Alfa romeo p3. It was based on the earlier successful alfa romeo p2. It was powered by an eight cylinder engine built around two four cylinder blocks each fed by its own roots supercharger. The first confrontation between the german cars and the p3 came at montlhery and alfa romeo scored a rousing one two three victory.
The alfa romeo tipo b p3 monoposto was the first genuine single seat racing car in grand prix racing. Taking lessons learned from that car jano went back to the drawing board to design a car that could last longer race distances. This p3 was a winner thanks to its combination of great drivers and brilliant engineering.
The cars most significant problem was the financial trouble overrunning the company that built it. The p3 was a single seater classic grand prix race car designed by vittorio jano. Nuvolari driving an alfa romeo p3 in the 1935 grand prix de pau nuvolari after winning the 1935 grand prix de pau in april 1934 nuvolari entered the monaco grand prix in a privately owned bugatti and worked up to third place before brake problems forced him back to fifth at the finish two laps behind the winner guy moll.
The alfa romeo p3 based on the earlier alfa romeo p2 was powered by a supercharged 29l 2905 cc inline 8 engine. The p3 was first genuine single seat grand prix racing car and alfa romeos second monoposto after tipo a monoposto 1931. One of the engines major strengths was its low speed torque.
Weighing just 701 kilograms 1545 pounds and producing 255bhp the alfa romeo p3 was an exceptionally quick grand prix car in the early to mid 1930s. In 1932 it swept the grand prix races in italy france and germany. Forza horizon 4 1934 alfa romeo p3 car show speed jump crash test.
1934 alfa romeo p3 f1 car all out at pacific raceway washington. Alex djuzhen 2686 views. Specifically when the anthropomorphic school of car designexemplified by cars such as the alfa romeo tipo 33 stradale and ferrari p34 was suddenly swept away by the straight edges and extreme.