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[cabianca]

Does anyone have fairly complete results for this race? Everything I find is incomplete or conflicting.

Many thanks.

[Vitesse2]

From 'French Sports Car Revolution' p202:

 

On 20 September the AGACI held its annual autumn meeting for the club’s amateur independent members, with a race for touring cars before lunch, one for sports cars in the early afternoon, and a final curtain call for racing cars at the end of the day. Dreyfus having already left the company, Luigi Chinetti had entered a stripped T150C for the last race, and to keep the spectators entertained during the lunch hour he arranged to take the car round the autodrome for an hour’s high speed run, during which he must have hoped that he would at least approach the pace shown by the Bugatti Tanks three months earlier. It turned out to be one of the car’s most exposed displays of fallibility. Not only did its fastest lap of 208.614 kph (128.3 mph) - while remarkable enough in itself - fall short of the Bugatti speeds by some 15 kph, but it then broke down comprehensively, failing either to complete the hour or to start in its race later; a sad commentary on its seasonal performance - and even sadder in the implication that, after all, little progress seemed to have been made during the year.

Blight goes on to record that Joseph Paul used his Delahaye 135CS rally car to win the Coupe de l'Automne sports car race and then removed its wings and won the Coupe de Vitesse finale as well!

[Vitesse2]

L'Auto (which was one of the meeting sponsors) has quite comprehensive results, with a brief mention of Chinetti's attempt, recording that he only completed 13 laps.

 

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