Gaston de Chasseloup Laubat

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Gaston de Chasseloup Laubat 1899
Georges Bouton and the Comte de Chasseloup-Laubat in a steam carriage Trépardoux & Cie. Dog Cart de route from 1885. This may be the winning vehicle in the Marseille-La Turbie race in 1897. (Advertising postcard by De Dion-Bouton, around 1907)

Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat ( 1867 – 20 November 1903 in Paris ) was a French racing driver .

life and career

The French nobleman bought a steam carriage from Trépardoux & Cie. in 1895. in Paris, the predecessor company of De Dion-Bouton and thus contested several races advertised as reliability tests in the pioneering era of the automobile . These included the 1895 season Paris-Bordeaux-Paris (later known as I Grand Prix de l'ACF ), 1896 Paris-Marseille-Paris ( II Grand Prix de l'ACF ) and 1897 Marseille-La Turbie and Paris-Trouville . His undoubtedly greatest success with a steam car was winning the raceMarseille–La Turbie 1897 (after Paris to Rouen 1894 the only success of a steam car on one of the great long-distance voyages of the turn of the century) and third place in the 1899 Tour de France for automobiles .

Chasseloup-Laubat was the first to set a recognized land speed record: on December 18, 1898, he achieved a speed of 61.15 km/h in a Jeantaud electric car , the Jeantaud Duc . In a duel with Camille Jenatzy in the spring of 1899, he improved this performance with his vehicle up to 92.16 km/h.

literature

  • Anthony Bird: De Dion Bouton - First Automobile Giant ; Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Car marque book No 6. (1971) Ballantine Books Inc. 101 Fifth Ave., New York, No. 02322-6 (English)
  • Anthony Bird: The single-cylinder De Dion Boutons ; Profile Publications No. 25; Profile Publications Ltd., Leatherhead, Surrey, England (English)
  • Jacques Rousseau: Guide de l'Automobile française , Editions Solar, Paris (1988); ISBN 2-263-01105-6 Hardcover (French)

web links

Commons : Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

  1. ↑ I Grand Prix Marseille-La Turbie, France 1897. www.driverdb.com, accessed 16 January 2013 (English).
  2. ↑ Bird: The single-cylinder De Dion Boutons ; Profile Publications No. 25 p. 9.
  3. ↑ First recognized land-speed record. Retrieved July 14, 2021 (German).
  4. ↑ Electric car revolution 100 years ago - hum instead of hum. Einetages.spiegel.de, accessed 16 January 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Chasseloup-Laubat, Gaston de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing driver
BIRTH DATE 1867
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1903
PLACE OF DEATH Paris