The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-03
NAVARRO WON GRAND PRIX Rode Like a Demon
 Throughout Race. BROKE WORLDS RECORD About Two Hundred Thousand
 People Saw Race. The Pace was Kiri.s From start and Score of Cars Were Left Be- hind In Second

Diepps. July 2.--with . wonderful display of cooIness. nerve and endu- rance, Navarro. the Italian champion. today captured the automobile grand prix at an average sspeed Of l13 kiio- metres, 600 metres an hour. breaking the worlds record. The pace was kill ing from the start. leaving score Of cars hopelessly beaten before the sec onr round was ended. Nazzaro was not prominent early in the contest. Lancfa 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 or lap after rap under for ty minutes. looked an easy winner. but on entering the fourth round broken bearing put his car out of action and he was forced to retire anid the plau- dits of the crowds
 Tn the meantime Nazxaro, riding like a demon. but cool and steady. over- hauled Lancia and when Duray drop ped out he continued on, unheaded to finish sxisx came up from the rear and made a gallant effort during the last two laps to overtake the flying leader. Lancia's fuel gave out in the final round. permitting Baras to finish third.
 
 were as follows:
 Nazzaro 6 hours, ls minutes, ss sec onds. Szisx. 6 hours, 58 minutes. 10 seconds, Baras. hours, minutes, a-s seconds.
 Thousands Sec Race. Glorious sunshine favored the start Of the grand pFix automobile race to- day. Fifty thousand persons massed in and around the tribune saw the ma nA honf oEd 0SA l journey, while 150.000 others were con centrated in other villages along the route to view the race
 The roadway dried up nicely during l the night and ass the start was made, | looked. 10 be very fast. Going to the pest of the pilots of several of the most powerful machines were denbtr I ful as 10 whether they would be abls so coinplete Che course with the amount ! of gasoline allowed them The betting odds on the Fiat cars lengthenedi on | this account. Some Of the expbrts even went so far as to predict that l one third Of the cars would be strand- ed in the roadside before the race was | finished. The signal to start was given by six | small saluttng cannon mounted oppo- | site the tribune. With the sound of the | first report Lancia in a Fiat car, shot | by the stand, the first away He was sent off with roar of applause. The other competitors followed at minute intervals Duray in a Torraine de Die | trich, was fourth; Szisz. driving for the Renaults was ninth; W. c. Chris 1 tie in his American machine was twelfth; Nazaro in another Fiat was l eighteenth; Heath, Another American, | driving Uanard, was the thirty-sec- l ond man to get away.
 The lodges at the tribune were | crowded with notables, including Count | Forcez. commanding the third army | corps, the troops of which kept the roadway clear: Prince and Princess Or iio Dairofr; Baron Rothschilds and scores of prominent autoInobilists from both sides of the Atlantic | Lancia set very high pace in the | first round but Duray nevertheless soon overhauled him. Wagner, however. passed both before the first rounds were completed. He eventually completed | the first round of about sixty-nine | steadily maintained his place in the | front, leading Duray by one minute and | twenty seconds at the end of the first | round. By this time accidents had al- ready begun. Eight contestants were | soon reported as having been crippled | and having dropped out of the race. | Christie was having more trouble and I of the favorites in the race also had | hia measure of bad luck. While re- | provisioning, he overtripped his re- l ceptacle and lost quite a quantity of | the precious petroleum.
 1 Wagner was In difficulties in the l fourth round and was compelled to 1 surrender the lead, which was taken by Duray and Lancia in second place.
 At the end of the fifth round Duray was going at a killing pace and as he passed the tribune his lapsed time was three hours. twenty-four minutes, ffty-hve seconds. two minutes and fourteen seconds ahead Of Lancia.
 In the sixth round Duray increased his lead over Laneia by thirty-three seconds and Nazzaro closed up a strong third. thirty-eight seconds be- hind Lancia. Szizz was fourth and the rest were strung out most hopelessly beaten.
 Two Cars Collide.
 BabIots collided with the car driv- en by Richez while descending the An court slope. Both were ditched but neither of them was seriously injured.
 Shepard, in spite of three petty &C., cidents was well up towards the lead CTS.
 Nazarro, driving furously. covered the seventh round in thirty eight minutes, forty seconds, taking second place from | Lancia.
 Duray's machine broke a gearing in the eighth round, leaving Navarro in the lead by four minutes, with Szizz second. four minutes ahead of Lancia.
 The crowd groaned in sympathy as they saw Duray trudging back on foot but they gave him cheer as he pass ed and the hopes of France were then transferred to Szizz. who was a good second.
 On entering the last lap Nazarrc looked to be an easy winner. barring the exhaustion of the petroleum.
 Szizz was two minutes behind Nag zaro with LAncia third. ten minutes
 behind Szizz.
 The course was triangular. the am
 gles being at Dieppe, Flu and London
 iere's.
 The course was seventy-six kilome.
 tres. 9ss metres and the competitorl
 had to traverse this circuit ten timel
 to make the distance
 Something of the Drivers.
 Nazzaro. the winner of the race. fl
 an Italian. He finished third in thu
 International automobile cup race 1T
 France, July 5. 1905, and competed fl ! tho Vanderbilt cup race of October II