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Monaco Grand Prix 1930. Robert Falcucci.
31 ¼ x 47 3/8 in./79.3 x 120.3 cm
It’s a red, red, ripping and roaring sunset in this gripping design by Falcucci. Created for the second running of the Monaco Grand Prix, it’s arguably one of the best created for the event. (The first Grand Prix was just announced with text; this the first image done for the competition.) We don’t know the maker of this blazing white beast of a racecar, but René Dreyfus took the checkered flag that year in his Bugatti T35B.
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Peugeot. 1900. Rene Vincent.
46 5/8 x 61 ½ in./118.5 x 156.2 cm
This absolute monster of a chassis, careening out of a Tricoleur sky, bounding along with wheels in the air, is not exactly correct. It appears to be a hybrid of the 1913 and the 1916 Peugeots, which each won the Indianapolis 500: the wishbone front suspension is 1916; the configuration of the chassis, more 1913; but the actual artifacts have a slight upward curve as the hoods reach the steering wheel. Instead, Vincent decided to streamline the car into a totem of power and speed, making the drivers nearly invisible behind the gargantuan engine block. By 1919, Peugeots were among the world’s fastest – in addition to the Indy wins, they broke the world speed records at Brooklands in England, and took the French Grand Prix as well. These roadsters weren’t the average consumer’s Peugeot, but that wasn’t the point for Vincent. Blasting a future driver with the force of speed, power, and Frenchness? Definitely.
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