Topic: Cars and Drivers - Winners of the first nine Grands Prix de l'ACF

[Allan L]

I hope that there will be nine cars and six drivers for you to identify. The drivers in the car photos are not necessarily the same as those to be associated with the cars.
If you can associate drivers with cars with a year for each association, you may find there is an overall matter that they have in common.
My apologies to North Americans, for most of whom this will be rather more difficult than it is for Europeans (and South Africans!). Acually I think this one really is quite difficult, but we'll see!
Sorry about the order - forgot the 12 attachments rule!

[neilshouse]

Thank you Allan for another interesting Puzzle, I think I've got them all but I'm missing a few model names.

Driver 1 - George Boillot - Car No. 4 and 6
Driver 2 - Christian Lautenschlager - Car No. 2 and 5
Driver 3 - Jimmy Murphy - Car No. 8
Driver 4 - Felice Nazzaro - Car No. 3 and 7
Driver 5 - Henry Seagrave - Car No. 9
Driver 6 - Ferenc Szisz - Car No. 1
 
Car 1 - Renault AK90CV 1906
Car 2 - Mercedes 18/100 1914
Car 3 - Fiat 804 1922
Car 4 - Peugeot L76 1912
Car 5 - Mercedes 1908
Car 6 - Peugeot 1913
Car 7 - Fiat 16 Litre 1907
Car 8 - Duesenberg 1921
Car 9 - Sunbeam 1923

The connection is that they were all winners of the French GP.

[Allan L]

Well that didn't last long after all.
Some of the model designations are a bit hard to come by, so I won't be mean and insist on them.
Technically both 1912 and 1913 Peugeots were L76, although with detail differences.
The unkind would have called the Sunbeam an 804 (Fiat copy!) but even Anthony Heal just calls it 2 litre GP
The nit-picker would point out that it's Segrave, not Seagrave
I reckon this is worth six points at least