Type: | GP |
Country: | FRA |
Grand Prix: | Albi |
Date: | 29 August |
Year: | 1948 |
Official Name: | X Grand Prix de l'Albigeois |
Location: | Albi, France |
Course: | Circuit Les Planques |
Course Length: | 8.88km (05.52miles) |
Distance Laps: | 34 |
Distance Length: | 301.94km (187.62miles) |
Pole Driver: | Luigi Villoresi |
Pole Team: | Maserati |
Pole Time: | 3:14.2 |
Pole Country: | ITA |
Fast Driver: | Luigi Villoresi |
Fast Team: | Maserati |
Fast Time: | 3:10.1 |
Fast Country: | ITA |
First Driver: | Luigi Villoresi |
First Team: | Maserati |
First Country: | ITA |
Second Driver: | Philippe Étancelin |
Second Team: | Talbot-Lago |
Second Country: | FRA |
Third Driver: | Louis Rosier |
Third Team: | Talbot-Lago |
Third Country: | FRA |
The 10th Grand Prix de l'Albigeois was a Formula One motor race held on 29 August 1948 at Les Planques circuit in Albi in the Tarn department of France. The race was held over two heats of 17 laps, with the winner being decided by aggregate time.
The winner was Luigi Villoresi in a Maserati 4CLT/48; he also set fastest qualifying time, set fastest lap and won both heats by a comfortable margin. His aggregate time was over 1 minute and 40 seconds ahead of second placed Philippe Étancelin in a Talbot-Lago T26C. Louis Rosier was third in another T26C.[1] [2]
Pos. | No. | Driver | Car | Time |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 8 | Luigi Villoresi | Maserati | 1:52:57.9 |
2 | 24 | Philippe Étancelin | Maserati | +2:39.0 |
3 | 8 | Louis Rosier | Talbot-Lago | +1 lap |
4 | 50 | Nando Righetti | Ferrari | +2 laps |
5 | 40 | Eugène Chaboud | Delahaye | +3 laps |
6 | 20 | Francesco Godia | Maserati | +4 laps |
7 | 32 | Gianfranco Comotti | Talbot-Lago | +4 laps |
8 | 46 | Pierre Meyrat | Delahaye | +4 laps |
9 | 38 | Pierre Levegh | Talbot-Lago | +5 laps |
10 | 2 | Louis Chiron | Talbot-Lago | +7 laps |
11 | 10 | Leslie Brooke | Maserati | +8 laps |
12 | 26 | Henri Louveau | Maserati | +8 laps |
Ret. | 30 | "Raph" | Talbot-Lago | 24 laps, accident |
Ret. | 42 | Charles Pozzi | Talbot-Lago | 19 laps |
Ret. | 48 | Igor Troubetzkoy | Ferrari | 17 laps, accident |
Ret. | 34 | Emmanuel de Graffenried | Maserati | 16 laps |
Ret. | 12 | B. Bira | Maserati | 11 laps, piston |
Ret. | 44 | Antonio Branca | Maserati | 10 laps |
Ret. | 22 | Salvador Fabregas | Maserati | 9 laps, suspension |
Ret. | 28 | Bobbie Baird | Emeryson-Duesenberg | 2 laps, magneto |
Ret. | 4 | Yves Giraud-Cabantous | Talbot-Lago | 1 lap, gearbox |
Ret. | 18 | Juan Jover | Maserati | 0 laps |
Ret. | 36 | Nello Pagani | Maserati | 0 laps, oil pipe |