* 1924 – Lloyd Hildebrand, French racing cyclist ( b. 1870 )

At 17: 30, Nelson hailed one of his two leading ships, HMS Zealous under Captain Samuel Hood, which had been racing Goliath to be the first to fire on the French.

Meanwhile, the synchronization gear ( called the Stangensteuerung in German, for " pushrod control system ") devised by the engineers of Anthony Fokker's firm was the first system to see production contracts, and would make the Fokker Eindecker monoplane a feared name over the Western Front, despite its being an adaptation of an obsolete pre-war French Morane-Saulnier racing airplane, with a mediocre performance and poor flight characteristics.

* 1990 – Charles Pic, French racing driver

* 1881 – Fernand Sanz, French racing cyclist ( d. 1925 )

* 1973 – Nicolas Minassian, French racing driver

* 1979 – Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver

From there, Clark went on to Paris, France, where in 1863, a group of racing enthusiasts had formed the French Jockey Club and had organized the Grand Prix de Paris, which at the time was the greatest race in France.

** Lotus GP, a French GP2 and GP3 racing team sponsored by Lotus Cars

The Seawind, Perry, Lightwave production catamarans from Australia, The largest manufacturer of large multihulls is Fontaine-Pajot in France ( the much larger French trimarans of the ORMA racing circuit and round the world record attempts are included in this total ).

* 1946 – Michel Leclère, French racing driver

* 1877 – Maurice Farman, French motor racing champion and aircraft manufacturer ( d. 1964 )

* Martini Cars, a French manufacturer of racing cars

* 1881 – Louis Bastien, French racing cyclist ( d. 1963 )

** René Dreyfus French Grand Prix racing driver ( b. 1905 )

* February 28 – Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver

Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d ' honneur ( born 24 February 1955 in Lorette, Loire ) is a French racing driver.

In the 1990s the circuit's use was limited to motorcycle racing and French national racing, most notably until 1999, the Bol d ' or motorcycle endurance race.

Ecclestone has expressed an intention to return Formula One racing to the circuit by hosting a biennial French Grand Prix at the circuit beginning in 2013 ( with a Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps in the alternate years ).

During the later 1930s, French constructors, unable to keep up with the progress of the Mercedes-Benz and Auto-Union cars in GP racing, withdrew into primarily domestic competition with large-capacity sports cars – marques such as Delahaye, Talbot and the later Bugattis were locally prominent.

In Europe, although most national championships ( British, French, German and the Spanish-based International GT Open ) run under FIA / ACO GT regulations with some modifications to ensure closer racing and lower costs, some championships are open to non-homologated GT cars.

For the 1913 French Grand Prix, an improved L5 ( with engine ) was produced with a pioneering ballbearing crankshaft, gear-driven camshafts, and dry sump lubrication, all of which soon became standard on racing cars ; unfortunately, Zuccarelli was killed during testing on public roads, but Boillot easily won the event, making him ( and Peugeot ) the race's first double winner.

Both sires success mainly restricted to the insular racing in Japan, but the daughter of Deep Impact, Beauty Parlour won the French classic race, the Poule d ' Essai des Pouliches in 2012.

The term is used in the French language and some others ; hence, some present-day horse racing tracks are also called hippodromes, for example the Central Moscow Hippodrome.

* 1877 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist ( d. 1917 )

* 1982 – Damien Monier, French cyclist

* 1985 – Mickaël Delage, French cyclist

* 1977 – Nicolas Vogondy, French cyclist

* 1960 – Laurent Fignon, French cyclist ( d. 2010 )

* 1940 – Roger Pingeon, French cyclist

* 1884 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist ( d. 1941 )

* 1939 – Louis Trousselier, French cyclist ( b. 1881 )

* 1957 – Maurice Garin, French cyclist ( b. 1871 )

* 1972 – Laurence Leboucher, French cyclist

* 1904 – Antonin Magne, French cyclist ( d. 1983 )

* 1904 – André Leducq, French cyclist ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Jérôme Pineau, French cyclist

* 1979 – Thomas Voeckler, French cyclist

* 1944 – Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist

* 1889 – Henri Pélissier, French cyclist ( d. 1935 )

* 1934 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist ( d. 1987 )

* 1917 – Octave Lapize, French cyclist ( b. 1887 )

* 1911 – Roger Lapébie, French cyclist ( d. 1996 )

* 1948 – Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist

* 1927 – Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist and economist

* 1981 – Sébastien Chavanel, French cyclist

* 1969 – Richard Virenque, French cyclist