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Albert Derancourt ( about # 151)
This is Albert Derancourt who gained some fame in France in the late twenties as being the youngest racing driver. Here depicted years older... at the age of 10. In last weeks quiz he was 8 years old and at the wheel of 1926 Salmson Val 3. Yet he was famous for an even earlier event. At the age of 5 years old he already could drive a car on his own. With the Bugatti depicted here he was 10 and drove around a circuit (Montlhéry ?) at a speed of 150 km/hour... Irresponsible parents !!! We understand Albert didn't live long, the cause of his death is a mystery so far to us. (collection Horwitz)
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Friday, 22 April 2005
This is Albert Derancourt who gained some fame in France in the late twenties as being the youngest racing driver. Here depicted years older... at the age of 10. In last weeks quiz he was 8 years old and at the wheel of 1926 Salmson Val 3. Yet he was famous for an even earlier event. At the age of 5 years old he already could drive a car on his own. With the Bugatti depicted here he was 10 and drove around a circuit (Montlhéry ?) at a speed of 150 km/hour... Irresponsible parents !!! We understand Albert didn't live long, the cause of his death is a mystery so far to us. (collection Horwitz)
