1934 Italian Grand Prix

1934 Italian Grand Prix
Race details
Date 9 September 1934
Official name XII Gran Premio d'Italia
Location Autodromo Nazionale di Monza
Monza, Italy
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 4.33 km (2.69 miles)
Distance 116 laps, 502.280 km (312.102 miles)
Pole position
Driver Mercedes-Benz
Grid positions set by ballot
Fastest lap
Driver Hans Stuck Auto Union
Time 2:13.6
Podium
First Mercedes-Benz
Second
Auto Union
Third Alfa Romeo

The 1934 Italian Grand Prix (formally the XII Gran Premio d'Italia) was a Grand Prix motor race, which was run on 9 September 1934 in Monza, Italy. The race lasted 502.28 km (4.330 x 116 laps). It was the 12th running of the Italian Grand Prix.

After the fatal accidents of the previous year, it was decided to hold the race in a different configuration, using the main straight (in both directions, linked by a very tight hairpin just before the finish line), the southern corner of the oval, the southern corner of the road circuit and two double chicanes; it was the slowest configuration ever used in Monza.