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1938 Grand Prix season

Sixth AIACR European Championship season

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The 1938 Grand Prix season was the sixth AIACR European Championship season. The championship was won by Rudolf Caracciola, driving for the Mercedes-Benz team. Caracciola won one of the four events that counted towards the championship.

Season review

European Championship Grands Prix

Rd	Date	Name	Circuit	Winning drivers	Winning constructor
3 July	FRA French Grand Prix	Reims-Gueux	DEU Manfred von Brauchitsch	Mercedes-Benz	Report
24 July	DEU German Grand Prix	Nürburgring	GBR Richard Seaman	Mercedes-Benz	Report
21 August	CHE Swiss Grand Prix	Bremgarten	DEU Rudolf Caracciola	Mercedes-Benz	Report
11 September	ITA Italian Grand Prix	Monza	ITA Tazio Nuvolari	Auto Union	Report

Non-championship Grands Prix

Grandes Épreuves are denoted by a yellow background.

Date	Name	Circuit	Winning driver	Winning constructor	Report
10 April	FRA Pau Grand Prix	Pau	FRA René Dreyfus	Delahaye	Report
18 April	GBR Campbell Trophy	Brooklands	THA Prince Bira	ERA	Report
23 April	IRL Cork Grand Prix	Carrigrohane	FRA René Dreyfus	Delahaye	Report
15 May	LBY Tripoli Grand Prix	Mellaha	DEU Hermann Lang	Mercedes-Benz	Report
29 May	BRA Gávea Nacional Circuit	Gávea	BRA Arthur Nascimento Jr	Alfa Romeo	Report
5 June	BEL Grand Prix des Frontières	Chimay	FRA Maurice Trintignant	Bugatti	Report
12 June	BRA Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix	Gávea	ITA Carlo Maria Pintacuda	Alfa Romeo	Report
7 August	ITA Coppa Ciano	Montenero	DEU Hermann Lang	Mercedes-Benz	Report
15 August	ITA Coppa Acerbo	Pescara	DEU Rudolf Caracciola	Mercedes-Benz	Report
27 August	GBR Junior Car Club 200 mile race	Brooklands	GBR Johnny Wakefield	ERA	Report
15 October	GBR Mountain Championship	Brooklands	GBR Raymond Mays	ERA	Report
22 October	GBR Donington Grand Prix	Donington Park	ITA Tazio Nuvolari	Auto Union	Report

Championship final standings

Pos	Driver	FRA
FRA	GER
DEU	SUI
CHE	ITA
ITA	Pts	1	2	3	4	5	=	=	8	9	=	11	12	13	14	=	=	=	=	=	=	=	=	=	24	=	26	=	=	=	=	31	=	=	=	=	36	Pos	Driver	FRA
FRA	GER
DEU	SUI
CHE	ITA
ITA	Pts
DEU Rudolf Caracciola	2	2	1	3	8
DEU Manfred von Brauchitsch	1	Ret	3	Ret	15
DEU Hermann Lang	3	Ret	10	Ret	17
GBR Richard Seaman		1	2	Ret	18
ITA Tazio Nuvolari		Ret	9	1	20
DEU Hans Stuck		3	4	Ret	20
DEU Hermann Paul Müller		4	Ret	Ret	20
ITA Giuseppe Farina		Ret	5	2	21
FRA René Dreyfus		5	8		24
ITA Pietro Ghersi		8		5	24
FRA Jean-Pierre Wimille	Ret		7	Ret	25
ITA Piero Taruffi		Ret	6	Ret	26
ITA Clemente Biondetti		Ret		4	27
FRA René Carrière	4				28
CHE Christian Kautz	Ret		Ret	Ret	28
DEU Rudolf Hasse	Ret	Ret			28
DEU Paul Pietsch		6			28
ITA Renato Balestrero		7			28
ITA Franco Cortese		9			28
FRA "Raph"			11		28
ITA Emilio Romano			12		28
CHE Max Christen			13		28
ITA Edoardo Teagno			14		28
FRA Philippe Étancelin	Ret				29
GBR Arthur Hyde		Ret			29
CHE Adolfo Mandirola			Ret		30
ITA Giovanni Minozzi			Ret		30
ITA Luigi Villoresi				Ret	30
ITA Goffredo Zehender				Ret	30
ITA Vittorio Belmondo				Ret	30
FRA Eugène Chaboud	Ret				31
CHE Toulo de Graffenried		Ret			31
ITA Franco Comotti		Ret			31
DEU Herbert Berg		Ret			31
HUN István de Sztriha			Ret		31
ITA Carlo Felice Trossi				DSQ	32

References

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