1938 Grand Prix season explained

The 1938 Grand Prix season was the sixth AIACR European Championship season. The championship was won by Rudolf Caracciola, driving for the Mercedes-Benz team. Caracciola won one of the four events that counted towards the championship.

Season review

European Championship Grands Prix

Rd	Date	Name	Circuit	Winning drivers	Winning constructor	Report
1	3 July	French Grand Prix	Reims-Gueux	Manfred von Brauchitsch	Mercedes-Benz	Report
2	24 July	German Grand Prix	Nürburgring	Richard Seaman	Mercedes-Benz	Report
3	21 August	Swiss Grand Prix	Bremgarten	Rudolf Caracciola	Mercedes-Benz	Report
4	11 September	Italian Grand Prix	Monza	Tazio Nuvolari	Auto Union	Report

Non-championship Grands Prix

Grandes Épreuves are denoted by a yellow background.

Date	Name	Circuit	Winning driver	Winning constructor	Report
10 April	Pau Grand Prix	Pau	René Dreyfus	Delahaye	Report
18 April	Campbell Trophy	Brooklands	Prince Bira	ERA	Report
23 April	Cork Grand Prix	Carrigrohane	René Dreyfus	Delahaye	Report
15 May	Tripoli Grand Prix	Mellaha	Hermann Lang	Mercedes-Benz	Report
29 May	Gávea Nacional Circuit	Gávea	Arthur Nascimento Jr	Alfa Romeo	Report
5 June	Grand Prix des Frontières	Chimay	Maurice Trintignant	Bugatti	Report
12 June	Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix	Gávea	Carlo Maria Pintacuda	Alfa Romeo	Report
7 August	Coppa Ciano	Montenero	Hermann Lang	Mercedes-Benz	Report
15 August	Coppa Acerbo	Pescara	Rudolf Caracciola	Mercedes-Benz	Report
27 August	Junior Car Club 200 mile race	Brooklands	Johnny Wakefield	ERA	Report
15 October	Mountain Championship	Brooklands	Raymond Mays	ERA	Report
22 October	Donington Grand Prix	Donington Park	Tazio Nuvolari	Auto Union	Report

Championship final standings

Pos	Driver	FRA	GER	SUI	ITA	Pts
1	Rudolf Caracciola	2	2	1	3	8
2	Manfred von Brauchitsch	1	Ret	3	Ret	15
3	Hermann Lang	3	Ret	10	*Ret*	17
4	Richard Seaman		1	2	Ret	18
5	Tazio Nuvolari		Ret	9	1	20
=	Hans Stuck		3	4	Ret	20
=	Hermann Paul Müller		4	Ret	Ret	20
8	Giuseppe Farina		Ret	5	2	21
9	René Dreyfus		5	8		24
=	Pietro Ghersi		8		5	24
11	Jean-Pierre Wimille	Ret		7	Ret	25
12	Piero Taruffi		Ret	6	Ret	26
13	Clemente Biondetti		Ret		4	27
14	René Carrière	4				28
=	Christian Kautz	Ret		Ret	Ret	28
=	Rudolf Hasse	Ret	Ret			28
=	Paul Pietsch		6			28
=	Renato Balestrero		7			28
=	Franco Cortese		9			28
=	"Raph"			11		28
=	Emilio Romano			12		28
=	Max Christen			13		28
=	Edoardo Teagno			14		28
24	Philippe Étancelin	Ret				29
=	Arthur Hyde		Ret			29
26	Adolfo Mandirola			Ret		30
=	Giovanni Minozzi			Ret		30
=	Luigi Villoresi				Ret	30
=	Goffredo Zehender				Ret	30
=	Vittorio Belmondo				Ret	30
31	Eugène Chaboud	Ret				31
=	Toulo de Graffenried		Ret			31
=	Franco Comotti		Ret			31
=	Herbert Berg		Ret			31
=	István de Sztriha			Ret		31
36	Carlo Felice Trossi				DSQ	32
Pos	Driver	FRA	GER	SUI	ITA	Pts

References

Web site: Grand Prix Winners 1895–1949 : Part 3 (1934–1949) . The Golden Era of Grand Prix Racing . Hans . Etzrodt . 2007-08-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20070806054345/http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/gpw3.htm. 6 August 2007 . live.
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Web site: 1938 Grands Prix . The GEL Motorsport Information Page . Darren . Galpin . 2007-08-05 . 2007-09-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092758/http://www.teamdan.com/archive/gen/1938.html . dead .