{"id":490970,"date":"2009-10-05T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=334744"},"modified":"2025-01-10T21:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T21:27:41","slug":"1933-tripoli-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1933-tripoli-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Formula 1 Races &#8211; The Tripoli Grand Prix of 1933"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1933 Tripoli Grand Prix &#8211; <span class=\"bodyText\">The Race That Was Rigged<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Alfred Neubauer from Speed was My Life<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"bodyText\">It was in 1933 that the giant American airship Akron crashed in the Atlantic with all hands aboard. Thirteen years of Prohibition ended in the United States. In Germany, the cruiser Admiral Scheer was launched. Goebbels imposed a boycott on Jewish businessmen and the first concentration camps were established. And in the Italian colony of Libya, Italo Balbo opened the new racing circuit at Tripoli, the fastest in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bodyText\">Unlike the narrow, twisting course at Monte-Carlo, the Tripoli circuit was 8 \u00bc miles long. You could keep up a speed of 120 m.p.h.- and break your neck.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"bodyText\">The drivers were well aware of this. So, too, were the authorities. They wanted sensational publicity for Italy, for Mussolini&#8217;s &#8216;Roman Empire&#8217; and especially for Marshal Balbo, the new governor of Libya, the elegant sportsman who had mapped out a brilliant future for himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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