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    Victor Théodore Eugène Hémery (18 November 1876 – 9 September 1950) was a French racing driver. He was the winner of the Vanderbilt Cup in 1905. Hémery...
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    Bennett Internal combustion 104.53 168.22 December 30, 1905 Arles, France Victor Hémery Darracq Special Internal combustion 109.59 176.37 January 26, 1906 Daytona...
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    255 km (118.251 km x 5 laps) in the vicinity of Bastogne. The winner is Victor Hémery (France) driving a Darracq 80 hp in a time of 5:58:32. Vanderbilt Cup...
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  • created seven new champions (1902–1908), and revised others. He named Victor Hémery the champion for 1905, the winner of that year's Vanderbilt Cup; it...
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    for Fiat, Szisz finished fifth behind the winner, fellow Frenchman Victor Hémery driving a Darracq. Szisz's primary duties as the head of testing at...
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    American collector. At Brooklands on 9 November 1909, land speed racer Victor Hémery of France set a record with an average speed of 202.7 kilometres per...
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  • field athlete Gabriel Hemery (born 1968), English forest scientist Thony Hemery (born 1972), French freestyle skier Victor Hémery (1876–1950), French racecar...
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  • Panhard 5 September Coppa Brescia Vincenzo Lancia Fiat 8 October Vanderbilt Cup George Heath Panhard 23 October Bahrenfeld race Victor Hémery Opel-Darracq...
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  • Grand Prix des Vieux Tacots (The Old Crocks’ Grand Prix). Only FIAT (Victor Hémery) and Rolland-Pilain (3 cars, led by Fernand Gabriel) brought works cars...
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    (1312ci), 150 kW (200 hp) engine, and on 9 November 1909 in the hands of Victor Hémery of France, the land speed racer at Brooklands, set a record of 226.91 km/h...
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    Report 1904 George Heath Panhard Nassau County, New York report 1905 Victor Hémery Darracq Nassau County, New York report 1906 Louis Wagner Darracq Nassau...
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  • 1914) 1874 – Clarence Day, American author and poet (d. 1935) 1876 – Victor Hémery, French racing driver (d. 1950) 1880 – Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect...
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    would occupy it until 1918. Although Fiat did achieve some success - Victor Hémery won the 1911 Grand Prix of France on a Fiat touring car - it had to...
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    problems. The race came down to a three-way battle between the Benz of Victor Hémery and the Fiats of Louis Wagner and Felice Nazzaro. Wagner won the race...
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  • began at 9 AM, with cars leaving the start line at 30-second intervals. Victor Hémery, driving a Benz, led early. Arthur Chevrolet was second after lap 1...
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    lead driver, the Hungarian Ferenc Szisz, started next, and behind him Victor Hémery of Darracq, Paul Baras of Brasier, Camille Jenatzy of Mercedes, Louis...
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  • 1863) 1945 – Max Ehrmann, American poet and lawyer (b. 1872) 1950 – Victor Hémery, French racing driver (b. 1876) 1955 – Carl Friedberg, German pianist...
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    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...
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  • sent their drivers Felice Nazzaro and Louis Wagner for the former and Victor Hémery for the latter. They also got top American drivers for their other cars:...
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    Campobello, founder of the Mexican ballet, in Villa Ocampo (d. 1986) Victor Hémery of France became the first person to drive an automobile faster than...
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    Harry Harkness (1902), Barney Oldfield (1903), George Heath (1904), Victor Hémery (1905), Joe Tracy (1906), Eddie Bald (1907), and Lewis Strang (1908)...
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    speed record from 1909 to 1922, with various drivers starting with Victor Hémery in November, 1909 at Brooklands. Sources: The AIACR (forerunner of the...
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  • 6h51m37.4 Ret 20 Paul Bablot Brasier 105 hp 5 Ret 2 Victor Hémery Darracq 120 hp 2 Ret 18 Victor Demogeot Darracq 120 hp 2 Ret 10 Alexander Burton Mercedes...
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    Christian Lautenschlager Mercedes DNA 19 Meo Costantini Bianchi 18 DNA 25 Victor Hémery Rolland-Pilain A22 DNA 26 Kenelm Lee Guinness Sunbeam DNA 27 Pierre...
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    the first specialized land speed racers, and on December 30, 1905, Victor Hémery drove this car to a speed of 109.65 mph (176.46 km/h) in the flying...
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    Bugatti 32 12 Retired Ret 1 René Thomas Delage 2LCV 8 Fuel tank Ret 13 Victor Hémery Rolland-Pilain 7 Oil pump Ret 4 Pietro Bordino Fiat 805/405 7 Engine...
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  • 1916. All races running on Dirt Oval.   Non-championship race In 1951, Victor Hémery, winner of the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup, was retroactively awarded a national...
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  • won the race in his Mercedes finishing nearly nine minutes ahead of Victor Hémery's Benz. Lautenschlager's average speed for the race was 69.045 mph (111...
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  • Clément-Bayard +47:44.0 9 BC3 Elliott Shepard Clément-Bayard +53:23.2 10 M3 Victor Hémery Mercedes +1:38:52.0 11 MB3 Courtade Motobloc +2:02:00.6 12 B3 Paul Bablot...
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    with André Lefèbvre. Rolland-Pilain had two cars for Albert Guyot and Victor Hémery. Finally, Delage had just the single car for René Thomas. From Italy...
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