Swiss Grand Prix
| Dijon-Prenois (France) | |
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| Race information | |
| Laps | 80 |
|---|---|
| Circuit length | 3.800 km ( mi) |
| Race length | 304.000 km ( mi) |
| Number of times held | 16 |
| First held | 1934 |
| Last held | 1982 |
| Most wins (drivers) |  Rudolf Caracciola (3) |
| Most wins (constructors) |  Mercedes-Benz (5) |
| Last race (1982): | |
| Pole position |  Alain ProstRenault 1:01.380 |
| Podium | 1.  Keke RosbergWilliams-Ford 1:32:41.087 2. Alain ProstRenault +4.442 3.  Niki LaudaMcLaren-Ford +1:00.343 |
| Fastest lap | Alain Prost Renault 1:07.477 |
The Swiss Grand Prix (French: Grand Prix de la Suisse, German: Großer Preis von der Schweiz) was the premier auto race of Switzerland. In its later years it was a Formula One race.
Grand Prix motor racing came to Switzerland in 1934, to the Bremgarten circuit, located just outside the town of Bremgarten, near Bern. The Swiss Grand Prix counted toward the European Championship from 1935 to 1939.
The Bremgarten track remained the home of the Swiss Grand Prix until 1954 and in 1948 it was designated the European Grand Prix, in a time when this title was an honorary designation given each year to one grand prix race in Europe. Any chance to return was erased in 1958 when motor racing was banned by the Swiss government as an unsafe spectator sport following the death of 80 people at the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans race. The Swiss Grand Prix returned in 1975 as a non-Championship Grand Prix just across the border, at the Dijon-Prenois circuit, France. The next, and last, Swiss Grand Prix was a round of the Formula One World Championship in 1982, also held at Dijon.
On June 6, 2007 Swiss Parliament voted to lift the ban of circuit racing in Switzerland, 97 in favor and 77 opposed.[1] However, the legislation was subsequently not ratified by the Swiss Council of States (the Senat) and the ban is now highly unlikely to actually be lifted.[2]
[edit] Winners of the Swiss Grand Prix
Events which were not part of the Formula One World Championship are indicated by a pink background.
A cream background indicates an event which was part of the pre-war European Championship.
| Year | Driver | Constructor | Location | Report |
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| 1982 | Keke Rosberg |
Williams-Ford | Dijon (France) | Report |
| 1981 - 1976 |
Not held | |||
| 1975 |  Clay Regazzoni |
Ferrari | Dijon (France) | Report |
| 1974 - 1955 |
Not held | |||
| 1954 |  Juan Manuel Fangio |
Mercedes | Bremgarten | Report |
| 1953 |  Alberto Ascari |
Ferrari | Bremgarten | Report |
| 1952 | Piero Taruffi |
Ferrari | Bremgarten | Report |
| 1951 | Juan Manuel Fangio |
Alfa Romeo | Bremgarten | Report |
| 1950 | Nino Farina |
Alfa Romeo | Bremgarten | Report |
| 1949 | Alberto Ascari |
Ferrari | Bremgarten | Report |
| 1948 | Carlo Felice Trossi |
Alfa Romeo | Bremgarten | Report |
| 1947 | Jean-Pierre Wimille |
Alfa Romeo | Bremgarten | Report |
| 1946 - 1940 |
Not held | |||
| 1939 | Hermann Lang |
Mercedes-Benz | Bremgarten | Report |
| 1938 | Rudolf Caracciola |
Mercedes-Benz | Bremgarten | Report |
| 1937 | Rudolf Caracciola |
Mercedes-Benz | Bremgarten | Report |
| 1936 | Bernd Rosemeyer |
Auto Union | Bremgarten | Report |
| 1935 | Rudolf Caracciola |
Mercedes-Benz | Bremgarten | Report |
| 1934 |  Hans Stuck |
Auto Union | Bremgarten | Report |
[edit] References
- ^ "Switzerland lifts motor racing ban". Updatesport.com. June 6, 2007. http://formula-1.updatesport.com/news/article/1181121420/formula_one/F1headlines/Switzerland-lifts-motor-racing-ban/view.html. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
- ^ "Swiss vote against racing". GrandPrix.com. October 10, 2007. http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns19754.html. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
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