Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-03
ITALIAN WINS
GRAND PRIX IN
CLEVER STYLE
Nazarro First in Big
Auto Race
Lancla and Duray Take Lead in Early
Stages, but Meet with Re-
verses Which Cost Them
Trophy
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
DIEPPE, France. July 2.-With a
wonderful display of GOODNESS, nerve
and endurance Navarro, the italian
champion, today captured the automo-
bile grand prix at an average speed
of 113 kilometers, 600 meters an hour,
breaking the worlds record. The pace
was killing from the start, leaving
score of cars hopelessly beaten before
the second round was ended. The race
was full of surprises. Navarro was not
prominent early in the contest. Lancia
took the first three laps, but when he
broke down at the third and surren-
dered the lead to Duray, the latter,
as he reeled off lap after lap under
forty minutes, looked an easy winner,
but on entering the fourth round a
broken bearing put his car out or
action. and he was forced to retire,
amid the plaudits of the crowd. In
the meantime Navarro, riding like
demon. but cool and steady. over
hauled Lancia, and when Duray
dropped out he continued on unheeded
to the finish.
Szisz came up from the rear and
made gallant effort during the last
two laps to overtake the flying leader.
Run Out of Petrol
Lancias petrol gave out in the final
round, permitting Baras to finish third
The times of the first, second and
third men were as follows:
Navarro 6:4639.
Szisz 6:53:10.
Baras 7:05:53.
Duray made the fastest lap, ~ MIN
utes and so seconds.
Nazarros marvellous driving was
evidenced by the fact that his speed
steadily increased as the race pro
crossed. His tenth lap was the fast
est, 3S minutes, 35 seconds.
Rougier finished fourth, Caillois fifth
Rigal sixth, Barillier seventh, Garcet
eighth and Shepard ninth.
The loges at the Tribune were crowd
ed with mobiles, including Count Forez,
commanding the third army corps, the
troops that kept the course clear;
Prince and Princess Orloff Daroff,
Baron Rothschild and scores of prom
inent automobilists from both sides of
the Atlantic.
From the starting point the flying
racers shot ahead like arrows for half
a mile where they doubled back sharp
ly. skimming over the undulating road
past the forest of Argues before enter
ing the narrow dangerous shaped
chute to the bridge of Alcourt.
Lancia set a very high pace in the
first round but Duray soon overhauled
him. Wagner. however, passed both
before the first round was completed.
He finished the first round of about
AT miles in 80 minutes and SO seconds,
and steadily maintained his place in
the front. leading Duray by one min
ute and twenty seconds at the end of
the first round By this time accidents
had already begun. Eight contestants
were soon reported as having been
crippled and dropped out of the race.
Wagner was in difficulties in the
fourth round and was compelled to sur
render his lead, which was taken by
Duray and Lancia in second place. Inc
race at this stage seemed, barring ac-
cidentS, to have narrowed down 10
Duray and Lancia.
At the end of the fifth round Duray
was going at killing pace, and as he
passed the tribune, his elapsed time was
9 hours, "a minutes, So seconds; min
utes, "a seconds ahead of Lancia.
Duray Increases Lead
In the sixth round Duray increased
his lead over Lancia by "a seconds, and
Mazarro closed up strong third, 3S
seconds behind Lancia. Szisz was
fourth and the rest were strung out
most hopelessly behind.
Rabbits car colided with the car
driven by Richez, while descending the
Ancourt slope. Both were d1tched, Dut
neither of them was seriously injured.
During the race a woman was dan
gerously injured by the bursting of a
tire of Jenatsia's car.
Duray's machine broke down during
the eighth round, leaving Nazarro in
the lead by minutes, with Szisz sec
ond, minutes ahead of Lancia
On entering the last lap Navarro
looked to be an easy winner, Szisz was
two miles behind Navarro with Lancla
third, 10 minutes behind Szisz.
The course was triangular, the angles
being at Dieppe, Eu and Londonieres'
the course measured seventy-siX kilo-
meters 998 meters, and the competitors
had to traverse this course ten times
to make the total distance, little over
769 kilometers. approximately Az miles
Felix Navarro, the winner of the race
is an Italian. He finished third in the
international automobile cup race in
France, July g. 1905, and competed IN
the Vanderbilt cup race on October a.
1905, and October g. 1906, failing to fin
ish in both occasions. He won the
FIorio cup at Palermo, April IA, of the
present year, and June IA last he won
the German emperor's cup.
Francis Szisz, who took second place
was born in France. He drove Re-
nault car and did not finish in the Van
derbilt contest of October IA, 1905, Or
June 27, 1906, he won the Grand Prix
for which he was congratulated by
Minister of Public Works Barthon.