Type: | GP |
Grand Prix: | Tunis |
Date: | 26 March |
Year: | 1933 |
Official Name: | V Grand Prix de Tunisie |
Country: | French protectorate of Tunisia |
Location: | Carthage Street Circuit Tunis, French protectorate of Tunisia |
Course: | Street circuit |
Course Mi: | 7.9 |
Course Km: | 12.714 |
Weather: | Initially dry, with thunder and rain later |
Distance Laps: | 37 |
Distance Mi: | 292.3 |
Distance Km: | 470.4 |
Pole Driver: | Frédéric Toselli |
Pole Team: | Bugatti |
Pole Country: | France |
Grid From Number: | True |
Fast Driver: | Tazio Nuvolari |
Fast Team: | Alfa Romeo |
Fast Time: | 5:05 |
Fast Lap: | 7 |
Fast Country: | Italy |
Fast Flag Suffix: | 1861 |
First Driver: | Tazio Nuvolari |
First Team: | Alfa Romeo |
First Country: | Italy |
First Flag Suffix: | 1861 |
Second Driver: | Baconin Borzacchini |
Second Team: | Alfa Romeo |
Second Country: | Italy |
Second Flag Suffix: | 1861 |
Third Driver: | Goffredo Zehender |
Third Team: | Maserati |
Third Country: | Italy |
Third Flag Suffix: | 1861 |
The 1933 Tunis Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at the Carthage Street Circuit in Tunis, the capital of colonial Tunisia, on 26 March 1933. Tazio Nuvolari won the 37 lap race, driving for Scuderia Ferrari, Alfa Romeo's works team, while his teammate, Baconin Borzacchini, finished second. Third place was taken by the privateer Maserati of Goffredo Zehender.[1]
Grid positions were allocated in numerical order.[1]
Starting grid — 1933 Tunis Grand Prix | |||
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width=150px | Toselli Bugatti | ||
Moll Bugatti | |||
Borzacchini Alfa Romeo | |||
Zanelli Alfa Romeo | |||
Brunet Bugatti | |||
Pietsch Alfa Romeo | |||
Czaykowski Bugatti | |||
Braillard Bugatti | |||
Gaupillat Bugatti | |||
Premoli PBM | |||
Sommer Maserati | |||
Falchetto Bugatti | |||
Nuvolari Alfa Romeo | |||
Villars Alfa Romeo | |||
Waldthausen Alfa Romeo | |||
Zehender Maserati | |||
Étancelin Alfa Romeo | |||
Varzi Bugatti | |||
Lehoux Bugatti | |||
Fagioli Maserati | |||
Pos | No | Driver | Car | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 28 | Tazio Nuvolari | Alfa Romeo Monza | 37 | 3:29:15.4 | 13 |
2 | 8 | Baconin Borzacchini | Alfa Romeo Monza | 37 | +0.2 | 3 |
3 | 34 | Goffredo Zehender | Maserati 8C 2800 | 37 | +11:58.0 | 16 |
4 | 32 | Horst von Waldthausen | Alfa Romeo Monza | 37 | +12:01.0 | 15 |
5 | 26 | Benoît Falchetto | Bugatti T35B | 37 | +12:18.6 | 12 |
6 | 2 | Frédéric Toselli | Bugatti T51(A) | 37 | +15:54.2 | 1 |
7 | 14 | Paul Pietsch | Alfa Romeo Monza | 37 | +17:17.2 | 6 |
8 | 44 | Juan Zanelli | Alfa Romeo Monza | 37 | +19:07.2 | 4 |
9 | 4 | Guy Moll | Bugatti T35C | 36 | Ran out of fuel | 2 |
10 | 30 | Julio Villars | Alfa Romeo Monza | 36 | +1 lap | 14 |
11 | 18 | Louis Braillard | Bugatti T35B | 35 | +2 laps | 8 |
Ret | 36 | Philippe Étancelin | Alfa Romeo Monza | 21 | Rear axle | 17 |
Ret | 20 | Jean Gaupillat | Bugatti T51 | 15 | Oil pressure | 9 |
Ret | 12 | Robert Brunet | Bugatti T51 | 14 | Oil pressure | 5 |
Ret | 42 | Luigi Fagioli | Maserati 8C 3000 | 12 | Magneto drive | 20 |
Ret | 38 | Achille Varzi | Bugatti T51 | 11 | Drive shaft | 18 |
Ret | 22 | Luigi Premoli | PBM | 8 | Transmission | 10 |
Ret | 16 | Stanisłas Czaykowski | Bugatti T51 | 6 | Oil pump drive | 7 |
Ret | 40 | Marcel Lehoux | Bugatti T51 | 6 | Piston | 19 |
Ret | 24 | Raymond Sommer | Maserati 8CM | 5 | Magneto drive | 11 |
DNS | 6 | László Hartmann | Bugatti T51 | Did not start | ||
DNA | ? | Pierre Veyron | Bugatti T51 | Did not arrive | ||
DNA | ? | Louis Joly | Bugatti/Maserati | Did not arrive | ||
DNA | ? | Pietro Ghersi | Bugatti | Did not arrive | ||
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