Type: | GP |
Grand Prix: | French |
Date: | 12 July |
Year: | 1913 |
Official Name: | Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France |
Country: | France |
Location: | Amiens, France |
Course: | Public roads |
Course Mi: | 19.650 |
Course Km: | 31.62 |
Distance Laps: | 29 |
Distance Mi: | 569.850 |
Distance Km: | 916.98 |
Fast Driver: | Paul Bablot |
Fast Team: | Delage |
Fast Time: | 15:22.0 |
Fast Country: | France |
First Driver: | Georges Boillot |
First Team: | Peugeot |
First Country: | France |
Second Driver: | Jules Goux |
Second Team: | Peugeot |
Second Country: | France |
Third Driver: | Jean Chassagne |
Third Team: | Sunbeam |
Third Country: | France |
The 1913 French Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Amiens on 12 July 1913.
The restriction on Grand Prix cars for 1913 included an 8000NaN0 minimum weight and an 11000NaN0 maximum weight, as well as a 14mpgimp fuel consumption limit.[1] The buildup to the race and the race itself were marred by three fatal crashes. Bigio was killed testing his Itala before the race. In a separate incident before the race, Paul Zuccarelli was killed when his Peugeot crashed into a cart, and a spectator was killed when Kenelm Lee Guinness's Sunbeam crashed into a river. This made Amiens's fatality tally rise to 5 in the span of less than two months- 2 other people had been killed while testing on the roads being used for the circuit in May. After this race, this circuit- which included an 8-mile (13 km) long straight (which is now known as the D934)- was never used again for motor racing.[2]
Georges Boillot won for the second year in succession, at an average speed of 72.141 mph (116.096 km/h). The fastest lap was set by Paul Bablot, at an average speed of 76.718 mph (123.462 km/h).[3]
Pos | No | Driver | Car | Laps | Time/Retired | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 8 | Georges Boillot | Peugeot EX3 | 29 | 7:53:56.8 | |
2 | 14 | Jules Goux | Peugeot EX3 | +2:25.6 | ||
3 | 15 | Jean Chassagne | Sunbeam | +12:23.4 | ||
4 | 2 | Paul Bablot | Delage Y | +22:16.8 | ||
5 | 10 | Albert Guyot | Delage Y | +24:02.0 | ||
6 | 9 | Dario Resta | Sunbeam | +27:41.6 | ||
7 | 16 | René Champoiseau | Th. Schneider | +50:40.4 | ||
8 | 5 | Josef Christiaens | Excelsior | +1:03:26.8 | ||
9 | 20 | René Thomas | Th. Schneider | +1:10:15.4 | ||
10 | 6 | René Croquet | Th. Schneider | +1:18:55.8 | ||
11 | 11 | Sigurd Hornsted | Excelsior | +1:43:43.8 | ||
Ret | 19 | Kenelm Lee Guinness | Sunbeam | 15 | Crash | |
Ret | 17 | Antonio Moriondo | Itala | 13 | Spring | |
Ret | 7 | Felice Nazzaro | Itala | 12 | Spring | |
Ret | 4 | Dragutin Esser | Mathis | 8 | Valve | |
Ret | 1 | Gustave Caillois | Sunbeam | 4 | Radius rod | |
Ret | 12 | Fernand Gabriel | Th. Schneider | 3 | Carburettor | |
Ret | 3 | Carl Jörns | Opel | 1 | Engine | |
Ret | 18 | Delpierre | Peugeot EX3 | 1 | Crash | |
Ret | 13 | H. Pope | Itala | 1 | Engine |
. Peter Higham--> . The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing . Guinness Publishing . 1995 . 194–196 . 0-85112-642-1.