1923 Italian Grand Prix

1923 Italian Grand Prix
1923 Italian Grand Prix
Race details
Date	9 September 1923
Official name	III Gran Premio d'Italia; I Grand Prix d'Europe
Location	Monza, Italy
Course	Autodromo Nazionale di Monza
Course length	10.00 km (6.21 miles)
Distance	80 laps, 800 km (496.8 miles)
Pole position
Driver	Ferdinando Minoia;
	Grid positions set by car number
Fastest lap
Driver	Pietro Bordino
Time	3:44.0
Podium
First	Carlo Salamano;
Second	Felice Nazzaro;
Third	Jimmy Murphy;

The 1923 Italian Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Monza on 9 September 1923.^[1]

It was the first race to be designated as the European Grand Prix.

Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Car	Laps	Time/Retired
1	14	Carlo Salamano	Fiat 805/405	80	5h27m38
2	8	Felice Nazzaro	Fiat 805	80	5h28m02
3	5	Jimmy Murphy	Miller 122	80	5h32m51
4	1	Ferdinando Minoia	Benz RH	76
NC	7	Franz Horner	Benz RH	71
NC	16	Martín de Álzaga	Miller 122	70
Ret	4	Albert Guyot	Rolland-Pilain	60
Ret	2	Pietro Bordino	Fiat 805/405	44	Driver exhaustion
Ret	10	Gaston Delalande	Rolland-Pilain	30
Ret	15	André Lefebvre	Voisin Laboratoire	29
Ret	13	Willy Walb	Benz RH	29
Ret	9	Henri Rougier	Voisin Laboratoire	28
Ret	11	Louis Zborowski	Miller 122	15
Ret	3	Eugenio Silvani	Voisin Laboratoire	14	Mechanical
DNS	6	Antonio Ascari	Alfa Romeo P1		Withdrawn
DNS	12	Giuseppe Campari	Alfa Romeo P1		Withdrawn
DNS	17	Ugo Sivocci	Alfa Romeo P1		Fatal crash in practice

^ Darren Galpin. "1923 Grands Prix, The GEL Motorsport Information Page". Archived from the original on 2008-10-29. Retrieved 2009-03-18.

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