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 Italy 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

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Start of the race
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

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Exact number of laps completed by retired drivers is not known for certain, values shown above are taken from available sources

References

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  1. ^ "1933 Nice Grand Prix". kolumbus/leif.snellman. Archived from the original on 2021-01-19. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
  2. ^ [1] Archived 2008-08-08 at the Wayback Machine 1933 Nice Grand Prix


Grand Prix Race
1933 Grand Prix season
Previous race:
1932 Nice Circuit Race
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1934 Nice Grand Prix