29th, Historic Battle at Montlhéry: Alfa Romeo's 1-2-3 Triumph in the French Grand Prix
Scuderia Ferrari’s Alfa Romeos mopped up while the Germans prepared for action: 1-2s at Monaco and in the Targa Florio, plus a 1-2-3-4 at Alessandria, a 1-2-3 in Tripoli and a win in Morocco, with Guy Moll, Louis Chiron and Achille Varzi sharing the spoils.
They even finished 1-2 – Moll from Varzi – at the Avusrennen (May 27) in the debut presence of Auto Union, although Hans Stuck’s radical rear-engined device had disappeared over the horizon before suffering a broken clutch.
Mercedes-Benz arrived later, at the Nürburgring’s Eifelrennen on June 3, and promptly ended Alfa’s run of success, courtesy of Manfred von Brauchitsch; Stuck was second. That, though, was home soil. The French GP would be a truer test of the preparedness of the Silver Arrows.