The 1937 Grand Prix season was the fifth AIACREuropean Championship season. The championship was won by Rudolf Caracciola, driving for the Mercedes-Benz team. Caracciola won three of the five events that counted towards the championship.
This season saw the most powerful Grand Prix cars so far, Mercedes-Benz supercharged 5.6L inline-8 engines boasting nearly 650 bhp. Considering that an average saloon car produced around 25 bhp at the time, the performance of these single-seaters was extremely high compared with any other season in modern motorsport; so much so that for the first time ever, regulations were put in force for the following year to limit the engines' size capacity to reduce their power and to add weight to the cars to make them slower. Mercedes-Benz's development of their technology was thanks almost entirely to the state-subsidies that they were receiving from the Nazi German government at the time. The amount of power the supercharged Mercedes-Benz W125's had was not equaled in racing cars until American Can-Am cars in the late 1960s, and European Grand Prix cars did not have this kind of power again until the early 1980s (a span of nearly 45 years), when Grand Prix racing had long since become Formula One.
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regulations were put in force for the following year to limit the engines size capacity to reduce their power and to add weight to the cars to make them slower Mercedes Benz s development of their technology was thanks almost entirely to the state subsidies that they were receiving from the Nazi German government at the time The amount of power the supercharged Mercedes Benz W125 s had was not equaled in racing cars until American Can Am cars in the late 1960s and European Grand Prix cars did not have this kind of power again until the early 1980s a span of nearly 45 years when Grand Prix racing had long since become Formula One Contents 1 Season review 1 1 European Championship Grands Prix 1 2 Non championship Grands Prix 2 Championship final standings 3 ReferencesSeason review EditEuropean Championship Grands Prix Edit Rd Date Name Circuit Winning drivers Winning constructor Report1 11 July Belgian Grand Prix Spa Francorchamps Rudolf Hasse Auto Union Report2 25 July German Grand Prix Nurburgring Rudolf Caracciola Mercedes Benz Report3 8 August Monaco Grand Prix Monaco Manfred von Brauchitsch Mercedes Benz Report4 22 August Swiss Grand Prix Bremgarten Rudolf Caracciola Mercedes Benz Report5 12 September Italian Grand Prix Livorno Rudolf Caracciola Mercedes Benz ReportNon championship Grands Prix Edit Date Name Circuit Winning driver Winning constructor ReportJanuary Grosnevor Grand Prix Grosnevor South Africa Ernst von Delius Auto Union Report14 February Flatenloppet Flaten Stockholm Eugen Bjornstad Alfa Romeo Report18 April Valentino Grand Prix Turin Antonio Brivio Alfa Romeo Report25 April Naples Grand Prix Posillipo Giuseppe Farina Alfa Romeo Report1 May Campbell Trophy Brooklands Prince Bira Maserati Report9 May Tripoli Grand Prix Mellaha Hermann Lang Mercedes Benz Report9 May Elaintarhan ajot Elaintarharata Hans Ruesch Alfa Romeo Report16 May Grand Prix des Frontieres Chimay Hans Ruesch Alfa Romeo Report30 May Avusrennen AVUS Hermann Lang Mercedes Benz Report30 May Superba Circuit Genoa Carlo Felice Trossi Alfa Romeo Report30 May Bucharest Grand Prix Bucharest Hans Ruesch Alfa Romeo Report6 June Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix Gavea Carlo Maria Pintacuda Alfa Romeo Report13 June Eifelrennen Nurburgring Bernd Rosemeyer Auto Union Report20 June Milan Grand Prix Milan Tazio Nuvolari Alfa Romeo Report5 July Vanderbilt Cup Roosevelt Raceway Bernd Rosemeyer Auto Union Report25 July San Remo Grand Prix San Remo Circuit Achille Varzi Maserati Report25 July Vila Real Circuit Vila Real Vasco Sameiro Alfa Romeo Report15 August Coppa Acerbo Pescara Bernd Rosemeyer Auto Union Report15 August Estoril Circuit Estoril Manoel de Oliveira Ford Report28 August Junior Car Club 200 mile race Donington Park Arthur Dobson ERA Report26 September Masaryk Grand Prix Brno Rudolf Caracciola Mercedes Benz Report2 October Donington Grand Prix Donington Park Bernd Rosemeyer Auto Union Report16 October Mountain Championship Brooklands Hans Ruesch Alfa Romeo Report31 October Kalastajatorpanajo Helsinki Karl Ebb Mercedes Benz ReportChampionship final standings EditPos Driver BEL GER MON SUI ITA Pts1 Rudolf Caracciola 1 2 1 1 132 Manfred von Brauchitsch Ret 2 1 3 Ret 153 Hermann Lang 3 7 2 2 19 Christian Kautz 4 6 3 6 Ret 195 Hans Stuck 2 Ret 4 4 9 206 Raymond Sommer 5 Ret 7 8 277 Rudolf Hasse 1 5 Ret 28 Bernd Rosemeyer 3 Ret Ret 3 28 Tazio Nuvolari 4 5 7 28 Giuseppe Farina Ret 6 Ret Ret 2811 Laszlo Hartmann Ret Ret 9 2912 Hans Ruesch 8 8 Ret 3113 Vittorio Belmondo 12 10 3214 Hermann Paul Muller Ret Ret 5 3315 Richard Seaman Ret 4 34 Clemente Biondetti Ret Ret 3417 Luigi Soffietti Ret Ret 35 Carlo Felice Trossi Ret 8 35 Paul Pietsch Ret 10 3520 Kenneth Evans 9 36 Erno Festetics 10 36 Attilio Marinoni 11 36 Giovanni Minozzi Ret Ret 36 Goffredo Zehender 5 36 Carlo Maria Pintacuda 9 36 Luigi Fagioli 7 36 Achille Varzi 6 3628 Henri Simonet Ret 37 Adolfo Mandirola Ret 3730 Franco Cortese Ret 38 Ernst von Delius Ret 38 Giovanbattista Guidotti Ret 3833 Francesco Severi Ret 39 Renato Balestrero Ret 39 Edoardo Teagno Ret 39 Antonio Brivio Ret 39 Max Christen Ret 39Pos Driver BEL GER MON SUI ITA Pts Colour Result PointsGold Winner 1Silver 2nd place 2Bronze 3rd place 3Green Completed more than 75 4Blue Completed between 50 and 75 5Purple Completed between 25 and 50 6Red Completed less than 25 7Black Disqualified 8Blank Did not participate 8References Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1937 in auto racing Etzrodt Hans Grand Prix Winners 1895 1949 Part 3 1934 1949 The Golden Era of Grand Prix Racing Archived from the original on 6 August 2007 Retrieved 2007 08 05 Leif Snellman and Hans Etzrodt 1937 The Golden Era of Grand Prix Racing Retrieved 2007 08 05 Galpin Darren 1937 Grands Prix The GEL Motorsport Information Page Archived from the original on 2007 09 29 Retrieved 2007 08 05 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1937 Grand Prix season amp oldid 1131757477, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
