1905 Gordon Bennett Cup
1905 Gordon Bennett Cup | |||
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Pre-1906 Grand Prix seasons | |||
Race details | |||
Date | 5 July 1905 | ||
Official name | VI Coupe Internationale | ||
Location |
Auvergne, France | ||
Course length | 137.354 km (85.35 miles) | ||
Distance | 4 laps, 549.415 km (341.4 miles) | ||
Podium | |||
First | Brasier | ||
Second | FIAT | ||
Third | FIAT |
The 1905 Gordon Bennett Cup, formally titled the VI Coupe Internationale, was a motor race held on 5 July 1905 on the Auvergne Circuit in France. The race consisted of four laps of the mountainous 137.35-km (85.35-mile) circuit, to make the total distance 549.4 km (341.4 miles). A French entry driven by
Théry, driving a 96 hp
The race took place on the doorstep of the
Charles Rolls, driving a Wolseley, was the best-placed British representative, finishing eighth, while only one representative each from Austria and the United States finished, Edgar Braun coming home tenth in a Mercedes, and Herbert Lytle twelfth and last in a Pope-Toledo, nearly two and a half hours behind Théry.
Chronographs for timing for the event were again supplied by the Anglo-Swiss firm of Stauffer, Son & Co.[3]
After the race, the ACF announced its intention of not staging the Gordon Bennett Cup the following year, instead organising a race in which no limit could be placed on the number of cars a country could enter: the Grand Prix.
Classification
Pos | Driver | starting for | Constructor | Time/Retired | |||
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1 | Léon Théry (FRA) | France | Richard-Brasier
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7:02:43 | |||
2 | Felice Nazzaro (ITA) | Italy | FIAT | 7:19:09 | |||
3 | Alessandro Cagno (ITA) | Italy | FIAT | 7:21:23 | |||
4 | Gustave Caillois (FRA) | France | Richard-Brasier
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7:27:06 | |||
5 | Christian Lautenschlager (GER) | Germany | Mercedes
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8:03:30 | |||
6 | Arthur Duray (BEL) | France | De Dietrich | 8:05:00 | |||
7 | Pierre de Caters (BEL) | Germany | Mercedes
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8:07:12 | |||
8 | Charles Rolls (GBR) | Great Britain | Wolseley | 8:26:42 | |||
9 | Clifford Earp (GBR) | Great Britain | Napier
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8:27:30 | |||
10 | Edgar Braun (AUT) | Austria | Mercedes
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8:33:06 | |||
11 | Cecil Bianchi (GBR) | Great Britain | Wolseley | 8:38:32 | |||
12 | Herbert Lytle (USA) | USA | Pope-Toledo | 9:30:32 | |||
DNF | Vincenzo Lancia (ITA) | Italy | FIAT | * | |||
DNF | Camille Jenatzy (BEL) | Germany | Mercedes
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* | |||
DNF | Burton (AUT) | Austria | Mercedes
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* | |||
DNF | Joe Tracy (USA) | USA | Locomobile | * | |||
DNF | Otto Hieronimus (AUT) | Austria | Mercedes
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* | |||
DNF | Bert Dingley (USA) | USA | Pope-Toledo | * | |||
Source:[4]
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- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- Douglas-Scott-Montagu, Edward John Barrington (1963), The Gordon Bennett Races, London: Cassell & Company Ltd.