The 1912 French Grand Prix was a Grand Prix

Grand Prix motor racing

Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894. It quickly evolved from a simple road race from one town to the next, to endurance tests for car and driver...

 motor race held at Dieppe

Dieppe, Seine-Maritime

Dieppe is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in France. In 1999, the population of the whole Dieppe urban area was 81,419.A port on the English Channel, famous for its scallops, and with a regular ferry service from the Gare Maritime to Newhaven in England, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled...

 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). Coupé

Coupé

A coupé or coupe is a closed car body style , the precise definition of which varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, and over time...

 cars competed alongside Grand Prix cars. The coupé 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

Victor Hémery

Victor Hémery was a champion driver of early Grand Prix motor racing who was born in Sillé-le-Guillaume, France, Sarthe, France. In 1904 he joined Automobiles Darracq S.A. as their chief tester and helped prepare cars to compete in that year's Gordon Bennett Cup...

, driving a Lorraine-Dietrich

Lorraine-Dietrich

Lorraine-Dietrich was a French automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer from 1896 until 1935, created when railway locomotive manufacturer Société Lorraine des Anciens Etablissments de Dietrich and Cie branched into the manufacture of automobiles...

 held the lead after the first lap. David Bruce-Brown's

David L. Bruce-Brown

David Loney Bruce-Brown was an American racecar driver. Having bluffed his way into auto racing at the age of 18, he turned out to be a natural talent behind the wheel and won the 1908 Daytona Speed Trials. He then went on to win the American Grand Prize in both 1910 and 1911 as well as numerous...

 Fiat

Fiat

FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...

 subsequently took the lead and retained it overnight, more than two minutes ahead of Georges Boillot

Georges Boillot

Georges Louis Frederic Boillot was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver and World War I fighter pilot.-Biography:...

's Peugeot

Peugeot

Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe.The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion...

. Louis Wagner

Louis Wagner

Louis Wagner was a French race car driver who won the first ever United States and British Grands Prix. Wagner was also a pioneer aviator.Wagner was born in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, Seine-Saint-Denis...

 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.

Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Car	Laps	Time/Retired
1	22	Georges Boillot Georges Boillot Georges Louis Frederic Boillot was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver and World War I fighter pilot.-Biography:...	Peugeot Peugeot Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe.The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion...	20	13:58:02.6
2	23	Louis Wagner Louis Wagner Louis Wagner was a French race car driver who won the first ever United States and British Grands Prix. Wagner was also a pioneer aviator.Wagner was born in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, Seine-Saint-Denis...	Fiat S74 Fiat S74 In the early 1900s Fiat was heavily involved in racing to promote the reliability and mechanical fortitude of their brand, It was not uncommon for the early four-cylinder engines to displace over ten liters; many reaching into the 20-liter range. For Fiat, they too found provenance in expanding...		+13:05.8
3	3	Victor Rigal	Sunbeam		+40:33.4
4	17	Dario Resta Dario Resta Dario Resta , nicknamed "Dolly", was an Italian Briton race car driver. Raised in England from the age of two, he began racing there starting in 1907. He took part in the Montagu Cup the very first race of the now historic Brooklands track. He set a record of in a half-mile run a few years later...	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 Rolland-Pilain Rolland-Pilain was a French car maker founded 1905 in Tours by François Rolland and Emile Pilain.The Rolland-Pilain cars pioneered many innovative solutions despite very limited financial resources. One such feature was hydraulic brakes...		+3:51:29.4
9	36	Richard Wyse	Arrol-Johnston Arrol-Johnston Arrol-Johnston was an early Scottish manufacturer of automobiles, which operated from 1896 to 1931 and produced the first automobile manufactured in Britain...		+4:09:16.6
10	40	Arthur Duray Arthur Duray Arthur Duray was born in New York City of Belgian parents and later became a French citizen. An early aviator, he held Belgian license #3. He is probably best known today for breaking the land speed record on three separate occasions between July, 1903 and March, 1904...	Alcyon Alcyon The Alcyon was a French bicycle, automobile and motorcycle manufacturer between 1890 and 1957.- Origins :Alcyon originated from about 1890 when Edmond Gentil started the manufacture of bicycles in Neuilly, Seine. In 1902, this was complemented by motorcycle production and in 1906, the first cars...		+4:30:53.0
11	32	Paul Vonlatum	Vinot-Deguignand		+5:07:57.4
12	12	Dragutin Esser Dragutin Esser Dragutin Esser was a race car driver, driving cars designed or built by Émile Mathis.The production cars of Mathis driven by Dragutin Esser or by Emile Mathis achieved numerous successes in the touring classes:...	Mathis		+5:20:02.4
13	29	Cyril de Vere	Cote		+6:59:03.4
14	28	James Reid	Arrol-Johnston Arrol-Johnston Arrol-Johnston was an early Scottish manufacturer of automobiles, which operated from 1896 to 1931 and produced the first automobile manufactured in Britain...	19	+1 Lap
Ret	33	Percy Lambert Percy E. Lambert Percy Edgar Lambert was the first person to drive an automobile a hundred miles in an hour.-World record:The record was set at Brooklands on 15 February 1913 when driving his 4.5 litre sidevalve Talbot. He actually covered 103 miles and 1470 yards in sixty minutes...	Vauxhall Vauxhall Motors Vauxhall Motors is a British automotive company owned by General Motors and headquartered in Luton. It was founded in 1857 as a pump and marine engine manufacturer, began manufacturing cars in 1903 and was acquired by GM in 1925. It has been the second-largest selling car brand in the UK for...	18	Radiator
Ret	55	A. Crossman	Arrol-Johnston Arrol-Johnston Arrol-Johnston was an early Scottish manufacturer of automobiles, which operated from 1896 to 1931 and produced the first automobile manufactured in Britain...	17	Radiator
Ret	7	Georges Sizaire	Sizaire-Naudin Sizaire-Naudin Sizaire Frères et Naudin was a French automobile manufacturer based in Paris between 1905 and 1921.Sizaire-Naudin was founded by Maurice and Georges Sizaire and Louis Naudin in around 1900. The company was registered in 1903...	17	Lost a wheel
Ret	14	Pierre Garcet	Calthorpe Calthorpe cars The Calthorpe Motor Company based in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, England made a range of cars, motorcycles and bicycles from 1904 to 1932.-Formation:...	16	Engine
Ret	27	Page	Alcyon Alcyon The Alcyon was a French bicycle, automobile and motorcycle manufacturer between 1890 and 1957.- Origins :Alcyon originated from about 1890 when Edmond Gentil started the manufacture of bicycles in Neuilly, Seine. In 1902, this was complemented by motorcycle production and in 1906, the first cars...	16	Crash
Ret	51	John Hancock	Vauxhall Vauxhall Motors Vauxhall Motors is a British automotive company owned by General Motors and headquartered in Luton. It was founded in 1857 as a pump and marine engine manufacturer, began manufacturing cars in 1903 and was acquired by GM in 1925. It has been the second-largest selling car brand in the UK for...	15	Engine
Ret	38	Thomas Schweitzer	Sizaire-Naudin Sizaire-Naudin Sizaire Frères et Naudin was a French automobile manufacturer based in Paris between 1905 and 1921.Sizaire-Naudin was founded by Maurice and Georges Sizaire and Louis Naudin in around 1900. The company was registered in 1903...	10	Engine
Ret	21	Eugène Renaux	Gregoire Grégoire -Gregoire as a surname:*Alexandre Grégoire , Haitian painter*Christine Gregoire , American Democratic governor of the state of Washington*Christophe Grégoire , Belgian footballer...	10	Withdrawn
Ret	24	Mario Romano	Gregoire Grégoire -Gregoire as a surname:*Alexandre Grégoire , Haitian painter*Christine Gregoire , American Democratic governor of the state of Washington*Christophe Grégoire , Belgian footballer...	10	Withdrawn
Ret	34	René Hanriot	Lorraine-Dietrich Lorraine-Dietrich Lorraine-Dietrich was a French automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer from 1896 until 1935, created when railway locomotive manufacturer Société Lorraine des Anciens Etablissments de Dietrich and Cie branched into the manufacture of automobiles...	10	Fire
Ret	18	Philippe de Marne	Gregoire Grégoire -Gregoire as a surname:*Alexandre Grégoire , Haitian painter*Christine Gregoire , American Democratic governor of the state of Washington*Christophe Grégoire , Belgian footballer...	8	Steering
Ret	4	Barriaux	Alcyon Alcyon The Alcyon was a French bicycle, automobile and motorcycle manufacturer between 1890 and 1957.- Origins :Alcyon originated from about 1890 when Edmond Gentil started the manufacture of bicycles in Neuilly, Seine. In 1902, this was complemented by motorcycle production and in 1906, the first cars...	8	Engine
Ret	56	Lucien Molon	Vinot-Deguignand	7	No oil
Ret	47	René Thomas René Thomas (guitarist) René Thomas is considered one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 1960s, but has remained rather unknown to the general public. After the Second World War, he played with the "Bop Shots", Belgium's first be-bop outfit with Jacques Pelzer and Bobby Jaspar...	Lion-Peugeot Lion-Peugeot Lion-Peugeot is a formerly independent French auto-maker. It is the name under which in 1906 Robert Peugeot and his two brothers, independently of the established Peugeot car business, began to produce automobiles at Beaulieu near Valentigney.... L3	7	Engine
Ret	19	Louis Naudin	Sizaire-Naudin Sizaire-Naudin Sizaire Frères et Naudin was a French automobile manufacturer based in Paris between 1905 and 1921.Sizaire-Naudin was founded by Maurice and Georges Sizaire and Louis Naudin in around 1900. The company was registered in 1903...	7
Ret	16	Gustave Caillois	Sunbeam	7	Engine
Ret	45	Paul Zuccarelli Paul Zuccarelli Paul Zuccarelli was an Italian racecar driver. Zuccarelli was killed while testing a car prior to the 1913 French Grand Prix at Amiens.-Indy 500 results:...	Peugeot Peugeot Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe.The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion...  L-76	7	Ignition
Ret	31	Paul Bablot Paul Bablot Paul Bablot was a French racecar driver. He also owned an early French-built Wright-model airplane....	Lorraine-Dietrich Lorraine-Dietrich Lorraine-Dietrich was a French automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer from 1896 until 1935, created when railway locomotive manufacturer Société Lorraine des Anciens Etablissments de Dietrich and Cie branched into the manufacture of automobiles...	7	Engine
Ret	25	Frank Rollason	Singer Singer (car) Singer was an automobile company founded in 1905 in Coventry, England. It was acquired by the Rootes Group of the United Kingdom in 1956, who continued the brand until 1970...	6	Engine
Ret	39	Bramwell Heywood	Singer Singer (car) Singer was an automobile company founded in 1905 in Coventry, England. It was acquired by the Rootes Group of the United Kingdom in 1956, who continued the brand until 1970...	5	Crash
Ret	26	L G Hornsted	Calthorpe Calthorpe cars The Calthorpe Motor Company based in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, England made a range of cars, motorcycles and bicycles from 1904 to 1932.-Formation:...	5	Gearbox
Ret	9	René Champoiseau	Th Schneider	4
Ret	8	Léon Molon	Vinot-Deguignand	3	No oil
Ret	54	W. Watson	Vauxhall Vauxhall Motors Vauxhall Motors is a British automotive company owned by General Motors and headquartered in Luton. It was founded in 1857 as a pump and marine engine manufacturer, began manufacturing cars in 1903 and was acquired by GM in 1925. It has been the second-largest selling car brand in the UK for...	2	Engine
Ret	10	Léon Collinet	Gregoire Grégoire -Gregoire as a surname:*Alexandre Grégoire , Haitian painter*Christine Gregoire , American Democratic governor of the state of Washington*Christophe Grégoire , Belgian footballer...	2	Crash
Ret	41	Fernand Gabriel	Cote	1	Universal joint
Ret	57	Stefan Heim	Lorraine-Dietrich Lorraine-Dietrich Lorraine-Dietrich was a French automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer from 1896 until 1935, created when railway locomotive manufacturer Société Lorraine des Anciens Etablissments de Dietrich and Cie branched into the manufacture of automobiles...	1	Engine
Ret	11	Victor Hemery Victor Hémery Victor Hémery was a champion driver of early Grand Prix motor racing who was born in Sillé-le-Guillaume, France, Sarthe, France. In 1904 he joined Automobiles Darracq S.A. as their chief tester and helped prepare cars to compete in that year's Gordon Bennett Cup...	Lorraine-Dietrich Lorraine-Dietrich Lorraine-Dietrich was a French automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer from 1896 until 1935, created when railway locomotive manufacturer Société Lorraine des Anciens Etablissments de Dietrich and Cie branched into the manufacture of automobiles...	1	Engine
Ret	49	Albert Guyot Albert Guyot Albert Guyot was a French racecar driver. He was one of four drivers who entered with Duesenberg the 1921 French Grand Prix, the first in which a US make participated. Jimmy Murphy won with his Duesenberg 183; Guyot finished 6th.-Indy 500 results:...	Rolland-Pilain Rolland-Pilain Rolland-Pilain was a French car maker founded 1905 in Tours by François Rolland and Emile Pilain.The Rolland-Pilain cars pioneered many innovative solutions despite very limited financial resources. One such feature was hydraulic brakes...	1	Engine
DQ	37	David Bruce-Brown David L. Bruce-Brown David Loney Bruce-Brown was an American racecar driver. Having bluffed his way into auto racing at the age of 18, he turned out to be a natural talent behind the wheel and won the 1908 Daytona Speed Trials. He then went on to win the American Grand Prize in both 1910 and 1911 as well as numerous...	Fiat Fiat FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...  S74	15	Refuelling away from pits
DQ	42	Ralph De Palma	Fiat Fiat FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...  S74	7	Work away from pits
DQ	13	Jules Goux Jules Goux Jules Goux, born Valentigney 6 April 1885 - died Valentigney 6 March 1965, was a Grand Prix motor racing champion and the first Frenchman, and the first European, to win the Indianapolis 500.-Biography:...	Peugeot Peugeot Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe.The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion...  L-76	3	Refuelling away from pits
DQ	43	Fred Burgess	Calthorpe Calthorpe cars The Calthorpe Motor Company based in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, England made a range of cars, motorcycles and bicycles from 1904 to 1932.-Formation:...	1	Too slow