1912 French Grand Prix
| 1912 French Grand Prix | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race details | |||
| Date | June 25, 1912 | ||
| Official name | Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France | ||
| Location | Dieppe, France | ||
| Course | Public roads | ||
| Course length | 76.989 km (47.840 miles) | ||
| Distance | 20 laps, 1539.778 km (956.800 miles) | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 David Bruce-Brown | Fiat S74 | |
| Time | 36:32.0 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Peugeot | ||
| Second | Fiat | ||
| Third | Sunbeam | ||
The 1912 French Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Dieppe on 25–26 June 1912.
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 rally race). Coupe de l'Auto cars competed alongside Grand Prix cars. The coupe cars were limited to 3 litre engines. The only restriction on the Grand Prix cars was a minimum width of 1750 millimetres.[1] Riding mechanic Jean Bassignano was killed in a lap 3 crash 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 Hemery, driving a Lorraine-Dietrich held the lead after the first lap. David Bruce-Brown's Fiat subsequently took the lead and retained it 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.[2]
Classification
| Pos | No | Driver | Car | Laps | Time/Retired |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 |  Georges Boillot
|
Peugeot | 20 | 13:58:02.6 |
| 2 | 23 | Louis Wagner
|
Fiat S74 | +13:05.8 | |
| 3 | 3 | Victor Rigal
|
Sunbeam | +40:33.4 | |
| 4 | 17 |  Dario Resta
|
Sunbeam | +41:49.2 | |
| 5 | 52 | Emile Medinger
|
Sunbeam | +2:01:38.8 | |
| 6 | 50 |  Joseph Christiaens
|
Sunbeam | +2:25:36.2 | |
| 7 | 20 | René Croquet
|
Th Schneider | +3:33:36.6 | |
| 8 | 30 | "Anford"/Pilain | Rolland-Pilain | +3:51:29.4 | |
| 9 | 36 | Richard Wyse | Arrol-Johnston | +4:09:16.6 | |
| 10 | 40 | Arthur Duray
|
Alcyon | +4:30:53.0 | |
| 11 | 32 | Paul Vonlatum | Vinot-Deguignand | +5:07:57.4 | |
| 12 | 12 | Dragutin Esser
|
Mathis | +5:20:02.4 | |
| 13 | 29 | Cyril de Vere
|
Cote | +6:59:03.4 | |
| 14 | 28 | James Reid | Arrol-Johnston | 19 | +1 Lap |
| Ret | 33 | Percy Lambert
|
Vauxhall | 18 | Radiator |
| Ret | 55 | A. Crossman | Arrol-Johnston | 17 | Radiator |
| Ret | 7 | Georges Sizaire
|
Sizaire-Naudin | 17 | Lost a wheel |
| Ret | 14 | Pierre Garcet
|
Calthorpe | 16 | Engine |
| Ret | 27 | Page | Alcyon | 16 | Crash |
| Ret | 51 | John Hancock | Vauxhall | 15 | Engine |
| Ret | 38 | Thomas Schweitzer | Sizaire-Naudin | 10 | Engine |
| Ret | 21 | Eugène Renaux
|
Gregoire | 10 | Withdrawn |
| Ret | 24 | Mario Romano | Gregoire | 10 | Withdrawn |
| Ret | 34 | René Hanriot
|
Lorraine-Dietrich | 10 | Fire |
| Ret | 18 | Philippe de Marne
|
Gregoire | 8 | Steering |
| Ret | 4 | Barriaux | Alcyon | 8 | Engine |
| Ret | 56 | Lucien Molon
|
Vinot-Deguignand | 7 | No oil |
| Ret | 47 | René Thomas
|
Lion-Peugeot L3 | 7 | Engine |
| Ret | 19 | Louis Naudin
|
Sizaire-Naudin | 7 | |
| Ret | 16 | Gustave Caillois
|
Sunbeam | 7 | Engine |
| Ret | 45 |  Paul Zuccarelli
|
Peugeot L-76 | 7 | Ignition |
| Ret | 31 | Paul Bablot
|
Lorraine-Dietrich | 7 | Engine |
| Ret | 25 | Frank Rollason | Singer | 6 | Engine |
| Ret | 39 | Bramwell Heywood
|
Singer | 5 | Crash |
| Ret | 26 | L G Hornsted
|
Calthorpe | 5 | Gearbox |
| Ret | 9 | René Champoiseau
|
Th Schneider | 4 | |
| Ret | 8 | Léon Molon
|
Vinot-Deguignand | 3 | No oil |
| Ret | 54 | W. Watson | Vauxhall | 2 | Engine |
| Ret | 10 | Léon Collinet | Gregoire | 2 | Crash |
| Ret | 41 | Fernand Gabriel
|
Cote | 1 | Universal joint |
| Ret | 57 | Stefan Heim | Lorraine-Dietrich | 1 | Engine |
| Ret | 11 | Victor Hemery
|
Lorraine-Dietrich | 1 | Engine |
| Ret | 49 | Albert Guyot
|
Rolland-Pilain | 1 | Engine |
| DQ | 37 |  David Bruce-Brown
|
Fiat S74 | 15 | Refuelling away from pits |
| DQ | 42 | Ralph De Palma
|
Fiat S74 | 7 | Work away from pits |
| DQ | 13 | Jules Goux
|
Peugeot L-76 | 3 | Refuelling away from pits |
| DQ | 43 | Fred Burgess | Calthorpe | 1 | Too slow |
References
- ^ Higham, Peter (1995). The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. Guinness Publishing. p. 194. ISBN 0-85112-642-1.
- ^ Rendall, Ivan (1995). The Chequered Flag. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. pp. 66–69. ISBN 0-297-83550-5.
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