Jules Goux

Jules Goux , born the April 6th 1885 and dead the March 6th 1965, is a racing driver French. In 1913, he becomes the first European pilot to gain the 500 miles of Indianapolis.

Biography

Engineer at Peugeot, Jules Goux carries out his beginnings in automobile sport in the middle of years 1900 within the stable Lion-Peugeot, the official armed wing of the mark sochalienne in competition. With its fellow-member Georges Boillot, it gains many successes of category “carriers”, which pokes the interest of its employers as for a possible rise in the category “Grand Prix”. Within an autonomous small structure based in Paris region and called “the Charlatans” within the Peugeot factory, it takes part in the design of the revolutionist Peugeot L76 equipped with a double camshaft at the head (primarily due to the blow of pencil of the Swiss engineer Ernest Henry) which it misses of little making triumph as of its first appearance in competition, with the Grand Prix of the ACF 1912 with Dieppe (victory returning finally with Boillot).

The following year, party to defend the colors of Peugeot in the United States, it dominates the 500 miles of Indianapolis and becomes the first foreigner to be triumphed in what is becoming one of the tests headlights of the international calendar. To fight against heat overpowering this day the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, it sprinkles champagne with each one of its stops to the stands. It is less in success at the time of the edition 1914 of Indy 500 where Peugeot, large favorite, are handicapped by one assembles pneumatic misfit (it finishes all the same 4th).

A few weeks later, the Great War bursts, obliging it to put its sporting career between brackets since it is mobilized. It finds the competition in 1919, with a new beautiful result in Indy 500 (3rd). Passed in the rows of Automobile Bundle, it gains in 1921 in Brescia the first Grand Prix of Italy then in 1926 the Grand Prix of the ACF over a Bugatti.

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