Jardim America

The 1936 São Paulo City Grand Prix was held on a street circuit in the city’s Jardim América district. Both sides of Avenida Brasil were connected by a tight hairpin, with startline in front of the offices of the São Paulo Car Club, and rectangular section using the Rua Canada and Dua Chile. The event was marred by the worst accident in Brazilian motorsport when Mademoiselle “Hellé Nice” lost control on the last lap in circumstances that are unclear. She barrel-rolled twice and crashed into a grandstand with tragic consequences. “Hellé Nice” recovered from the fractured skull she had sustained after two months in a coma, but a spectator and five policemen were killed.