1933 Nice Grand Prix Explained

Type:GP
Grand Prix:Nice
Date:6 August,
Year:1933
Official Name:II Grand Prix de Nice
Country:France
Location:Nice, France
Course:Street circuit
Course Mi:1.997
Course Km:3.214
Distance Laps:95
Distance Mi:189.72
Distance Km:305.33
Weather:Sunny, dry
Pole Driver:Tazio Nuvolari
Pole Team:Maserati
Pole Country:Italy
Pole Flag Suffix:1861
Fast Driver:Tazio Nuvolari
Fast Team:Maserati
Fast Time:1:47.0 (108.1 km/h)
Fast Country:Italy
Fast Flag Suffix:1861
First Driver:Tazio Nuvolari
First Team:Maserati
First Country:Italy
First Flag Suffix:1861
Second Driver:René Dreyfus
Second Team:Bugatti
Second Country:France
Third Driver:Guy Moll
Third Team:Alfa Romeo
Third Country:France

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.

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

Pos[2] NoDriverCarLapsTime/RetiredGrid
12 Tazio NuvolariMaserati 8CM952:56:17.6 (103.92 km/h)1
214 René DreyfusBugatti T51952:57:47.19
38 Guy MollAlfa Romeo Monza94+1 lap8
416 Luigi FagioliAlfa Romeo Monza93+2 laps6
510 Marcel LehouxBugatti T5192+3 laps5
630 Brian LewisAlfa Romeo Monza92+3 laps12
732 Pierre FélixAlfa Romeo Monza91+4 laps14
820 Giuseppe CampariMaserati 4CM 200091+4 laps10
Ret6 Jean-Pierre WimilleAlfa Romeo Monza80Brake rod3
Ret24 Philippe ÉtancelinAlfa Romeo Monza55Brake rod2
Ret18 Giovanni MinozziMaserati 8C4311
Ret28 Goffredo ZehenderMaserati 8CM40Overheating15
Ret12 Earl HoweBugatti T5115Carburetor control16
Ret22 Achille VarziBugatti T5115Brakes7
Ret4 Raymond SommerAlfa Romeo Monza15Rocker arm4
Ret26 Charles JellenAlfa Romeo Monza5Fuel pipe13
DNA László HartmannBugatti T35B
DNA Clemente BiondettiMB Speciale

Notes

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1933 Nice Grand Prix. 2012-05-26. kolumbus/leif.snellman. 2021-01-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105419/http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/gp3311.htm#50. dead.
  2. http://www.teamdan.com/archive/gen/1933.html#nice