The Gran Premio del Sur (Southern Grand Prix) was a motorsport competition held on three occasions between 1938 and 1942, on public roads in southern Argentina and Chile.
This competition, which was held with Turismo Carretera cars, was created as a complement to the Road Grand Prix that was organized annually by the Automóvil Club Argentino (ACA) and which generally took place on roads in the north of the country.
Interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War, the last edition took place in 1942.Alfredo Parga, Historia deportiva del automovilismo argentino (Buenos Aires: La Nación, 1995)
History YearEditionCategoryRouteDistance(km)DriverCo-driverCar(Km/h)1938XXI*TC Buenos Aires Santa Rosa Esquel Comodoro Rivadavia Río Gallegos Bahía Blanca Mar del Plata La Plata6224 (9 stages) Héctor Suppici Sedes José Miguel BrausseFord V890.4361939XXIII*TC Buenos Aires Santa Rosa Mendoza Santiago Temuco Neuquén Esquel Comodoro Rivadavia Tandil Mar del Plata La Plata7212 (11 stages) Ángel Lo Valvo Antonio SpampinatoFord V880.8561940-1941Was not run1942*TC Mercedes General Pico Río Colorado Zapala Cañadón León Puerto San Julián El Calafate Río Gallegos Punta Arenas Puerto Deseado Las Heras Viedma Bahía Blanca7193 (10 stages) Esteban Fernandino Pedro QuiñaFord V891.097 No edition had official numbering, but the 1938 and 1939 editions were included in the retrospective count of the Road Grand Prix editions carried out by ACA in 1951, to which the numbers XXI and XXIII were assigned respectively. Not so in 1942, which was not organized by ACA, but by a local commission from Esquel.
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