Benoist in a Delage. Photo courtesy Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The streets around the newly constructed Garage Banville in Paris’s 17th Arrondissement were and remain narrow, busy, and flat – ...
Especially in the early days of motorsport, long before telemetrics and minutia came to dominate it, drivers tended to be daring, cultured, highly personable sorts. They knew how to take risks and pu...