{"id":43286,"date":"2025-08-04T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43286\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:12:07","slug":"how-hungarian-driver-ferenc-szisz-became-grand-prix-racings-first-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43286\/","title":{"rendered":"How Hungarian driver Ferenc Szisz became Grand Prix racing\u2019s first winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The first race to carry the official moniker of \u2018Grand Prix\u2019 was the 1906 Grand Prix de l\u2019Automobile Club de France, held at a circuit near Le Mans. It was, appropriately enough, won by a 90CV Renault, but the man driving it was not one of several French star drivers but a Hungarian mechanic-turned racer. His name was Ferenc Szisz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Szisz was a genial fellow by all accounts, most notably his own description of how he won the race, which appeared in the German newspaper Algemeine Automobil-Zeitung later that year. He had been born September 20th, 1873 in Szeged, in Hungary\u2019s Theiss lowlands between Subotica and Timisoara. Having trained as a locksmith his career as a mechanic was interrupted by his military service with the cavalry regiment stationed on the Russian-Galizian border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first race to carry the official moniker of \u2018Grand Prix\u2019 was the 1906 Grand Prix de l\u2019Automobile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-43286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}