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1907 French Grand Prix

1907 French Grand Prix
Race details
Date July 2, 1907
Official name Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France
Location Dieppe, France
Course Public roads
Course length 76.989 km (47.840 mi)
Distance 10 laps, 769.889 km (478.400 mi)
Fastest lap
Driver Arthur Duray Lorraine-Dietrich
Time 37:59.8
Podium
First
FIAT
Second
Renault
Third
Brasier

The 1907 French Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Dieppe on 2 July 1907.

1907 French Grand Prix Intro articles: 3
Grand Prix motor racing
Grand Prix motor racing, a form of motorsport competition, has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as early as 1894. It quickly evolved from simple road races from one town to the next, to endurance tests for car and driver. Innovation and the drive of competition soon saw speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour (160 km/h), but because early races took place on open roads, accidents occurred frequently, resulting in deaths both of drivers and of spectators.More
Motorsport
Motorsport, motorsports or motor sport is a global term used to encompass the group of competitive sporting events which primarily involve the use of motorised vehicles, whether for racing or non-racing competition. The terminology can also be used to describe forms of competition of two-wheeled motorised vehicles under the banner of motorcycle racing, and includes off-road racing such as motocross.More
Dieppe
Dieppe is a coastal community in the Arrondissement of Dieppe in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. The population stood at 29,080 in 2017.More

The Race

Thirty-eight cars set off at one-minute intervals to complete 10 laps of a 48-mile (77 km) circuit on a triangular circuit near the city of Dieppe. The field was led away by Vincenzo Lancia's Fiat. The race was run under a fuel consumption limit of 30 litres per 100 kilometres (7.84 miles per US gallon; 9.42 miles per imperial gallon).[1] Louis Wagner led the race for the first three laps. After Wagner retired on lap four, Arthur Duray took the lead.[2] Duray set the fastest lap, with an average speed of 75.40 mph (121.34 km/h), and led the race until his retirement on lap nine. Felice Nazzaro's Fiat led from this point until the finish, completing the race over six and a half minutes ahead of second placed Ferenc Szisz. Nazzaro's average speed was 70.6 mph (113.6 km/h) for the race.[3][4]

Death

Albert Clément died in a crash during practice while driving his Clément-Bayard. His place in the race was taken by 'Alezy'.[5]

1907 French Grand Prix The Race articles: 8
1 Vincenzo Lancia
Vincenzo Lancia was an Italian racing driver, engineer and founder of Lancia.More
2 Fiat
Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian automobile manufacturer, a subsidiary of Stellantis. Fiat Automobiles was formed in January 2007 when Fiat reorganized its automobile business, and traces its history back to 1899 when the first Fiat automobile, the Fiat 4 HP, was produced.More
3 Louis Wagner (driver)
Louis Wagner was a French Grand Prix driver who won the first ever United States and British Grands Prix. Wagner was also a pioneer aviator.More
4 Arthur Duray
Arthur Duray was born in New York City of Belgian parents and later became a French citizen. An early aviator, he held Belgian license #3. He is probably best known today for breaking the land speed record on three separate occasions between July, 1903 and March, 1904. Driver George Stewart legally changed his name to Leon Duray in tribute to fellow driver Arthur Duray.More
5 Felice Nazzaro
Felice Nazzaro was an Italian racecar driver, a native of Turin. He won the Kaiserpreis in 1907 as well as the French Grand Prix in 1907 and 1922 and Targa Florio in 1907, and 1913. His European wins in 1907 resulted in an invitation to compete in the 1908 American Grand Prize in Savannah, Georgia, where he finished third. He returned to the United States for the 1910 event but a damaged rear axle forced him out of the race. It was his victory in the 1908 Circuito di Bologna that inspired a young Enzo Ferrari to become a racing driver. He continued racing until 1929 at the age of 48, and Nazzaro died in Turin in 1940 after a long illness at the age of 58.More
6 Ferenc Szisz
Ferenc Szisz, was a Hungarian race car driver and the winner of the first Grand Prix motor racing event on a Renault Grand Prix 90CV on 26 June, 1906.More
7 Albert Clément
Albert Clément was a French motor racing driver. In 1904 he won the II Ardennes Cup race and finished third in the III Ardennes Cup race at Bastogne. He also finished second in the Vanderbilt Cup on Long Island. In 1906 he finished third in the inaugural French Grand Prix and 4th in the Vanderbilt Cup. All his driving was in the Clément-Bayard factory team that was owned by his father Adolphe Clément-Bayard.More
8 Clément-Bayard
Clément-Bayard, Bayard-Clément, was a French manufacturer of automobiles, aeroplanes and airships founded in 1903 by entrepreneur Gustave Adolphe Clément. Clément obtained consent from the Conseil d'Etat to change his name to that of his business in 1909. The extra name celebrated the Chevalier Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard who saved the town of Mézières in 1521. A statue of the Chevalier stood in front of Clément's Mézières factory, and the image was incorporated into the company logo.More

Classification

Pos No Driver Car Laps Time/Retired
1 F2 Felice Nazzaro Fiat 130 HP 10 6:46:33.0
2 R1 Ferenc Szisz Renault AK +6:37.6
3 B2 Paul Baras Brasier +18:32.6
4 LD3 Fernand Gabriel Lorraine-Dietrich +25:06.0
5 D3 Victor Rigal Darracq +26:03.4
6 D2 Gustave Caillois Darracq +29:25.6
7 B1 Jules Barillier Brasier +41:21.0
8 BC1 Pierre Garcet Clément-Bayard +47:44.0
9 BC3 Elliott Shepard Clément-Bayard +53:23.2
10 M3 Victor Hémery Mercedes +1:38:52.0
11 MB3 Courtade Motobloc +2:02:00.6
12 B3 Paul Bablot Brasier +2:26:26.6
13 R3 Claude Richez Renault AK +2:44:19.4
14 GE2 François Degrais Germain +3:04:03.4
15 GE3 François-Marie Roch-Brault Germain +3:24:12.0
16 C1 Joseph Collomb Corre +3:38:23.7
17 GE1 Perpère Germain +4:07:09.0
Ret F1 Vincenzo Lancia Fiat 9 Clutch
Ret M2 Otto Salzer Mercedes 9
Ret LD1 Arthur Duray Lorraine-Dietrich 8
Ret PL3 Dutemple Panhard 8
Ret M1 Camille Jenatzy Mercedes 7
Ret MB1 Pierron Motobloc 7
Ret DM1 Frederic Dufaux Marchand 7
Ret R2 Henry Farman Renault AK 7
Ret D1 René Hanriot Darracq 6 Engine
Ret LD2 Henri Rougier Lorraine-Dietrich 5
Ret GB1 Louis Rigolly Gobron-Brillié 5
Ret W2 Pryce Harrison Weigel 5
Ret MB2 Page Motobloc 5
Ret P1 Emile Stricker Porthos 4 Steering
Ret BC2 Alezy Clément-Bayard 4
Ret WC1 Walter Christie Christie 4
Ret F3 Louis Wagner Fiat 3 Valve gear
Ret W1 Gregor Laxen Weigel 3 Wheel
Ret PL2 Hubert Le Blon Panhard 3 Driver injury
Ret PL1 George Heath Panhard 1 Engine


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1907 French Grand Prix Classification articles: 4
1 1907 Grand Prix season
The 1907 Grand Prix season was the second Grand Prix racing season. It saw a blossoming of circuit events, with the shift from the inter-city races. The popularity of the inaugural French Grand Prix and Targa Florio saw those events held again. The new Kaiserpreis was the first major motor-race held in Germany. This year also saw a number of voiteurette races as the number of specialist small-engine cars grew which gave close, exciting racing very popular with spectators.More
2 1906 French Grand Prix
The 1906 Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France, commonly known as the 1906 French Grand Prix, was a motor race held on 26 and 27 June 1906, on closed public roads outside the city of Le Mans. The Grand Prix was organised by the Automobile Club de France (ACF) at the prompting of the French automobile industry as an alternative to the Gordon Bennett races, which limited each competing country's number of entries regardless of the size of its industry. France had the largest automobile industry in Europe at the time, and in an attempt to better reflect this the Grand Prix had no limit to the number of entries by any particular country. The ACF chose a 103.18-kilometre (64.11 mi) circuit, composed primarily of dust roads sealed with tar, which would be lapped six times on both days by each competitor, a combined race distance of 1,238.16 kilometres (769.36 mi). Lasting for more than 12 hours overall, the race was won by Ferenc Szisz driving for the Renault team. FIAT driver Felice Nazzaro finished second, and Albert Clément was third in a Clément-Bayard.More
3 French Grand Prix
The French Grand Prix, formerly known as the Grand Prix de l'ACF, is an auto race held as part of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile's annual Formula One World Championship. It is one of the oldest motor races in the world as well as the first "Grand Prix". It ceased shortly after its centenary in 2008 with 86 races having been held, due to unfavourable financial circumstances and venues. The race returned to the Formula One calendar in 2018 with Circuit Paul Ricard hosting the race.More
4 1908 French Grand Prix
The 1908 French Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Dieppe on 7 July 1908.More

References

  1. ^ "Grand Prix Winners 1895-1949: History, Grand Prix-, American- & Other Formulae". Retrieved 2014-06-12.
  2. ^ Crooke, Jon (2004-11-15). "Nazzaro, Fiat and Dieppe". Archived from the original on 2008-07-22. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
  3. ^ Higham, Peter (1995). The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. Guinness Publishing. pp. 194–195. ISBN 0-85112-642-1.
  4. ^ "1907 Grand Prix". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2007-10-29.
  5. ^ "Hydro Retro, Clement-Bayard, pdf (French) Clément-Bayard, sans peur et sans reproche par Gérard Hartmann" (PDF).