1912 French Grand Prix at Dieppe

Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France
Date 25-26 June 1912
Dieppe, France
Public roads
Course length 76.989 km (47.840 mi)
Distance 20 laps, 1539.778 km (956.800 mi)

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. 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.


Poster


Track

Pos No Driver Car Laps Time/Retired 1 22  Georges Boillot Peugeot 20 13:58:02.6 2 23 Louis Wagner Fiat S74 20 +13:05.8 3 3 Victor Rigal Sunbeam 20 +40:33.4 4 17 Dario Resta Sunbeam 20 +41:49.2 5 52 Emile Medinger Sunbeam 20 +2:01:38.8 6 50 Joseph Christiaens Excelsior 20 +2:25:36.2 7 20 René Croquet Th. Schneider 20 +3:33:36.6 8 30 "Anford"/Pilain Rolland-Pilain 20 +3:51:29.4 9 36 Richard Wyse Arrol-Johnston 20 +4:09:16.6 10 40 Arthur Duray Alcyon 20 +4:30:53.0 11 32 Paul Vonlatum Vinot-Deguignand 20 +5:07:57.4 12 12 Dragutin Esser Mathis 20 +5:20:02.4 13 29 Cyril de Vere Cote 20 +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51 John Hancock Vauxhall 15 Engine Ret 38 Thomas Schweitzer Sizaire-Naudin 10 Engine Ret 21 Eugène Renaux Gregoire 10 Withdrawn Ret 24 Mario Romano Gregoire 10 Withdrawn Ret 34 René Hanriot Lorraine-Dietrich 10 Fire Ret 18 Philippe de Marne Gregoire 8 Steering Ret 4 Barriaux Alcyon 8 Engine Ret 56 Lucien Molon Vinot-Deguignand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 unknown 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 unknown 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

The Winner: Georges Boillot after the race


The Trophy


Grandstand


Celebration in Paris of Georges Boillot


Celebration of Sunbeam

Some missing pics:
#4


#9


#20


#28


#32


#36


#39


#41


#56


I will scan #25 and #33 tomorrow (along with some better versions of the above)

Fantastic Stuff! Thank you, TMT

Goodwood95 wrote: Fantastic Stuff! Thank you, TMT

You are most welcome Goodwood!

Missing cars:

#25


#33


Winner Boillot @ the finish


Some new pics and better scans of some of the cars I uploaded yesterday!

1912 Grand Prix de l'A.C.F - Dieppe Part 1

               
#03 Victor Rigal Sunbeam


#08 Léon Molon  Vinot-deguignand


#11 Victor Hemery Lorraine-dietrich


#16 Gustave Caillois Sunbeam

       
#17 Dario Resta Sunbeam

                           
#22 George Boillot Peugeot L7

   
#23 Louis Wagner sur FIAT

1912 Grand Prix de l'A.C.F - Dieppe Part 2


#29 Cyril De Vere  Cote

       
#30 Anford Rolland-Pilain


#34 René Hanriot Lorraine-dietrich

                               
#37 David Bruce-Brown Fiat S74


#38 Thomas Schweitzer Sizaire-Naudin

1912 Grand Prix de l'A.C.F - Dieppe Part 3

   
#42 Ralph de Palma Fiat S74


#45 Paul Zuccarelli  Peugeot

       
#47 René Thomas Lion-Peugeot


#50 Joseph Christiaens  Excelsior


#51 John Hancock Vauxhall

       
#52 Émile Medinger Sunbeam


#54 William Watson Vauxhall


L'écho des Sports (Numéro spécial)

Beautitful photos!
Thank you, elmimidu69!