formula and was never part of the Grand Prix European Championship during this time , but was considered an important prestige race among the drivers . The early years were dominated by Alfa Romeo drivers ; A driver from the Milan-based manufacturer won seven out of nine races . In 1934 the German brands Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union began to dominate . It was not until 1939 that Alfa Romeo was able to win the race again, but this was not held in the formula-free but in the 1.5-liter Voiturette class. When the Second World War broke out, there was a forced break up to and including 1946.
After the war, the race was renamed the Pescara Grand Prix ( Gran Premio di Pescara ) and the circuit was now known as the Circuito di Pescara. Initially, the race was held for sports cars, with the introduction of the drivers' world championship in 1950 and 1951 , the Grand Prix was then held under Formula 1 rules - although initially not as a championship run. Sports cars were also at the start in 1952, 1953 and 1956. In 1954 the race was held in accordance with Formula 2 regulations.
formula 1
After the June races, the Belgian and Dutch Grand Prix, had been canceled due to financial problems, the FIA exceptionally included the “Pescara Grand Prix” in the 1957 Formula 1 World Championship calendar at short notice.
Since the world championship had already been decided for the four times victorious Maserati driver Juan Manuel Fangio , the Italian judiciary was investigating Ferrari on the basis of the eleven people killed in a Ferrari accident in the Mille Miglia road race in May 1957 , and because of the limited training opportunities on country roads, Ferrari refused an official participation in this road race. Only Luigi Musso , second in the points table, took part as a private driver with a Ferrari. The event nevertheless attracted over 200,000 spectators. Musso was third in practice and quickly took the lead, but had to retire due to the high temperatures with a loss of oil, so that Vanwall driver Stirling Moss was able to win with a comfortable lead after 2: 59: 22.7 hours. Out of 16 participants only seven made it to the finish. During the starting phase, there was an accident when the privateer Horace Gould drove to a mechanic who had not disappeared from the grid quickly enough.
Just three weeks later, the Italian Gran Premio took place in Monza as usual , which is the first time that two Formula 1 World Championship races have been held in one country.
The end
At the beginning of the 1960s, the safety aspect in racing became bigger and bigger and the track was given up for motorsport. The last race that was driven in Pescara was a 4-hour race in 1961 , which was part of the World Sports Car Championship and was won by Lorenzo Bandini and Giorgio Scarlatti .
Deadly accidents
There have been eight deaths in the history of the Grand Prix. The first victim was the Algerian Guy Moll in 1934 , who collided with Ernst Jakob Henne while lapping him and hit the road barrier. In 1937 the worst accident in racing history occurred, in which Pasquale Ermini lost control of his car after attempting to overtake Luciano Uboldi and raced into a group of spectators. Four spectators were killed, Ermini himself was seriously injured. At the 1939 Grand Prix , Giordano Aldrighetti first died in training, who burned himself in the cockpit of his car after an accident, while Catullo Lami died in the race after a rollover. The last fatal accident occurred in 1961. Franco Bernabei ran over two spectators, one of whom died a little later in the hospital.
Results
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| abbreviation | class | comment |
| F1 | formula 1 | Formula 1 World Championship from 1950 |
| F2 | Formula 2 | |
| FL | Formula libre | Vehicle class usually advertised by the organizer |
| SW | Sports car | |
| TW | Touring car | |
| GP | Grand Prix vehicles | |
| ↓ Solid gray lines indicate when a new course was used in history. ↓ | ||
| Entries with a light red background were not runs for the automobile or Formula 1 world championship. | ||
| Entries with a yellow background were runs for the European Championship . | ||
literature
- Richard Williams The Last Road Race, Phoenix 2013
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Motorsportmemorial.org: Guy Moll
- ^ Motorsportmemorial.org: Car and truck fatalities by circuit
- ^ Motorsportmemorial.org: Giordano Aldrighetti
- ↑ motorsportmemorial.org: Maria Pacione
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