Swiss Grand Prix

From WOI Encyclopedia Italia

Swiss Grand Prix

Circuit	Dijon-Prenois (France)
Laps	80
Circuit length km	3.800
Race length km	304.000
Most wins driver	Juan Manuel Fangio (2)
Most wins constructor	Ferrari (2)
Current year	1982
Winner	Keke Rosberg
Winning team	Williams-Ford
Winning time	1:32:41.087
Pole driver	Alain Prost
Pole team	Renault
Pole time	1:01.380
Fastest lap driver	Alain Prost
Fastest lap team	Renault
Fastest lap	1:07.477

The Swiss Grand Prix was the premier auto race of Switzerland. In its later years it was a Formula One race.

Grand Prix motor racing came to Switzerland in 1934, to the Bremgarten circuit, located just outside the town of Bremgarten, near Bern. The Swiss Grand Prix counted toward the European Championship from 1935 to 1939.

The Bremgarten track remained the home of the Swiss Grand Prix until 1954, after which motor racing was banned by the Swiss government as an unsafe spectator sport following the death of 80 people at the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans race. The Swiss Grand Prix returned in 1975 as a non-Championship Grand Prix just across the border, at the Dijon-Prenois circuit, France. The next, and last, Swiss Grand Prix was a round of the Formula One World Championship in 1982, also held at Dijon.

On June 6, 2007 Swiss Parliament voted to lift the ban of circuit racing in Switzerland, 97 in favor and 77 opposed. However, the legislation was subsequently not ratified by the Swiss Council of States (the Senat) and the ban is now highly unlikely to actually be lifted.

Winners of the Swiss Grand Prix

Events which were not part of the Formula One World Championship are indicated by a light gray background.

A yellow background indicates an event which was part of the pre-war European Championship.

Year	Driver	Constructor	Location	Report
1982	Keke Rosberg	Williams-Ford	Dijon (France)	Report
1981 - 1976	Not held
1975	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	Dijon (France)	Report
1974 - 1955	Not held
1954	Juan Manuel Fangio	Mercedes-Benz	Bremgarten	Report
1953	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari	Bremgarten	Report
1952	Piero Taruffi	Ferrari	Bremgarten	Report
1951	Juan Manuel Fangio	Alfa Romeo	Bremgarten	Report
1950	Nino Farina	Alfa Romeo	Bremgarten	Report
1949	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari	Bremgarten	Report
1948	Carlo Felice Trossi	Alfa Romeo	Bremgarten	Report
1947	Jean-Pierre Wimille	Alfa Romeo	Bremgarten	Report
1946 - 1940	Not held
1939	Hermann Lang	Mercedes-Benz	Bremgarten	Report
1938	Rudolf Caracciola	Mercedes-Benz	Bremgarten	Report
1937	Rudolf Caracciola	Mercedes-Benz	Bremgarten	Report
1936	Bernd Rosemeyer	Auto Union	Bremgarten	Report
1935	Rudolf Caracciola	Mercedes-Benz	Bremgarten	Report
1934	Hans Stuck	Auto Union	Bremgarten	Report