{"id":38506,"date":"2012-08-29T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/index.php\/?p=38506"},"modified":"2015-11-24T12:21:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T17:21:58","slug":"the-grand-prix-of-tours-part-6-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/the-grand-prix-of-tours-part-6-the-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Prix of Tours Part 6: The Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 1923 Grand Prix of Tours <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Friderich refuels his Bugatti T32 during the 1923 Tours Grand Prix. He would finish third; ironically neither the Bugatti \u201cTanks\u201d nor the Voisin \u201cLaboratoire\u201d would ever race again.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Gijsbert-Paul Berk<\/strong><\/p>\n

July 2, 1923, 8 a.m. For the start of the Grand Prix, seventeen race cars were placed in two rows. In 1923 the positions on the starting grid did not depend on lap times during practice but were, like the numbers on the cars, allotted by the organizers. Hence, pole position was taken by the V12 Delage (No. 1) with driver Ren\u00e9 Thomas and his mechanic Lhermit. Alongside was Guiness in the Sunbeam, car number 2. Guyot\u2019s Rolland-Pilain was in the second row next to number 4, the Fiat of Bordino.<\/p>\n

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The noise and smell of the seventeen racing cars on the grid, with a total of 126 screaming cylinders, must have been similar to the noise and excitement of today\u2019s Grand Prix starts. The pace car, driven by local motorcycle champion Paul Meunier, led the field before Ren\u00e9 Thomas in his blue Delage sprinted away with the Sunbeam of Lee Guinness. Above, Thomas and Bordino are already out of this photograph of the start. <\/strong> Number 2 is the Sunbeam of Lee Guiness, number 3 is Guyot in the Rolland-Pilain, the Voisin of Arthur Duray and the Friderich Bugatti, number 6.<\/p>\n

At the end of lap one, Fiat of Pietro Bordino was in front; the Sunbeam of Lee Guiness second followed by the Delage of Ren\u00e9 Thomas; then Enrico Giaccone and Carlo Salamano both in the Fiats, Henry Segrave and Albert Divo in Sunbeams, Albert Guyot driving a Rolland-Pilain and Ernest Friderich the Bugatti. The race of the decade was on.<\/p>\n

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The 1923 Grand Prix of Tours Friderich refuels his Bugatti T32 during the 1923 Tours Grand Prix. He would finish third; ironically neither the Bugatti \u201cTanks\u201d nor the Voisin \u201cLaboratoire\u201d would ever race again. By Gijsbert-Paul Berk July 2, 1923, 8 a.m. For the start of the Grand Prix, seventeen race cars were placed in... <\/p>\n

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