Fernand Gabriel
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Fernand Gabriel was a French racing driver.
Gabriel at the 1914 French Grand Prix
1908 Grand Prix de l'ACF, on a Clément-Bayard;
1911 Grand Prix de France, on a Rolland-Pilain;
1912 Grand Prix de l'ACF, on a Côte;
Paris–Madrid race
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The Paris–Madrid race was a city-to-city motor race that began on 24 May 1903. The event was organized by the Automobile Club de France and the Royal Automobile Club of Spain,.
Fernand Gabriel
…and took his first victory kilometre sprints at Deauville and Château-Thierry (near Reims) the following year. His greatest achievement was winning the 1903 Paris-Madrid race, which was stopped at Bordeaux because of the number of fatalities on the primitive French roads. As was usual in town-to-town races, cars left…
Mark Mayhew and riding mechanic Alex Mosses on their Napier L1 at the start. Their race ended in a crash after a steering failure.
Henri Rougier driving his Turcat-Méry 45-hp finished 11th overall, and 9th in the heavy car class
Illustration of the accident that took the lives of Marcel Renault and his mechanic.