Jules Goux
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Champ Car career | |||||||
| 5 races run over 5 years | |||||||
| First race | 1913 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) | ||||||
| Last race | 1922 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) | ||||||
| First win | 1913 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) | ||||||
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Jules Eugène Goux (6 April 1885 – 6 March 1965) was a French
racing driver and Grand Prix motor racing champion. He was notable for being the first European driver to win the Indianapolis 500
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Biography
Influenced by the
overhead cam
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Goux won the 1912 Sarthe Cup at Le Mans driving a Peugeot, and in 1913 he traveled with the team to the United States to compete in the Indianapolis 500. Goux won the race, becoming the first non-American Indianapolis 500 winner in history.[1] Goux reportedly consumed four bottles of champagne while driving in the Indianapolis 500 (then known as the International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race) and was later quoted as saying, "Without the good wine, I would have not been able to win."
The following year,
.Motorsports career results
Indianapolis 500 results
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References
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- Lewiston Daily Sun. 31 May 1913. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
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