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Gran Premio del Sur

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Ángel Lo Valvo after winning the "Gran Premio del Sur" in 1939, as it appeared in magazine El Gráfico of April 14, 1939.

The Gran Premio del Sur (Southern Grand Prix) was a motorsport competition held three times between 1938 and 1942, on public roads in southern Argentina and Chile.

This competition, which was held with Turismo Carretera cars, was created as a complement to the Road Grand Prix that was organized annually by the Automóvil Club Argentino (ACA) and which generally took place on roads in the north of the country.

Interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War, the last edition took place in 1942.[1]

History

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Year N.º* Category Route Distance
(km)
Driver
Co-driver
Car Avg
(Km/h)
1938 XXI* TC Buenos Aires
Santa Rosa
Esquel
Comodoro Rivadavia
Río Gallegos
Bahía Blanca
Mar del Plata
La Plata
6224 (9 stages) Héctor Suppici Sedes
José Miguel Brausse
Ford V8 90.436
1939 XXIII* TC Buenos Aires
Santa Rosa
Mendoza
Santiago
Temuco
Neuquén
Esquel
Comodoro Rivadavia
Tandil
Mar del Plata
La Plata
7212 (11 stages) Ángel Lo Valvo
Antonio Spampinato
Ford V8 80.856
1940
-
1941
Was not run
1942 * TC Mercedes
General Pico
Río Colorado
Zapala
Cañadón León
Puerto San Julián
El Calafate
Río Gallegos
Punta Arenas
Puerto Deseado
Las Heras
Viedma
Bahía Blanca
7193 (10 stages) Esteban Fernandino
Pedro Quiña
Ford V8 91.097
  • No edition had official numbering, but the 1938 and 1939 editions were included in the retrospective count of the Road Grand Prix editions carried out by ACA in 1951, to which the numbers XXI and XXIII were assigned respectively. Not so in 1942, which was not organized by ACA, but by a local commission from Esquel.

References

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  1. ^ Alfredo Parga, Historia deportiva del automovilismo argentino (Buenos Aires: La Nación, 1995)