1927 British Grand Prix

WMC British 1 October 1927 Grand Prix of the Royal Automobile Club UK 5 5 Surrey, England Brooklands 2.61 4.21 125 327.00 526.25 Robert Benoist Delage FRA Edmond Bourlier Delage FRA Albert Divo Delage FRA Brooklands Circuit Layout.svg Brooklands circuit layout The second Grand Prix of the Royal Automobile Club, commonly referred to as the 1927 British Grand Prix, was a Grand Prix motor race held at the Brooklands circuit on 1 October 1927.1927 Grands Prix, The GEL Motorsport Information Page Darren Galpin http://www.teamdan.com/archive/gen/1927.html#rac https://web.archive.org/web/20090801130810/http://www.teamdan.com/archive/gen/1927.html 2009-08-01 live 2009-06-24 It was the fifth and final race of the 1927 AIACR World Manufacturers' Championship season. The race was won by French driver Robert Benoist. It was his fourth victory from the season's five races,http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/gpw2.htm Grand Prix Winners 1895-1949: Part 2 (1919-1933) Hans Etzrodt The Golden Era of Grand Prix Racing 2009-06-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20090805054854/http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/gpw2.htm 2009-08-05 live a performance that put the seal on his Delage team's already-unassailable lead in the Championship. A similar circuit was used as in the race the previous year, that is using the Finishing Straight, on which two sandbank chicanes were constructed. However, the footbridge across the Finishing Straight, which in 1926 had two supports on the track itself, had been rebuilt as a single-span, which enabled the full width of the straight to be used and allowed the layout of the chicane at the top of the Finishing Straight to be altered. The race itself also started half-way around the circuit, on the Railway Straight, rather than from the 1926 start at the junction of the Finishing Straight and the Members' Banking, meaning that the race distance was actually 124 and a half laps. Classification PosNoDriverCarLapsTime/Retired 1 2 FRA Robert Benoist Delage 15 S 8 125 3h49m14.6 2 3 FRA Edmond Bourlier Delage 15 S 8 125 3h49m21.6 3 4 FRA Albert Divo Delage 15 S 8 125 3h52m20.0 4 12 MCO Louis Chiron Bugatti 39A 125 4h17m50.0 5 11 ITA 1861 Emilio Materassi Bugatti 39A 118 NC 10 ITA 1861 Caberto ConelliGBR Williams Bugatti 39A 106 Ret 1 GBR George EystonGBR Sammy Davis Bugatti 39A 95 Supercharger Ret 5 GBR Malcolm Campbell Bugatti 39A 93 Valve Ret 14 RO Jean Ghika-Cantacuzino Bugatti 37A 28 Valve Ret 7 GBR Harold Purdey Thomas Special 9 Transmission Ret 6 GBR Bummer Scott Thomas Special 8 Supercharger DNS1 1 9 GBR Maurice Harvey Alvis GPOil pump DNA 8 USA 1912 George Souders Duesenberg Note: Fastest lap wasn't recorded. Notes 1 1 - Maurice Harvey did not start as they broke an oil pump in practice.British Grand Prix. Aberdeen Press and Journal 3 October 1927 15 July 2020 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19271003/126/0011 British Newspaper Archive subscription References British Grand Prix 1927 1927 Italian Grand Prix 1928 Indianapolis 500 1926 British Grand Prix 1948 British Grand Prix Category:British Grand Prix British Grand Prix Category:1927 in British motorsport Category:October 1927 sports events in the United Kingdom Category:1927 in English sport