Ferenc Szisz
Winner of the first Garnd Prix Race in 1906 at Le Mans
Nationality: Hungary
Born: September 20, 1873 Szeghalom in Hungarian section of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died: 1944 France 71 Years
Hungarian race car driver who won the first Grand Prix Race in 1906 at LeMans.
Related Posts
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Oct 16
2023
Mystery Foto #41 Solved: Hungarian Ferenc Szisz driving the #10 Renault in the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Did you identify this Vanderbilt Cup Race car driver?
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Jun 19
2023
Mystery Friday Foto #24; Peter Helck with Joe Tracy and Painting “Speed Demons of 1904- A Motor Race On The Continent in The Early Days”
Did you identify the gentleman and painting in this 1926 photo?
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Nov 27
2021
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: 12 Previously unpublished photos of the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
I recently purchased an unknown family's scrapbook of 250 photos taken from 1905 to 1914. Highlight are these previously never published 12 photos of the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race.
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May 11
2021
Greg O’s Garage: Removable rims and their impact on early motoring and racing
Please give a big welcome to VanderbiltCupRaces.com columnist Greg Oreiro. Greg O's Garage first post: Sometime in 1904/1905, the idea of having a pre-mounted tire and tube with air on a removable rim was beginning to take form. And unlike today, it was a big deal then.
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Dec 29
2020
Kleiner’s Korner: Part 2 - The Race that Brought Willie K. “Racing” to America”
Here are the next set of photographs of the participants of the 1903 Paris to Madrid race. Courtesy of the Helck Family Collection.
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Oct 21
2017
Updated: Article “The Vanderbilt Renaults” by Marvin McFalls
As a follow-up to the reunion of four Renault Vanderbilt Racers at the 2017 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, Marvin McFalls, president of the Renault Owners Club of North America, has provided this definitive article on these amazing racers linked to Willie K.
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Dec 21
2015
Mystery Foto #51 Solved: The #10 Renault at the Start of the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
This weekend's Mystery Foto documented the start of a Vanderbilt Cup racer.
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Sep 26
2015
Anatomy of a Peter Helck Painting: Bulls Head Turn
In 1941 Peter Helck created this marvelous painting of Joe Tracy in his Locomobile battling Ferenc Szisz in a Renault at Bulls Head Turn in Greenvale during the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race.
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Nov 26
2013
Mystery Foto #43 Solved: Szisz in the #10 Renault Preparing for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Mystery Foto expert Greg Oriero submitted this week's Foto.
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Oct 17
2012
1904 Renault Vanderbilt Cup Racer
The Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities (SPLIA) has forwarded this marvelous photo from their archives of the 1904 Renault Vanderbilt Cup Racer.
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Aug 20
2012
Then & Now: The Woodbury Turn of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race Part II
The closest the Vanderbilt Cup Race courses of Long Island Island ever came to Suffolk County was the Woodbury Turn at the intersection of Woodbury Road and Jericho Turnpike.
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Feb 28
2012
A Recently Rediscovered Peter Helck Painting “Bulls Head Turn”
Jim Blanchard has forwarded an image of this spectacular Peter Helck painting.
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Jan 10
2012
Walter McCarthy Collection: Ledyard Pfund’s 1906/1907 Renault “Vanderbilt Racer”
Another significant car at the 1988 Vanderbilt Cup Celebration was the 1906/1907 Renault "Vanderbilt Racer" owned by Ledyard Pfund of New Jersey. As noted in a 2007 Businessweek article "The World's First Production Supercar?":
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Aug 01
2010
Archives: 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Links to posts related to VanderbiltCupRaces.com (Updated: Febraury 1, 2012):
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Dec 19
2009
Starting Lineup: The 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
These 19 cars competed in the second Vanderbilt Cup Race held on October 14, 1905 won by the #18 Darracq driven by Victor Hemery. Remember to click on the photos to enlarge the image:
Rollin’s granddaughter Betty King had this medal. She said she gave it to the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum…