Delage Type Y

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Delage
Delage Type Y
Delage Type Y
Type Y
Production period: 1913-1914
Class : race car
Body versions : Phaeton
Engines: Otto engine :
6.2 liters
(105 PS)
Length:
Width:
Height:
Wheelbase : 2750 mm
Empty weight : 950 or 1000 kg
Previous model Delage Type X
successor Delage Type S
Arthur Duray at the wheel of a Delage Type Y
Paul Bablot in another Delage Type Y
Albert Guyot

The Delage Type Y was a racing car from the French brand Delage .

description

The national registration authority approved the vehicle with chassis number 1 and engine number 1 on June 24, 1913. Delage used the vehicles from 1913 to 1914. Predecessor was the Delage Type X , successor was Delage Type S .

A four-cylinder engine powered the vehicles. It was classified with 33  Cheval fiscal and had a 105 mm bore and 180 mm stroke 6234 cm³ displacement . The four valves of each cylinder were arranged horizontally and were operated by two side camshafts via tappets , push rods and rocker arms. The engine had double ignition with two magnetos and had a maximum output of around 105  hp (77 kW) at 2300 rpm.

A top speed of 160 km / h was determined during test drives. In races this value was possibly even higher.

The vehicle had a track width of 1300 mm and a wheelbase of 2750 mm . The curb weight was given depending on the source as 950 kg or 1000 kg.

Presumably four vehicles were built. The Indianapolis winning vehicle is in the Indianapolis Speedway Museum .

Races

The first race was the French Grand Prix on July 12, 1913 near Amiens . Paul Bablot / Losson finished fourth and Albert Guyot / Achille Seeuws fifth.

The Grand Prix de l'ACO took place in Le Mans on August 5th . Bablot / Losson / Léon Molon won ahead of Guyot / Seeuws, while Arthur Duray was fifth.

René Thomas / Robert Laly won the Indianapolis 500 in 1914 on May 30, 1914 . Guyot / Seeuws came third.

Other races were contested in the United States in 1915. In the Sioux City Indicars 1915 over 300 miles in Sioux City , William Knipper took sixth place. In the Elgin Road Race in 1915 over 301 miles in Elgin he was third. He achieved the same place in the Kalamazoo Indicars 1915 in Kalamazoo . Louis Chevrolet took the Chicago Indicars 1915 over 500 miles in Chicago in part.

date event place vehicle team Result
07/12/1913 1913 French Grand Prix Amiens Type Y Paul Bablot / Losson
Albert Guyot / Achille Seeuws 		4th
place 5th place
08/05/1913 Grand Prix de l'ACO 1913 Le Mans Type Y Paul Bablot / Losson / Léon Molon
Albert Guyot / Achille Seeuws
Arthur Duray /?		 1st
place 2nd
place 5th
05/30/1914 Indianapolis 500 1914 Indianapolis Type Y René Thomas / Robert Laly
Albert Guyot / Achille Seeuws 		1st
place 3rd place
1915 Kalamazoo Indycars 1915 Kalamazoo Type Y William Knipper place 3
06/26/1915 Chicago Indycars 1915 (over 500 miles) Chicago Type Y Louis Chevrolet ?
07/03/1915 Sioux City Indycars 1915 (over 300 miles) Sioux City Type Y William Knipper ?
August 21-22, 1915 Elgin Road Race 1915 (over 301 miles) Elgin Type Y William Knipper place 3

literature

  • Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise: Delage. France's Finest Car . Dalton Watson, Deerfield 2007, ISBN 978-1-85443-219-3 (English).

Web links

Commons : Delage Type Y  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Dick: Auto Racing Comes of Age: A Transatlantic View of the Cars, Drivers and speedways. 1900 - 1925, can be found on google books
  2. ↑ Václav Pauer: Vývoj Konstrukce závodních vozů - Vše podstatné z historie techniky formulových vozů, to be found on google books
  3. ↑ Pierre Lachet: Technical data on the Autocyber page (French, accessed February 20, 2020)
  4. ^ Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise: Delage. France's Finest Car . Volume 2. Dalton Watson, Deerfield 2007, ISBN 978-1-85443-219-3 , pp. 18-19 (English).