1930 Grand Prix season
The 1930 Grand Prix season primarily featured cars from the French and Italian car manufacturers Bugatti and Maserati. All six finishers at the Monaco Grand Prix drove Bugattis. Achille Varzi won two races driving a Maserati.
The World Manufacturers' Championship was planned on seven races, with European Grand Prix and other two mandatory; four races were cancelled, another was raced with sport-cars regulation. Moreover European Grand Prix was shorter than the minimum of 600 kilometres. For these reasons, the championship was cancelled.
In the late summer AIACR started to work on the new European championship which would begin in 1931.
Season review
Grandes Épreuves
Date | Name | Circuit | Winning driver | Winning constructor | Report |
30 May | Indianapolis 500 | Indianapolis | Billy Arnold | Summers-Miller | Report |
20 July | Belgian Grand Prix European Grand Prix | Spa | Louis Chiron | Bugatti | Report |
21 September | French Grand Prix | Pau | Philippe Étancelin | Bugatti | Report |
The Indianapolis 500 counted towards the 1930 AAA Championship Car title.
Other Grands Prix
Date | Name | Circuit | Winning driver | Winning constructor | Report |
2 March | Circuit d'Esterel Plage | Saint-Raphaël | René Dreyfus | Bugatti | Report |
23 March | Tripoli Grand Prix | Tripoli | Baconin Borzacchini | Maserati | Report |
6 April | Monaco Grand Prix | Monte Carlo | René Dreyfus | Bugatti | Report |
20 April | Alessandria Circuit | Bordino | Achille Varzi | Alfa Romeo | Report |
27 April | Oran Grand Prix | Arcole | Jean de Maleplane | Bugatti | Report |
4 May | Targa Florio | Madonie | Achille Varzi | Alfa Romeo | Report |
18 May | Picardy Grand Prix | Péronne | Max Fourny | Bugatti | Report |
25 May | Rome Grand Prix | Tre Fontane | Luigi Arcangeli | Maserati | Report |
9 June | Grand Prix des Frontières | Chimay | Georges de Marotte | Salmson | Report |
15 June | Lyon Grand Prix | Quincieux | Louis Chiron | Bugatti | Report |
29 June | Grand Prix de la Marne | Reims-Gueux | René Dreyfus | Bugatti | Report |
19 July | Irish Grand Prix | Dublin | Rudolf Caracciola | Mercedes-Benz | Report |
20 July | Eifelrennen | Nürburgring | Heinrich-Joachim von Morgen | Bugatti | Report |
20 July | Dieppe Grand Prix | Dieppe | Marcel Lehoux | Bugatti | Report |
3 August | Coppa Ciano | Montenero | Luigi Fagioli | Maserati | Report |
10 August | Dauphiné Circuit | Grenoble | Philippe Étancelin | Bugatti | Report |
17 August | Coppa Acerbo | Pescara | Achille Varzi | Maserati | Report |
17 August | Grand Prix du Comminges | Saint-Gaudens | François Miquel | Bugatti | Report |
7 September | Monza Grand Prix | Monza | Achille Varzi | Maserati | Report |
8 September | Lwów Grand Prix | Lwów | Henryk Liefeldt | Austro Daimler | Report |
28 September | Masaryk Circuit | Brno | Hermann zu Leiningen | Bugatti | Report |
5 October | San Sebastián Grand Prix | Lasarte | Achille Varzi | Maserati | Report |