1912 French Grand Prix

GP French 25–26 June 1912 Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France France Dieppe, France Public roads 47.840 76.989 20 956.800 1539.778 David Bruce-Brown Fiat S74 36:32.0 United States Georges Boillot Peugeot France Louis Wagner Fiat France Victor Rigal Sunbeam France The 1912 French Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Dieppe on 25–26 June 1912. thumb|375px|right|Georges Boillot celebrating his win at the 1912 French Grand Prix The Race The race was run over two days with the drivers completing ten laps on each day and their times being aggregated to produce the winner (similar to a modern stage rally). Coupe de l'Auto cars competed alongside Grand Prix cars. The coupe cars were limited to 3-litre engines (183 cubic inches). The only restriction on the Grand Prix cars was that cars must be no wider than 1.75 metres (1.91 yards).Higham Peter The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing Guinness Publishing 1995 194 0-85112-642-1 Riding mechanic Jean Bassignano was killed in a crash on the third lap when his driver Léon Collinet put a wheel off and flipped. 47 cars started the race at 30 second intervals, with Victor Rigal's Sunbeam the first to start. Victor Hémery, driving a Lorraine-Dietrich, was the first to complete a lap, but David Bruce-Brown's Fiat led on time after the first lap and retained the lead overnight, more than two minutes ahead of Georges Boillot's Peugeot. Louis Wagner was third at the halfway stage. During the second day, Bruce-Brown was disqualified for refuelling away from the pits on lap 15, giving Boillot a comfortable victory by over thirteen minutes from Wagner.The Chequered Flag Rendall Ivan 1995 Weidenfeld and Nicolson 0-297-83550-5 66–69 The Sunbeams performed well in the Coupe de l'Auto race, with Rigal finishing in first place, Resta second, and Medinger third. Due to their speed they were also placed in third, fourth, and fifth places in the Grand Prix itself, beating many more powerful machines. Rigal averaged 65.35 m.p.h. (105.2 km/h) over the 956 miles (1540 kilometres), only 3 m.p.h. (5 km/h) less than Boillot in his 7.6-litre Peugeot (464 cubic inches).http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/Museum/Transport/Cars/Sunbeam/Coatalen.htm Sunbeam cars Classification PosNoDriverCarLapsTime/Retired 1 22 France Georges Boillot Peugeot 20 13:58:02.6 2 23 France Louis Wagner Fiat S74 +13:05.8 3 3 France Victor Rigal Sunbeam +40:33.4 4 17 Great Britain Dario Resta Sunbeam +41:49.2 5 52 France Emile Medinger Sunbeam +2:01:38.8 6 50 Belgium Josef Christiaens Excelsior +2:25:36.2 7 20 France René Croquet Th. Schneider +3:33:36.6 8 30 France "Anford"/France Pilain Rolland-Pilain +3:51:29.4 9 36 Great Britain Richard Wyse Arrol-Johnston +4:09:16.6 10 40 Belgium Arthur Duray Alcyon +4:30:53.0 11 32 France Paul Vonlatum Vinot-Deguignand +5:07:57.4 12 12 France Dragutin Esser Mathis +5:20:02.4 13 29 France Cyril de Vere Cote +6:59:03.4 14 28 Great Britain James Reid Arrol-Johnston 19 +1 Lap Ret 33 United Kingdom Percy Lambert Vauxhall 18 Radiator Ret 55 Great Britain A. Crossman Arrol-Johnston 17 Radiator Ret 7 France Georges Sizaire Sizaire-Naudin 17 Lost a wheel Ret 14 France Pierre Garcet Calthorpe 16 Engine Ret 27 Page Alcyon 16 Crash Ret 51 Great Britain John Hancock Vauxhall 15 Engine Ret 38 France Thomas Schweitzer Sizaire-Naudin 10 Engine Ret 21 France Eugène Renaux Gregoire 10 Withdrawn Ret 24 France Mario Romano Gregoire 10 Withdrawn Ret 34 France René Hanriot Lorraine-Dietrich 10 Fire Ret 18 France Philippe de Marne Gregoire 8 Steering Ret 4 France Barriaux Alcyon 8 Engine Ret 56 France Lucien Molon Vinot-Deguignand 7 No oil Ret 47 France René Thomas Lion-Peugeot L3 7 Engine Ret 19 France Louis Naudin Sizaire-Naudin 7 Ret 16 France Gustave Caillois Sunbeam 7 Engine Ret 45 Italy 1861 Paul Zuccarelli Peugeot L-76 7 Ignition Ret 31 France Paul Bablot Lorraine-Dietrich 7 Engine Ret 25 GBR Frank Rollason Singer 6 Engine Ret 39 GBR Bramwell Heywood Singer 5 Crash Ret 26 United Kingdom L G Hornsted Calthorpe 5 Gearbox Ret 9 France René Champoiseau Th. Schneider 4 Ret 8 France Léon Molon Vinot-Deguignand 3 No oil Ret 54 GBR William Watson Vauxhall 2 Engine Ret 10 France Léon Collinet Gregoire 2 Crash Ret 41 France Fernand Gabriel Cote 1 Universal joint Ret 57 Stefan Heim Lorraine-Dietrich 1 Engine Ret 11 France Victor Hémery Lorraine-Dietrich 1 Engine Ret 49 France Albert Guyot Rolland-Pilain 1 Engine DQ 37 United States 1912 David Bruce-Brown Fiat S74 15 Refuelling away from pits DQ 42 United States 1912 Ralph DePalma Fiat S74 7 Work away from pits DQ 13 France Jules Goux Peugeot L-76 3 Refuelling away from pits DQ 43 GBR Fred Burgess Calthorpe 1 Too slow French Grand Prix 1912 None None 1908 French Grand Prix 1913 French Grand Prix References Category:French Grand Prix French Grand Prix Category:June 1912 sports events in Europe