Type: | GP |
Country: | SUI |
Grand Prix: | Suisse Orientale |
Date: | 8 August |
Year: | 1948 |
Official Name: | Preis von Ostschweiz-Erlen |
Location: | Erlen, Switzerland |
Course: | Temporary street circuit |
Course Length: | 2.8km (01.7miles) |
Distance Laps: | 50 |
Distance Length: | 140km (90miles) |
Pole Driver: | Emmanuel de Graffenried |
Pole Country: | CH |
Pole Team: | Maserati |
Pole Time: | 1:26.8 |
Fast Driver: | Emmanuel de Graffenried |
Fast Team: | Maserati |
Fast Time: | 1:31.6 |
Fast Country: | CH |
First Driver: | Emmanuel de Graffenried |
First Country: | CH |
First Team: | Maserati |
Second Driver: | Rudi Fischer |
Second Country: | CH |
Second Team: | Gordini |
Third Country: | CH |
Third Team: | Cisitalia |
The 1948 Preis von Ostschweiz-Erlen was a Formula One motor race held on 8 August 1948 over 50 laps of a street circuit in Erlen, Switzerland. Emmanuel de Graffenried, driving a Maserati 4CL, started from pole, set fastest lap and won the race. Rudi Fischer was second in a Simca Gordini Type 11, and Walter Wüst was third in a Cisitalia D46-Fiat.[1] [2]
Pos | No | Driver | Entrant | Car | Time | Grid |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 12 | Emmanuel de Graffenried | Emmanuel de Graffenried | Maserati 4CL | 1:22:14.8 | 1 |
2 | 6 | Rudi Fischer | Ecurie Espadon | Simca Gordini Type 11 | +1:17.8 | 3 |
3 | 8 | Walter Wüst | Walter Wüst | Cisitalia D46-Fiat | +2 laps | 4 |
4 | 16 | Toni Branca | Toni Branca | Maserati 4CL | +3 laps | 2 |
5 | 10 | Humbert Joly | Humbert Joly | Cisitalia D46-Fiat | +7 laps | 8 |
Ret | 4 | André Canonica | Ecurie Autosport | Cisitalia D46-Fiat | 12 laps | 7 |
Ret | 22 | Richard Ramseyer | Ecurie Autosport | Maserati 4CL | 8 laps, gearbox | 6 |
Ret | 2 | Claude Bernheim | Ecurie Autosport | Cisitalia D46-Fiat | 1 lap, engine | 5 |
DNS | 18 | Max Renz | S. Hansen | BMW Eigenbau | 9 | |
DNA | 14 | Frank Séchehaye | Emmanuel de Graffenried | Maserati 4CL | ||
DNA | 20 | Hans Kaufmann | Hans Kaufmann | Maserati 4CL | ||