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| Jules Goux | |||||||
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_(cropped).jpg) Goux in 1921 | |||||||
| Born | Jules Eugène Goux (1885-04-06)6 April 1885 Valentigney,Doubs, France | ||||||
| Died | 6 March 1965(1965-03-06) (aged 79) | ||||||
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| Major victories Indianapolis 500 (1913) | |||||||
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| 5 races run over 5 years | |||||||
| First race | 1913Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) | ||||||
| Last race | 1922Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) | ||||||
| First win | 1913Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) | ||||||
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Jules Eugène Goux (6 April 1885 – 6 March 1965) was a Frenchracing driver andGrand Prix motor racing champion. He was notable for being the firstEuropean driver to win theIndianapolis 500.
Influenced by theGordon Bennett Cup in auto racing, Goux began racing cars in his early twenties. Success came in 1909 on a circuit set up on roads aroundSitges, nearBarcelona,Spain, when he won theCatalan Cup, a victory he repeated the following year. Because of his racing success, along withGeorges Boillot, he was invited byPeugeot Automobile to race for their factory team. As part of a four-man design team led byPaul Zuccarelli andErnest Henry, Goux helped develop a racecar powered by a radically newStraight-4 engine using a twinoverhead cam.
Goux won the 1912Sarthe Cup atLe Mans driving a Peugeot, and in1913 he traveled with the team to theUnited States to compete in theIndianapolis 500. Goux won the race, becoming the first non-American Indianapolis 500 winner in history.[1] Goux reportedly consumed four bottles of champagne while driving in the Indianapolis 500 (then known as theInternational 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race) and was later quoted as saying,"Without the good wine, I would have not been able to win."
The following year,World War I broke out in Europe and Goux's racing career had to be put aside for service in the French military. At war's end, he returned to European Grand Prix motor racing. In 1921, driving forBallot Automobile, he finished third in theFrench Grand Prix then won the inauguralItalian Grand Prix atBrescia, Italy. For the next few years his racing career was marked by repeated problems and he did not return to the winner's circle until 1926. That year, driving forBugatti in a T39A model, he won both the French Grand Prix atMiramas and theEuropean Grand Prix at theCircuito Lasarte,Spain.
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| Preceded by | Indianapolis 500 Winner 1913 | Succeeded by |
