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1946 Turin Grand Prix information


1946 Turin Grand Prix
Race details
Date 1 September 1946
Official name III Gran Premio del Valentino
Location Valentino Park
Turin, Italy
Course Street circuit
Course length 4.489 km (2.789 miles)
Distance 60 laps, 269.926 km (167.724 miles)
Weather Light rain from lap 30, turning to heavy rain before the finish[1]
Pole position
Driver
  • Italy Giuseppe Farina
Alfa Romeo
Time 2:18.6
Fastest lap
Driver France Jean-Pierre Wimille Alfa Romeo
Time 2:22.1
Podium
First
  • Italy Achille Varzi
Alfa Romeo
Second
  • France Jean-Pierre Wimille
Alfa Romeo
Third
  • France Raymond Sommer
Maserati
Second place finisher Jean-Pierre Wimille in front of winner Achille Varzi

The 1946 Turin Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Valentino Park on 1 September 1946. It was the first ever Formula One race, as the race regulations anticipated the official introduction of the new formula on 1 January 1947.

The race was attended by 120,000-200,000 spectators.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b Farinelli, Aldo (3 September 1946). "I vincitori dei milioni e della corsa". La Nuova Stampa (in Italian) (206): 3. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Turin G.P." Motor Sport. 22 (10): 8. October 1946.

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