The 1923 Italian Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Monza on 9 September 1923.
It was the first race to be designated as the European Grand Prix. Rules required a capacity limit of 2 liter, minimum weight of 650 kg, and 800 km distance, as in the Indy 500. Alfa Romeo suffered a fatal crash in practice and withdrew its other cars.
Only FIAT had superchargers and won 1-2 in a race of attrition. Only one of the American Miller 122 could also cover the full distance, taking several minutes more, while the best of the Benz RH came in fourth, and also last to be classified. The three Benz RH Tropfenwagen were down on power, but featured innovations like streamlined tear shape body with the Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout that took four more decades to dominate single seater racing ever since.
Classification
PosNoDriverCarLapsTime/Retired 1 14 Carlo Salamano Fiat 805-405 80 5h27m38 2 8 Felice Nazzaro Fiat 805-405 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Louis Zborowski Miller 122 15 Ret 3 Eugenio Silvani Voisin Laboratoire 14 Mechanical DNS 6 Antonio Ascari Alfa Romeo P1 Withdrawn DNS 12 Giuseppe Campari Alfa Romeo P1 Withdrawn DNS 17 Ugo Sivocci Alfa Romeo P1 Fatal crash in practice
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