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	Ferenc Szisz -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ferenc Szisz, (September 20, 1873 - February 21, 1944), was a (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French race car driver and the winner of the first ever (additional info and facts about Grand Prix motor racing) Grand Prix motor racing event.
		Ferenc Szisz was born in the small town of Szeghalom in (additional info and facts about Békés County) Békés County of the (A native or inhabitant of Hungary) Hungarian part of what was the former (additional info and facts about Austro-Hungarian Empire) Austro-Hungarian Empire.
		Ferenc Szisz and his wife are interred in the churchyard cemetery in Auffargis.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fe/Ferenc_Szisz.htm (528 words)

	Ferenc Szisz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ferenc Szisz (September 20, 1873–February 21, 1944), was a French race car driver and the winner of the first Grand Prix motor racing event.
		Ferenc Szisz was born in the small town of Szeghalom in Békés county of the Hungarian part the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
		At Renault, Ferenc Szisz's engineering talent made him an integral part of the testing department, and when the company became involved in racing in 1902 he was chosen as the riding mechanic for Louis Renault.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferenc_Szisz (555 words)

	8W - When? - 1906 ACF GP
		Szisz, who was known for his mechanical sensitivity, started off at a good, fast pace and after a fine 3:47 pitstop he took over the lead on lap 3 and held it until his car was flagged off after 5:45:30.4 and moved into the parc fermé for the night.
		Szisz seems to be a tough name for GP historians, as sometimes we see him called Frank Szisz or Francois Szisz, probably according to the nationality of the writer...
		Szisz Ferenc was born in Szeghalom, in Hungary on 20th September 1873.
	8w.forix.com /f06.html (3116 words)

	Renaultsport - Heritage - Landmark Cars
		The 12-lap race was held over two days and Hungarian-born driver Ferenc Szisz won by a comfortable margin of 32 minutes ahead of the Fiat of Felice Nazaro and averaged 105 kph over the 1285 kms distance, despite having to stop 19 times to change punctured tyres.
		Szisz returned the following year but had to settle for second behind the Fiat as he was forced to conserve fuel in the latter stages of the race.
		In 1908 Szisz was denied a second French Grand Prix win by a wheel problem and at the end of the year Renault stopped racing to concentrate on building road cars.
	www.renault.com.au /renaultsport/renaultstory/landmarkcars/renaulttypeak.htm (213 words)

	GrandPrix.com > Features > Historical > Ferenc Szisz: The Hungarian railway engineer
		Initially Szisz worked as a mechanic but an interest in the company's racing activities led to him becoming one of Louis Renault's riding mechanics in a number of races in 1902.
		This low-slung car first appeared in the Elimination Races for the Gordon Bennett Cup event in 1905 and Szisz (racing under the name Francois Szisz), who was by then head of the Renault testing department, was one of the three Renault drivers, alongside Maurice Bernin and the little-known J Edmond.
		Renault's interest in racing was again on the wane and Szisz only appeared in the Grand Prix de l'ACF and the Vanderbilt Cup thereafter, finishing second to Felice Nazzaro in the French event in 1907.
	www.grandprix.com /ft/ftjs032.html (570 words)

	Pestiside.hu - News, Gossip, Culture, Sex and All the Rest, from Cosmopolitan Budapest, Hungary: Unauthorized ...
		While aficionados of the series that is now known as Formula 1 agree that the first man to take the checkered flag was Ferenc Szisz (left), when and where the racing pioneer died is the subject of much debate.
		At the time, Szisz, who was born in Szeghalom, was working as a mechanic at Renault, which, by coincidence, is leading this year's F1 World Championship.
		Beleznay recalled that Szisz was a shepherd, and used to tell the kids his throat was made of platinum, and was otherwise a "bohemian, worldly, funny dude." This Szisz gave television interviews about his exploits, and, when he died in 1970, representatives of Renault showed up at his home and gave presents to his widow.
	www.pestiside.hu /archives/unauthorized_autobiography_ii_ferenc_szisz_racing_legend001393.php (340 words)

	grand prix motor racing - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Six laps were to be run each day, and each lap took about an hour using the relatively primitive cars of the day.
		From the 32 entries representing 12 different automobile manufacturers, the Hungarian-born Ferenc Szisz (1873-1944) won the 1260 km race in a Renault.
		Races in this period were heavily nationalistic affairs, with a few countries setting up races of their own, but no formal championship tying them together.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Grand-Prix-motor-racing (1293 words)

	Grand Prix Cars - Renault (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The new rims allowed two people the ability to change both rear wheels in less than 4 minutes as opposed to the 16 minutes required by fixed rims.
		Ferenc Szisz, a native of Hungary, was Renault's chief test driver.
		During the race he had to stop nine-times due to tire punctures yet because of the removable rims he was able to finish exhausted but thirty-two minutes ahead of the second place Nazzaro in a Fiat.
	www.bonus.com /contour/Grand_Prix_History/http@@/www.ddavid.com/formula1/renault-1906gp.htm (203 words)

	F1 Central >> F1 Magazine > History: Hungarian GP
		Ferenc Szisz drove his final race in France in 1914, retiring a friends Alda, a marque long since forgotten.
		So we come to 2005, one year shy of a century on from when Ferenc Szisz took that hard earned victory in France, and with no Zsolt Baumgartner to fly the local flag this time around.
		One last point of interest; while researching the life of Ferenc Szisz, from his birth (September 20th, 1873 in an anonymous village named Szeghalom in the former Austro-Hungarian empire) through to his death (February 21st, 1944, buried in the church cemetry at Auffargis, near Paris) I came across a curiosity.
	formula-1.updatesport.com /magazine/article/History--Hungarian-GP/1122380852.html (1080 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ferenc Szisz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years).
		Louis Renault (1843 - 1918) was a French jurist and educator, the cowinner in 1907 (with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta) of the Nobel Prize for Peace.
		Savannah Savannah is a city located in (and the county seat of) Chatham County, Georgia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ferenc-Szisz (1046 words)

	GrandPrix.com > Features > Globetrotter > Goons, graves, image and substance
		It was a hunch that needed scratching and so I dragged the poor unfortunates to a small cemetery in a leafy corner of the valley.
		Somewhere in here, I said, there might be a grave belonging to Ferenc Szisz, the winner of the very first Grand Prix, which was held in Le Mans in 1906.
		Szisz, a Hungarian, had been a Renault driver.
	www.grandprix.com /gt/gt12887.html (1093 words)

	Telegraph \| Motoring \| Renault is World Champion, again
		On day one at Le Mans, Szisz took the lead in his 12.9-litre four-cylinder Renault after losing only three and three quarter minutes to tyre changing.
		Next day the cars restarted at a time matching their race duration on day one, so Szisz rumbled away just after dawn, at 05:45:30.
		Nursing a broken rear spring, this spring-steel Hungarian drove on in blistering heat to win motoring's first pureblooded grand prix, averaging 62.97mph for the 770 miles.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2005/10/22/mnren22.xml&sSheet=/motoring/2005/10/22/ixmot.html (322 words)

	This Day in History
		The first French Grand Prix--the first race of that type to be held anywhere--was staged in Le Mans by the Automobile Club of France and won by Hungarian driver Ferenc Szisz in a 90hp Renault.
		Szisz's 13-liter Renault covered the 768 miles of rural dirt roads at an average speed of 63mph.
		Szisz stopped his car nine times to replace tire punctures, but he was still able to finish 32 minutes ahead of the second place Nazzaro's Fiat.
	www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=automotive&month=10272958&day=10272991 (440 words)

	Hungarians in the F1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Despite today you couldn't find any Hungarian driver in Formula1, you have to know that at the beginning a Hunagarian driver were in the first Formula1 race, and what is more he won it.
		Ferenc Szisz was born in 1873 in Szeghalmon, Hungary.
		In that car on the first 'Formula1' race on 26-27 July 1906 (in Le Mans), there was the engine made by the Hungarian, but this chance cost the patent laws of the new engine.
	www.extra.hu /my_formula1/hunf1driver.htm?ExtraPopUp=5a611af0c17664ad109a7d26c95369d5 (1203 words)

	Hungarians in the F1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He was Ferenc Szisz, but unfortunately only few people know who he was.
		Francois Szisz, how they called him that time, was in the team that developed the Renault race car.
		The road was 1,239 kilometres, that Szisz clocked 12 hours and 14 minutes.
	extra.hu /my_formula1/hunf1driver.htm?ExtraPopUp=5a611af0c17664ad109... (1203 words)

	pitpass - the latest, hottest F1 & A1 GP news
		Ferenc Szisz drove Renaults to first and second, Felice Nazarro took Fiats to second and first.
		Szisz was Hungarian, a nationality that didn't have much to do with Grand Prix racing until 1986 and the first Hungarian Grand Prix, which brings us to the next Grand Prix on the calendar.
		As you've probably noticed, I've been looking back 50 years to the races of 1953.
	www.pitpass.com /fes_php/pitpass_feature_item.php?fes_art_id=10634 (473 words)

	F1 Central >> Formula 1 News > ‘I’m very famous’, insists Baumgartner
		Zsolt Baumgartner may not turn many heads, even in the Formula One paddock, at Silverstone or in Melbourne, but he's a national hero at the Hungaroring venue.
		The 22-year-old is the first Hungarian-born grand prix ace since a driver called Ferenc Szisz, who drove a pioneering Renault car with wooden wheels in 1906.
		Zsolt's countryman so wanted to see a Hungarian on the F1 grid that they dipped into their own pockets to finance his current seat at slowest team Minardi.
	formula-1.updatesport.com /news/1092378503.html (231 words)

	Robert Benoist
		Captain Robert Benoist is recorded on the Brookwood Memorial in Surrey, England and as one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, he is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre departément of France.
		In his honor, the village of Auffargis named a sreet after him and it is there in the churchyard cemetery on "Allée Robert Benoist" that fellow pioneer race driver, Ferenc Szisz is buried.
		The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_benoist.html (709 words)

	A Lap of Hungaroring
		Now, 14 years on, it is another stop on the Grand Prix trail and one that everyone has got used to, always enjoying the beautiful city of Budapest.
		Hungary's motor racing heritage is almost well-known: Ferenc Szisz, who won the 1906 French Grand Prix started it all in the golden age of heroes.
		In 1936, the first Hungarian Grand Prix was held at Nepliget Park on the outskirts of Budapest, won by the heroic Tazio Nuvolari who held off the might of the big German teams.
	www.atlasf1.com /2000/hun/preview/hunlap.html (1041 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was a two-day contest, run over 12 laps (six each day) of a 103 km circuit near Le Mans.
		There were 34 starters, 11 finishers and the winner, by 32 minutes, was the Hungarian test driver Ferenc Szisz in a 13-litre, four-cylinder Grand Prix Renault.
		Renault's second victory in the French GP came at Dijon, 73 years and three days after the first, when Jean-Pierre Jabouille recorded the first win for a turbocharged car in formula1 on July 1 1979.
	www.jean-alesi.com /picture/drvnewstb.txt (833 words)

	ITV Motoring - Minardi
		This makes Baumgartner the first Hungarian driver to score in the World Championship, though not by a long chalk the most successful Hungarian driver in Grand Prix racing.
		There's still some way to go before another of his countrymen matches Ferenc Szisz's French GP win for Renault 98 years ago.
		Another historical oddity is that this was Minardi's first points-scoring result since Mark Webber finished fifth in the Australian Grand Prix.
	www.carkeys.co.uk /sport/f1_2004/09_united_states/3450.asp (178 words)

	The Motorsport Industry Association
		After this, Renault was a major player in town-to-town racing in the early years of the twentieth century and Marcel Renault took victory in the 1902 Paris-Vienna race.
		As racing moved to closed circuits, Renaultâs success continued with an historic victory in the first ever Grand Prix when Ferenc Szisz won in France in 1906.
		Renault then withdrew from top-level motorsport and did not return until Renault Sport was established at Viry-Chatillon in 1975, two years before the first Renault Formula One car was created.
	www.the-mia.com /index_sub.cfm?id=295 (590 words)

	French Grand Prix
		I am sure there are some nice places in that part of France but I have yet to find one.
		The French Grand Prix dates back to 1906 when a Hungarian by the name of Ferenc Szisz won in a 13 litre Renault.
		This famous carmaker had to wait 73 years for their next victory on a pretty little track near Dijon.
	www.theautochannel.com /sports/openwheel/f1/races/french/fgp27.html (539 words)

	Formula 1 complete - Hungaroring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hungarians do not feature heavily in the roll-call of Formula One drivers.
		In fact the only one we can trace was Ferenc Szisz, who is credited with winning the first ever French Grand Prix, held at Le Mans in 1906.
		Unable to pronounce his name, the French referred to him as "Francois," a handle he acquired in his role as a travelling mechanic to the founder of Renault.
	www.f1complete.com /cthung.htm (729 words)

	1907 Renault Race Car, Two Passenger, Open (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		No American cars competed in France, but two Americans living in Europe drove in the event.
		Both American's, though driving French cars, lost to Czech driver Ferenc Szisz in a Renault.
		Renault raced again in 1907 and returned to the victory podium for the second time.
	www.chandlerwheels.com /autos/auto_pages/1907_renault_race.html (618 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Circuits > Le Mans
		The track was totally different to the one used today and was laid out on public roads to the east of the city, linking Le Mans with the towns of St. Calais and La Ferte Bernard.
		The race was held over two days and was won by Ferenc Szisz, a Franco-Hungarian driving a Renault.
		The Grand Prix de l'ACF then moved to a variety of other tracks prior to World War I before returning to Le Mans in 1921.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/cir-037.html (886 words)

	Homenetmen London Sports Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A football is made up of how many leather panels?
		Ferenc Szisz from Romania won the first Formula One Grand Prix held at Le Mans, France in 1906.
		Congratulations to Sevag Dadourian for submitting all correct answers and winning a years free subscription to "Marzig" Sports Magazine!
	www.homenetmen.org.uk /sports/newsletter/MarzaganQuizAnswers.htm (94 words)

	Renaultsport - Heritage - Landmark Cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For over a century Renault has produced winning cars in many categories.
		It's first major win came in 1902 when the Renault brothers took their Type K to victory in the Paris-Vienne long distance road race, but it's most famous came four years later when Ferenc Szisz won the world's first ever Grand Prix in France.
		Outside of Formula One the race every manufacturer wants to win is Le Mans which Renault achieved in 1978 with its Alpine A442B, whilst in this country the British Touring Car Championship title is the one coveted by all and Renault took the crown with its Williams-prepared Laguna in 1997.
	www.renaultsport.co.uk /heritage/landmarkcars (146 words)

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