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The French Grand Prix (French: Grand Prix de France), formerly known as the Grand Prix de l'ACF (Automobile Club de France), is an auto race held as part of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile's annual Formula One World Championship. It is one of the oldest motor races in the world as well as the first "Grand Prix".
Luigi Fagioli is the oldest winner of a Formula One Grand Prix; he was 53 years and 22 days old when he won the 1951 French Grand Prix. [13] As of the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, out of the 778 drivers who started a Grand Prix, [14] there have been 115 Formula One Grand Prix winners. [15]
Maurice Trintignant competed in the inaugural season of the Formula One World Championship, debuting at the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix in a Simca-Gordini. He became the first French driver to win a World Championship Grand Prix at the 1955 edition of the same event. His only other race win also came at the Monaco Grand Prix, in 1958. He retired in ...
Nico Rosberg has the highest number of Grand Prix starts before winning his first title, a period of 206 Grands Prix between the 2006 Bahrain and the 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. [12] [13] Sebastian Vettel is the youngest winner of the World Drivers' Championship; he was 23 years and 134 days old when he won the 2010 championship. [14]
1979 British Grand Prix: 2012 Spanish Grand Prix: 6 Team Lotus ‡ United Kingdom: 79 1958–1994: 1960 Monaco Grand Prix: 1987 Detroit Grand Prix: 7 Brabham ‡ United Kingdom: 35 1962–1987, 1989–1992: 1964 French Grand Prix: 1985 French Grand Prix: Renault ‡ [a] France: 35 1977–1985, 2002–2011, 2016–2020: 1979 French Grand Prix ...
French Grand Prix: 62 (1950–1954, 1956–2008, 2018–2019, 2021–2022) Swiss Grand Prix: 1 (1982) 63 7 ... Grand Prix Circuit Winner Driver Constructor
A further historic confusion arose in the early 1920s when the Automobile Club de France attempted to pull off a retrospective political trick by numbering and renaming the major races held in France before the 1906 French Grand Prix as being Grands Prix de l'Automobile Club de France, despite their running pre-dating the formation of the Club.
The 2021 French Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Emirates Grand Prix de France 2021) was a Formula One motor race which took place on 20 June 2021 at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, Var. [b] The 53-lap race was the seventh round of the 2021 Formula One World Championship.