1936 Hungarian Grand Prix

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**I° MAGYARORSZAG NAGYDIJA**
Date	21 June 1936
Location	Nepliget, Budapest
Course	5km
Distance	50 laps 250.00km
Weather	-
Pole Position	Hans Stuck, 2'39.83
Fastest Lap	Tazio Nuvolari 3'35.60
Winner	Tazio Nuvolari, 2:14'03.5
2nd Place	Bernd Rosemeyer
3rd Place	Achille Varzi
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The 1936 Hungarian Grand Prix was a 750kg Formula race held on June 21, 1936 at the Nepliget Park of Budapest.

[edit] Race Report

100,000 spectators had gathered on the twisty track in Nepliget, a garden in Budapest to see the first Hungarian Grand Prix.

Tazio Nuvolari took the start but then Bernd Rosemeyer went into the lead followed by Hans Stuck, Manfred von Brauchitsch, Rudolf Caracciola and Nuvolari. Stuck was feeling ill however and had to stop to give over to reserve driver von Delius. Von Brauchitsch was also falling back. Order: Rosemeyer, Caracciola and Nuvolari.

After some ten laps Caracciola took his Mercedes up in the lead. But then problems related to a design issue with the Mercedes engine blocks arose. Chiron's car was the first to retire followed by Caracciola after half the race was run. There was an incident when Nuvolari tried to lap von Brauchitsch. The cars almost touched and the Mercedes spun, hitting a telegraph pole. At this point, all the Mercedes cars were out of the race.

Another driver out of the race was backmarker Martin retiring his private Alfa Romeo with transmission trouble. Rosemeyer had a 37 second lead over Nuvolari but then suddenly Rosemeyer got into trouble and the Ferrari driver was able to catch the leader in only three laps and take the lead on lap 33. Nuvolari soon opened up a 15 second lead and then kept the advantage to the flag with Rosemeyer unable to respond.

The other finishers were several laps behind, Varzi finished third followed by Tadini 's Alfa.

It had been another amazing drive from Nuvolari, beating the Germans fairly and squarely. Immediately after the race Rosemeyer went back to hospital to check his liver.

[edit] Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
1	24	Tazio Nuvolari	Alfa Romeo	50	2:14.03.5	3
2	16	Bernd Rosemeyer	Auto Union	50	+ 14.2	2
3	14	Achille Varzi	Auto Union	48	+ 2 laps	5
4	28	Mario Tadini	Alfa Romeo	47	+ 3 laps	8
5	12	Hans Stuck/Ernst von Delius	Auto Union	46	+ 4 laps	1
6	4	Austin Dobson	Alfa Romeo	45	+ 5 laps	10
7	10	László Hartmann	Maserati	44	+ 6 laps	9
DNF	22	Manfred von Brauchitsch	Mercedes-Benz	40	crash	4
DNF	6	Charlie Martin	Alfa Romeo	32/35	rear axle	11
DNF	18	Rudolf Caracciola	Mercedes-Benz	26	engine (crash?)	6
DNF	20	Louis Chiron	Mercedes-Benz	19	engine/supercharger	7
DNS	2	Eileen Mary Ellison	Maserati
DNS	8	George Raphael Béthenod	Maserati
DNS	30	Petre Cristea	Ford V9
DNS	32	José Maria de Villapadierna	Alfa Romeo