12 teams, 32 cars2 days, 6 laps per day, 64-mile circuitAn especially enthralling video for your weekend enjoyment, posted on “Johnny B. Goode’s” YouTube channel back in 2007: Wonderful black and white video plus an informative and passionate voiceover serve to bring the 1906 French Grand Prix, run over two...

George Heath (Panhard-Levassor 130) prepares for the first French GP (LAT archive)On this day in 1906, the Automobile Club de France staged the first recognized Grand Prix auto race, staged on closed public roads outside the city of Le Mans. The event was organized at the request of French automobile...