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

DateNameCircuitWinning driverWinning
constructor
Report
30 May Indianapolis 500Indianapolis Billy ArnoldSummers-MillerReport
20 July Belgian Grand Prix
European Grand Prix
Spa Louis ChironBugattiReport
21 September French Grand PrixPau Philippe ÉtancelinBugattiReport

The Indianapolis 500 counted towards the 1930 AAA Championship Car title.

Other Grands Prix

DateNameCircuitWinning driverWinning constructorReport
2 March Circuit d'Esterel PlageSaint-Raphaël René DreyfusBugattiReport
23 March Tripoli Grand PrixTripoli Baconin BorzacchiniMaseratiReport
6 April Monaco Grand PrixMonte Carlo René DreyfusBugattiReport
20 April Alessandria CircuitBordino Achille VarziAlfa RomeoReport
27 April Oran Grand PrixArcole Jean de MaleplaneBugattiReport
4 May Targa FlorioMadonie Achille VarziAlfa RomeoReport
18 May Picardy Grand PrixPéronne Max FournyBugattiReport
25 May Rome Grand PrixTre Fontane Luigi ArcangeliMaseratiReport
9 June Grand Prix des FrontièresChimay Georges de MarotteSalmsonReport
15 June Lyon Grand PrixQuincieux Louis ChironBugattiReport
29 June Grand Prix de la MarneReims-Gueux René DreyfusBugattiReport
19 July Irish Grand PrixDublin Rudolf CaracciolaMercedes-BenzReport
20 July EifelrennenNürburgring Heinrich-Joachim von MorgenBugattiReport
20 July Dieppe Grand PrixDieppe Marcel LehouxBugattiReport
3 August Coppa CianoMontenero Luigi FagioliMaseratiReport
10 August Dauphiné CircuitGrenoble Philippe ÉtancelinBugattiReport
17 August Coppa AcerboPescara Achille VarziMaseratiReport
17 August Grand Prix du CommingesSaint-Gaudens François MiquelBugattiReport
7 September Monza Grand PrixMonza Achille VarziMaseratiReport
8 September Lwów Grand PrixLwów Henryk LiefeldtAustro DaimlerReport
28 September Masaryk CircuitBrno Hermann zu LeiningenBugattiReport
5 October San Sebastián Grand PrixLasarte Achille VarziMaseratiReport