1930 Grand Prix season

The 1930 Grand Prix season primarily featured cars from the French and Italian car manufacturers Bugatti and Maserati. All six finishers at the Monaco Grand Prix drove Bugattis. Achille Varzi won two races driving a Maserati.

1930 Grand Prix season
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The World Manufacturers' Championship was planned on seven races, with European Grand Prix and other two mandatory; four races (Germany, Spain, Great Britain and Italy) were cancelled, another (France) was raced with sport-cars regulation. Moreover European Grand Prix was shorter than the mininum of 600 kilometres. For these reasons, the championship was cancelled. In the late summer AIACR started to work on the new European championship which would begin in 1931.

Season review

Grandes Épreuves
Date Name Circuit Winning driver Winning
constructor		 Report
30 May Indianapolis 500 Indianapolis Billy Arnold Summers-Miller Report
20 July Belgian Grand Prix
European Grand Prix		 Spa Louis Chiron Bugatti Report
21 September French Grand Prix Pau Philippe Étancelin Bugatti Report

The Indianapolis 500 counted towards the 1930 AAA Championship Car title.

Other Grands Prix
Heinrich-Joachim von Morgen won the Eifelrennen at the Nürburgring. He is pictured here at the same track in 1928. He would die in an accident at the Ring in 1932.
Date Name Circuit Winning driver Winning constructor Report
2 March Circuit d'Esterel Plage Saint-Raphaël René Dreyfus Bugatti Report
23 March Tripoli Grand Prix Tripoli Baconin Borzacchini Maserati Report
6 April Monaco Grand Prix Monte Carlo René Dreyfus Bugatti Report
20 April Alessandria Circuit Bordino Achille Varzi Alfa Romeo Report
27 April Oran Grand Prix Arcole Jean de Maleplane Bugatti Report
4 May Targa Florio Madonie Achille Varzi Alfa Romeo Report
18 May Picardy Grand Prix Péronne Max Fourny Bugatti Report
25 May Rome Grand Prix Tre Fontane Luigi Arcangeli Maserati Report
9 June Grand Prix des Frontières Chimay Georges de Marotte Salmson Report
15 June Lyon Grand Prix Quincieux Louis Chiron Bugatti Report
29 June Grand Prix de la Marne Reims-Gueux René Dreyfus Bugatti Report
19 July Irish Grand Prix Dublin Rudolf Caracciola Mercedes-Benz Report
20 July Eifelrennen Nürburgring Heinrich-Joachim von Morgen Bugatti Report
20 July Dieppe Grand Prix Dieppe Marcel Lehoux Bugatti Report
3 August Coppa Ciano Montenero Luigi Fagioli Maserati Report
10 August Dauphiné Circuit Grenoble Philippe Étancelin Bugatti Report
17 August Coppa Acerbo Pescara Achille Varzi Maserati Report
17 August Grand Prix du Comminges Saint-Gaudens François Miquel Bugatti Report
7 September Monza Grand Prix Monza Achille Varzi Maserati Report
8 September Lwów Grand Prix Lwów Henryk Liefeldt Austro Daimler Report
28 September Masaryk Circuit Brno Hermann zu Leiningen Bugatti Report
5 October San Sebastián Grand Prix Lasarte Achille Varzi Maserati Report

References
  • Etzrodt, Hans. "Grand Prix Winners 1895–1949 : Part 2 (1919–1933)". The Golden Era of Grand Prix Racing. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
  • Galpin, Darren. "1930 Grands Prix". The GEL Motorsport Information Page. Archived from the original on 20 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
  • Higham, Peter (1995). The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. Guinness Publishing. pp. 194–208. ISBN 0-85112-642-1.
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