1906 French Grand Prix
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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
Léon Théry, the winner of the 1904 and 1905 Gordon Bennett races, in his 1904 Richard-Brasier
Renault driver Ferenc Szisz, the winner of the Grand Prix, leads the Hotchkiss of Elliott Shepard
Edmond in his Renault before the race. He retired after melting tar from the road surface seeped past his goggles and into his eyes.
Ferenc Szisz crosses the finish line at the end of the race
French Grand Prix
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The French Grand Prix, formerly known as the Grand Prix de l'ACF, was an auto race held as part of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile's annual Formula One World Championship. It was one of
1906 French Grand Prix
…again the following year, and the German automobile industry to organise the Kaiserpreis, the forerunner to the German Grand Prix, in 1907. The first French Grand Prix originated from the Gordon Bennett races, established by American millionaire James Gordon Bennett, Jr. in 1900. Intended to encourage automobile…
Georges Boillot winning the 1912 French Grand Prix in Dieppe, France