The 1933 Nice Grand Prix (officially the II Grand Prix de Nice) was a Grand Prix motor race held at Nice on Sunday, 6 August 1933.
| 1933 Nice Grand Prix | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Tazio Nuvolari towards win in Maserati 8CM | |||
| Race details | |||
| Date | 6 August 1933 | ||
| Official name | II Grand Prix de Nice | ||
| Location | Nice, France | ||
| Course | Street circuit | ||
| Course length | 3.214 km (1.997 miles) | ||
| Distance | 95 laps, 305.33 km (189.72 miles) | ||
| Weather | Sunny, dry | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Maserati | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Tazio Nuvolari | Maserati | |
| Time | 1:47.0 (108.1 km/h) | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Maserati | ||
| Second | Bugatti | ||
| Third | Alfa Romeo | ||
Compared to the relatively small 1932 Nice Circuit Race the 1933 race was a serious Grand Prix with almost all the best known drivers of the time in competition. The street course followed the best known roads in the famous holiday resort, up and down the Promenade des Anglaise (with a 1.4 km straight allowing speeds up to 200 km/h to be reached), the Avenue Verdun, around the Place Masséna, Avenue des Phocéens and Quai des Etats Unis. In common with several other Grand Prix in 1933 the grid starting positions were decided according to practice times. Tazio Nuvolari had his third consecutive Grand Prix win.[1]
Classification edit
| Pos[2] | No | Driver | Car | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Tazio Nuvolari
|
Maserati 8CM | 95 | 2:56:17.6 (103.92 km/h) | 1 |
| 2 | 14 |  René Dreyfus
|
Bugatti T51 | 95 | 2:57:47.1 | 9 |
| 3 | 8 | Guy Moll
|
Alfa Romeo Monza | 94 | +1 lap | 8 |
| 4 | 16 | Luigi Fagioli
|
Alfa Romeo Monza | 93 | +2 laps | 6 |
| 5 | 10 | Marcel Lehoux
|
Bugatti T51 | 92 | +3 laps | 5 |
| 6 | 30 |  Brian Lewis
|
Alfa Romeo Monza | 92 | +3 laps | 12 |
| 7 | 32 | Pierre Félix
|
Alfa Romeo Monza | 91 | +4 laps | 14 |
| 8 | 20 | Giuseppe Campari
|
Maserati 4CM 2000 | 91 | +4 laps | 10 |
| Ret | 6 | Jean-Pierre Wimille
|
Alfa Romeo Monza | 80 | Brake rod | 3 |
| Ret | 24 | Philippe Étancelin
|
Alfa Romeo Monza | 55 | Brake rod | 2 |
| Ret | 18 | Giovanni Minozzi
|
Maserati 8C | 43 | 11 | |
| Ret | 28 | Goffredo Zehender
|
Maserati 8CM | 40 | Overheating | 15 |
| Ret | 12 | Earl Howe
|
Bugatti T51 | 15 | Carburetor control | 16 |
| Ret | 22 | Achille Varzi
|
Bugatti T51 | 15 | Brakes | 7 |
| Ret | 4 | Raymond Sommer
|
Alfa Romeo Monza | 15 | Rocker arm | 4 |
| Ret | 26 |  Charles Jellen
|
Alfa Romeo Monza | 5 | Fuel pipe | 13 |
| DNA |  László Hartmann
|
Bugatti T35B | ||||
| DNA | Clemente Biondetti
|
MB Speciale |
Notes edit
Exact number of laps completed by retired drivers is not known for certain, values shown above are taken from available sources
References edit
- ^ "1933 Nice Grand Prix". kolumbus/leif.snellman. Archived from the original on 2021-01-19. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
- ^ [1] Archived 2008-08-08 at the Wayback Machine 1933 Nice Grand Prix