Motor car racing in France - we see one car skid of track, another is captured in flames.
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Data
- Film ID:
- 885.33
- Media URN:
- 13036
- Group:
- Unissued / unused
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 06/07/1936
- Sound:
- Mute
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:02:24:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:54:15:00 / 01:56:39:00
- Canister:
- 36/54
Unknown user says
This is Jean Pierre Wimille driving a Bugatti Type 57G (No.84), winning the 'Grand Prix de France' for sports cars at Montlhéry on the 28th June 1936. He shared the drive with Raymond Sommer, who is pictured sitting on the car with Wimille at the end of the clip. Also seen are car 10 - Frazer Nash BMW 328 (H.J. Aldington), 96 Hudson (unknown), 8 - BMW 328 (Christian Kautz & Fritz Roth), 44 - Delahaye 135CS (Laury Schell & René Carriére), 42 - Delahaye 135CS (Jean Viale & Louis Villeneuve), 38 - Delahaye 135CS (Albert Divo & Robert Girod), 92 – Hudson (André Colas). Colas’ Hudson is then shown on fire at 01:35. 48 – Talbot T150C (Jim Bradley & René Dreyfus), 90 – spinning Lagonda LG45 (Enaro Leóz Abad & Genaro Leóz Abad). 46 – the second placed Delahaye 135CS (Marcel Mongin & Michel Paris). Wimille worked for the Special Operations Executive in WW2 and returned to motor racing after the war, but was killed in practice for the 1949 Buenos Aires Grand Prix. Sommer was active…
Unknown user says
Sommer was active in the French Resistance, but died in an accident in the 1950 Haute-Garonne Grand Prix.