1929 Spanish Grand Prix

This article is about the 1929 12-hour race in San Sebastián; for the race of the Grand Prix vehicles see Gran Premio de San Sebastián 1929 .

Start of the Spanish Grand Prix

The Alfa Romeo team before the start, on the left the winning car, in the middle the failed vehicle from Varzi, on the right the runner-up.

The 1929 Spanish Grand Prix was a 12-hour race for sports cars on Sunday, July 28, 1929 at the Circuito Lasarte in San Sebastián .

The race had in previous years, the title of Grand Prix Guipúzcoa , and was part of the 7th major automotive meetings in San Sebastián, which on Thursday, July 25, with a race for Grand Prix cars, the San Sebastián Grand Prix opens has been.

Before the race

The Spanish Royal Automobile Club Real Automóvil Club de España organized the 7th large automobile meeting at the Circuito Lasarte at the end of July 1929.

1929 was a year of transition for the Grand Prix scene, the season for Grand Prix vehicles advertised by the world association AIACR consisted of only 2 races and the world championship was "only" for sports cars.

The Spanish Grand Prix started on July 28, 1929 at 11 a.m. and lasted for 12 hours, i.e. into the night. Accordingly, the reliability of the so-called "private sports car" and the quality of the lighting system were decisive. In Spain there was a fuel monopoly in 1929, which is why standard petrol was used.

The race

After the first lap, Louis Chiron crossed the finish line in seventh place, in the second already in third and already took the lead on the third lap, closely followed by Edmond Bourlier also on Bugatti . Then came the Alfa Romeo and Lancia vehicles . After a good start, Roger Bourcier had to turn off his Tracta . Achille Varzi later also retired in an Alfa Romeo, but (as was customary at the time) was able to finish the Spanish Grand Prix in the other Alfa Romeo racing cars still in the race.

After 16 laps, 8 vehicles had already retired, so only 13 left on the track. At the time the three Been Rally of Anne-Cécile Rose Itier , Baligand and Morán failed, also a Lancia, an Alfa Romeo, the Stutz of Oscar Leblanc , the Tracta of Bourcier and Ariès of Arthur Duray .

During the pit stop on lap 32, Joaquín Palacio's Bugatti caught fire. Palacio was able to save himself from the vehicle with burning clothes and was burned. The Bugatti could be extinguished quickly enough and Moreno drove on with the vehicle.

Chiron was still the leader on lap 60, but the Alfa Romeo, driven alternately by Rigal, Varzi and Zehender, was only 17 km behind. Chiron pitted on lap 61, but the pit stop lasted a full quarter of an hour. This was enough for the Alfa Romeo team to catch up almost completely. On the last lap, the Bugatti's headlights suddenly went out. Chiron has to stop and Rigal takes the lead at that moment and Alfa-Romeo wins the race.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Travel time
1	2.0	26th		Louis Rigal Goffredo Zehender Carlo Canavesi	Alfa Romeo	12: 00: 00,000
2	2.0	28		G. Colombo Achille Varzi	Alfa Romeo	12: 00: 00,000
3	5.0	3		Henri Stoffel	Chrysler	12: 00: 00,000
4th	1.5	34		Louis Charavel Jean Gaupillat	Bugatti	12: 00: 00,000
5	1.1	34		Jean-Albert Grégoire	Tracta	12: 00: 00,000
Placement or failure unknown
6th	+ 5.0	1		Oscar Leblanc	Stutz
7th	3.0	10		Franz Gouvion	Lancia
8th	3.0	11		Abel Blin d'Ormont	Lancia
9	3.0	12		Conde Legrelle	Lancia
10	3.0	15th		Louis Chiron Mario Lepori	Bugatti
11	3.0	16		Joaquín Palacio Morenes	Bugatti
12	2.0	24		Edmond Bourlier	Bugatti
13	2.0	27		Achille Varzi Banavest	Alfa Romeo
14th	1.5	33		Navarre	Bugatti
15th	1.5	37		Ernest André Ebran	Bugatti
16	1.1	43		Ballard Devegni	Tracta
16	1.1	46		Robert Laly Arthur Duray	Aries
17th	1.1	47		Anne-Cécile Rose-Itier	Rally
18th	1.1	48		Baligond	Rally
19th	1.1	48		Moran	Rally
20th	1.1	52		Roger Bourcier	Tracta

Only in the entry list

Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
21st	+ 5.0	2		Edouard Brisson	Stutz
22nd	5.0	4th		Cyril de Vère	Chrysler
23	5.0	5		Woolf Barnato	Bentley
24	5.0	6th		Wooff	Bentley
25th	5.0	7th		Leon Duray	Duesenberg
26th	5.0	7th		Max Thirion	Bugatti
27	5.0	9		Reynatz	Bugatti
28	3.0	14th		Georges Philippe	Bugatti
29	3.0	18th		Rudolf Caracciola	Mercedes Benz
30th	3.0	19th		Archibal Maconschi	Mercedes Benz
31	3.0	20th		Hermann zu Leiningen	Mercedes Benz
32	3.0	21st		August Momberger	Mercedes Benz
33	3.0	22nd		Henry Birkin	Bentley
34	3.0	23		Guy Bouriat	Bugatti
35	2.0	25th		Attilio Marinoni	Alfa Romeo
36	2.0	29		Juan Zanelli	Bugatti
37	2.0	30th		Georges Bouriano	Bugatti
38	2.0	31		Mme. Dupre	Bugatti
39	2.0	32			Bugatti
40	1.5	35			Alfa Romeo
41	1.5	36		Dubeuil	Ravel
42	1.5	38			Salmson
43	1.5	39			Bugatti
44	1.1	40		Ciordia	Essex
45	1.1	41		Dutreuith	Ravel
46	1.1	44		Christian	BNC
47	1.1	45		Libert	Lombard
48	1.1	50		Sattores	Salmson
49	1.1	51		Jean Parisot	Amilcar

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S + 5.0					unknown
S 5.0	Henri Stoffel			Chrysler	Rank 3
S 3.0					unknown
S 2.0	Louis Rigal	Goffredo Zehender	Carlo Canavesi	Alfa Romeo	Overall victory
S 1.5	Louis Charavel	Jean Gaupillat		Bugatti	Rank 4
S 1.1	Jean-Albert Grégoire			Tracta	Rank 5

Racing data

• Registered: 49
• Started: 20
• Scoring: unknown
• Race classes: 6
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 17,315 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 12:00: 00,000 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 80
• Total distance of the winning team: 1,374,500 km
• Winner's average: 114.500 km / h
• Pole position: unknown
• Fastest race lap: unknown
• Racing series: Did not count in any racing series

literature

• San Sebastian Grand Prix . In: Automobile Revue . No. 65 , July 30, 1929, ISSN  0005-1314 , p. 3 ( online [accessed September 9, 2014]).
• The Spanish Grand Prix . In: Automobile Revue . No. 66 , August 2, 1929, ISSN  0005-1314 , p. 3 ( online [accessed September 9, 2014]).

Web links

Commons : Automobilsport 1929  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• VI Gran Premio de España. www.teamdan.com, accessed September 4, 2014 . 
• Results at WSPR
• Results at racing sports cars

Individual evidence

1. ^ The meeting of San Sebastian. In: Automobil-Revue. Bern, Switzerland, No. 66, August 2, 1929, ISSN  0005-1314 , p. 3, accessed October 8, 2014.
2. ↑ poster to "No Mirando a Nuestro Daño - Todos los Muertos Pilotos" , Spanish language, accessed on September 9, 2014.