The primary race to hold the official moniker of ‘Grand Prix’ was the 1906 Grand Prix de l’Car Membership de France, held at a circuit close to Le Mans. It was, appropriately sufficient, received by a 90CV Renault, however the man driving it was not certainly one of a number of French star drivers however a Hungarian mechanic-turned racer. His title was Ferenc Szisz.
Szisz was a genial fellow by all accounts, most notably his personal description of how he received the race, which appeared within the German newspaper Algemeine Automobil-Zeitung later that yr. He had been born September twentieth, 1873 in Szeged, in Hungary’s Theiss lowlands between Subotica and Timisoara. Having educated as a locksmith his profession as a mechanic was interrupted by his navy service with the cavalry regiment stationed on the Russian-Galizian border.
