1923 Italian Grand Prix

GP Italian 9 Sep 1923 III Gran Premio d'ItaliaI Grand Prix d'Europe Italy 1861 Monza, Italy Autodromo Nazionale di Monza 6.21 10.00 80 496.8 800 Circuit Monza 1922.svg Ferdinando Minoia based on entry number 1 Italy 1861 Benz True Pietro Bordino Fiat 3:44.0 160.70 kph Italy 1861 Carlo Salamano Fiat Italy 1861 Felice Nazzaro Fiat Italy 1861 Jimmy Murphy Miller USA 1912 The 1923 Italian Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Monza on 9 September 1923.1923 Grands Prix, The GEL Motorsport Information Page Darren Galpin http://www.teamdan.com/archive/gen/1923.html https://web.archive.org/web/20081029104959/http://www.teamdan.com/archive/gen/1923.html 2008-10-29 live 2009-03-18 It was the first race to be designated as the European Grand Prix. Rules required a capacity limit of 2 liter, minimum weight of 650 kg, and 800 km distance, as in the Indy 500. Alfa Romeo suffered a fatal crash in practice and withdrew its other cars. Only FIAT had superchargers and won 1-2 in a race of attrition. Only one of the American Miller 122 could also cover the full distance, taking several minutes more, while the best of the Benz RH came in fourth, and also last to be classified. The three Benz RH Tropfenwagen were down on power, but featured innovations like streamlined tear shape body with the Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout that took four more decades to dominate single seater racing ever since. Classification thumb|Ferdinando Minoia in his Benz RH Tropfenwagen. thumb|Winner Carlo Salamano in his supercharged Fiat. PosNoDriverCarLapsTime/Retired 1 14 ITA 1861 Carlo Salamano Fiat 805-405 80 5h27m38 2 8 ITA 1861 Felice Nazzaro Fiat 805-405 80 5h28m02 3 5 USA 1912 Jimmy Murphy Miller 122 80 5h32m51 4 1 ITA 1861 Ferdinando Minoia Benz RH 76 NC 7 DEU 1919 Franz Horner Benz RH 71 NC 16 ARG Martín de Álzaga Miller 122 70 Ret 4 FRA Albert Guyot Rolland-Pilain 60 Ret 2 ITA 1861 Pietro Bordino Fiat 805-405 44 Driver exhaustion Ret 10 FRA Gaston Delalande Rolland-Pilain 30 Ret 15 FRA André Lefebvre Voisin Laboratoire 29 Ret 13 DEU 1919 Willy Walb Benz RH 29 Ret 9 FRA Henri Rougier Voisin Laboratoire 28 Ret 11 UK Louis Zborowski Miller 122 15 Ret 3 ITA 1861 Eugenio Silvani Voisin Laboratoire 14 Mechanical DNS 6 ITA 1861 Antonio Ascari Alfa Romeo P1 Withdrawn DNS 12 ITA 1861 Giuseppe Campari Alfa Romeo P1 Withdrawn DNS 17 ITA 1861 Ugo Sivocci Alfa Romeo P1 Fatal crash in practice References Italian Grand Prix 1923 1923 French Grand Prix 1924 Indianapolis 500 1922 Italian Grand Prix 1924 Italian Grand Prix None 1924 French Grand Prix Italian Grand Prix Grand Prix Category:Italian Grand Prix Category:European Grand Prix