1946 Nice Grand Prix | |||
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Race details | |||
Date | 22 April 1946 | ||
Official name | V Grand Prix de Nice | ||
Location | Nice, France | ||
Course | Street circuit | ||
Course length | 3.218 km (2.000 miles) | ||
Distance | 65 laps, 209.170 km (130.000 miles) | ||
Pole position | |||
Driver | Maserati 4CL | ||
Time | 1:45.0 | ||
Grid positions set by heat results | |||
Fastest lap | |||
Driver | Raymond Sommer | Alfa Romeo 308 | |
Time | 1:44.8 | ||
Podium | |||
First | Maserati | ||
Second | Alfa Romeo | ||
Third | Delahaye |
The 1946 Nice Grand Prix (officially the V Grand Prix de Nice) was a Grand Prix motor race held at Nice in France on Monday, 22 April 1946. According to some sources this was the first official Formula 1 race. [1]
Pos [2] [3] [4] | No | Driver | Car | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid |
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1 | 10 | Luigi Villoresi | Maserati | 65 | 2:00:04.5 (104.52 km/h) | 1 |
2 | 4 | Raymond Sommer | Alfa Romeo | 64 | +1 lap | |
3 | 18 | Eugène Chaboud | Delahaye | 61 | +4 laps | |
4 | 32 | Georges Grignard | Delahaye | 59 | +6 laps | |
5 | 8 | Arialdo Ruggieri / Franco Cortese | Maserati | 58 | +7 laps | |
6 | 2 | Louis Chiron | Talbot-Lago | 58 | +7 laps | |
7 | 36 | Maurice Varet | Alfa Romeo | 55 | +10 laps | |
8 | 34 | Charles Pozzi | Delahaye | 51 | +14 laps | |
9 | 26 | Fernand Bianchi | Bugatti | 48 | +17 laps | |
10 | 20 | Henri Louveau | Maserati | 44 | +21 laps | |
ret | 22 | Pierre Levegh | Talbot-Lago | 41 | Rear axle | |
ret | 14 | Maurice Trintignant | Bugatti | 30 | Ignition | |
ret | 16 | Robert Mazaud | Maserati | 22 | Magneto | |
ret | 12 | Henri Trillaud | Delahaye | 20 | Connecting rod | |
ret | 40 | Harry Schell | Maserati | 20 | Accident | |
ret | 28 | Raph | Maserati | 15 | ||
ret | 24 | Marcel Balsa | Talbot-Lago | 15 | ||
ret | 6 | Philippe Étançelin | Maserati | 8 | Magneto | |
ret | 38 | Roger Deho | Maserati | 5 | ||
ret | 42 | Franco Cortese | Maserati | 0 | Supercharger | |
DNS | 30 | Discoride Lanza | Maserati | 0 | ||
DNS | 44 | Paul Friderich | Delahaye | 0 |
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