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...
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taking morphine for the pain. Nice entered her first Women's Grand Prix motor racing event in June 1929 (the Grand Prix Féminin), racing against Aniela...
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The first race there, the 1925 French Grand Prix, was held on 26 July 1925 and organised by The Automobile Club de France. It was a race in which Robert...
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The 1935 Grand Prix season was the second year of the new 750 kg Formula. The success of the previous year encouraged the AIACR to reinitiate the European...
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Philippe, Baron de Rothschild (13 April 1902 – 20 January 1988) was a member of the Rothschild banking family who became a Grand Prix motor racing driver...
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Philippe Étancelin (category Grand Prix drivers)
Picardy Grand Prix at Peronne. In 1933, Étancelin's Alfa narrowly lost the 19th annual French Grand Prix (organized by the French Automobile Club at the...
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René Dreyfus (category Grand Prix drivers)
and 1940s. Dreyfus was born and raised in Nice to a Jewish family. He showed an early interest in automobiles, learning to drive before the age of nine...
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French luxury automobile and racecar company founded in 1905 by Louis Delâge in Levallois-Perret near Paris; it was acquired by Delahaye in 1935 and ceased...
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Louis Chiron (category Grand Prix drivers)
1933 Monaco Grand Prix – 1931 Moroccan Grand Prix– 1934 Grand Prix du Comminges – 1947 Grand Prix de Marseilles – 1933 Grand Prix de Nice – 1932 Spa 24...
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Bugatti Type 57 (category Bugatti automobiles)
"Histoires de Bugatti - Page : 4 - Histoires du sport automobile - FORUM Sport Auto". Forum-auto.caradisiac.com. Retrieved 9 August 2019. "Restored 1935 Bugatti...
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The Pau Grand Prix (French: Grand Prix de Pau) is an annual championship automobile road event for single seater racing cars organised by the L'Automobile...
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Rallye, to start from Valencia, Portugal. Finally, in 1935, Emile Scordel was seen at the Grand-Prix de Lorraine - Seichamps, and won in the 1500 cc sport...
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Lucy O'Reilly Schell (category Grand Prix drivers)
1932 Grand Prix de La Baule in an Alfa Romeo 6C 1750. 1934 Coupe des dames in the 1934 Paris-Nice Critérium 1935 Coupe des dames in the 1935 Paris-Nice Critérium...
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mayor of Barcelona in 1935. The Autòdrom had an Honorary Committee chaired by the Duke of Alba, then president of the Royal Automobile Club of Spain. The...
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Peugeot (redirect from Peugeot (automobile))
/ˈpɜːʒoʊ/ , US: /p(j)uːˈʒoʊ/ , French: [pøʒo] ) is a French brand of automobiles owned by Stellantis. The family business that preceded the current Peugeot...
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Charles Montier (section Grand Prix)
Grand Prix Season – 1934 Coppa Chiano, 1934 Belgian Grand Prix (Grand Prix de Belgique), 1934 Coppa Acerbo, 1934 Nizza Grand Prix (Grand Prix de Nice)"...
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The 1936 Grand Prix season was the third year of the 750 kg Formula. The next iteration of the Mercedes-Benz did not prove successful and the team withdrew...
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Anne-Cécile Itier (section Grand Prix)
Monte Carlo Rally. In 1935, with Jacques Delorme, Germaine Rouault and Hellé Nice, she founded the U.S.A. (Union sportive automobile), which soon became...
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Monte Carlo Rally. In 1935, with Jacques Delorme, Anne-Cécile Itier and Hellé Nice, she founded the U.S.A. (Union sportive automobile), as association of...
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Tazio Nuvolari (category Grand Prix drivers)
He first raced motorcycles and then concentrated on sports cars and Grand Prix racing. Originally of Mantua, he was nicknamed il Mantovano Volante ("the...
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1934 Grand Prix season Previous 1933 Next 1935 The 1934 Grand Prix season saw the advent of the new 750 kg Formula. In an effort to curb the danger of...
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French Riviera (section Nice and Alpes-Maritimes)
Monaco: Formula One Grand Prix race, May Grasse; Rose Festival, May Cannes: Cannes Film Festival and Cannes Film Market, May Nice: Jazz Festival, July...
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Delahaye (category Companies based in Centre-Val de Loire)
his automobiles in the 1896 Paris–Marseille–Paris race, and the 1897 Paris–Dieppe race, followed in 1898 by the Marseilles–Nice rally, the Course de Périgeux...
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The 1932 Grand Prix season marked the second year of the AIACR European Championship. It saw the debut of Alfa Romeo's sensational new Tipo B (also called...
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Ferdinand Montier (section Grand Prix)
1933 Swedish Grand Prix (Sveriges Sommar Grand Prix), 1933 Nice Grand Prix (Grand Prix de Nice)". V Grand Prix de Dieppe. Archived from the original on 2021-01-19...
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Guy Moll (category Grand Prix drivers)
World of Automobiles (London: Orbis, 1974), Volume 12, p.1382. Kettlewell, p.1382. "1934 Monaco Grand Prix". The Golden Age of Grand Prix Racing. Archived...
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Jean-Pierre Wimille (category Grand Prix drivers)
Hill climb Nice - La Turbie [fr] - Bugatti Type 54 [fr] Grand Prix de Lorraine - Alfa Romeo 8C Grand Prix d'Oran - Alfa Romeo 8C 1934: Grand Prix of Algeria...
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Louis II, Prince of Monaco (category Grand Masters of the Order of Saint-Charles)
the Monaco Football Club was formed and in 1929, the first Grand Prix of Monaco automobile race was held, won by William Grover-Williams, driving a Bugatti...
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It was started by Alcyon, a French bicycle, automobile and motorcycle manufacturer. The team won the Tour de France four times before World War I with François...
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Sebring 12-Hour Grand Prix – Race Profile". Sports Car Digest. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 2015-09-14. "1957 Mille Miglia". The Carel Godin de Beaufort Tribute...
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