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Prior to 1914 French GP, de Palma waits in the cockpit of his Vauxhall.

Ralph de Palma

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De Palma, his riding mechanic alongside, guides his factory Vauxhall over the 37.631-km Circuit de Lyon during the 1914 French Grand Prix, a race run barely a month before the onset of WWI. One of the greatest, and nice with it—that was Ralph De Palma. He won well over 2,500 of his 3,000 or so...

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