Dario Resta competed in the first race ever held on Britain’s hallowed Brooklands circuit on July 6, 1907, and died there trying to set speed records on September 3, 1924. In between the two, his European career had its highs and lows, but his exploits in the United States were, without doubt, the stuff of heroes. He won the 1915 American Grand Prize, the 1916 Indianapolis 500 and, in that same year, became the only non-American to win the American…

At Dieppe, Resta ran 3rd overall and 1st among contestants for the Coupe de L’Auto—for cars weighing more than 800 kilograms and displacing less than three liters—until passed by his teammate Rigal on the final lap.