Bugatti Type T 35C Philippe Etancelin 1930 French Grand Prix at Pau Formula 1

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Seller: aherl ✉️ (5,554) 99%, Location: Utr., NL, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 266040386803 Bugatti Type T 35C Philippe Etancelin 1930 French Grand Prix at Pau Formula 1 .

A superb and rare photo of Philippe Etancelin and his magnificent Bugatti T 35C racing car, just after   winning the 1930 French Grand Prix which was ridden on the circuit of Pau on the 21ST of September, 1930 . The French Grand Prix was also known as the ACF Grand Prix, ACF being the Auto Club of France.

 

Etancelin, nicknamed “Phi-Phi” won the race, which was a revelation as he beat the Bugatti factory riders and many other factory riders! On his right hand side we see his wife, Suzanne, joining in the victor’s well deserved honors.

 

The Bugatti Type T 35 was the most successful of the Bugatti racing models. It was the first vehicle to feature the famed Bugatti arch-shaped radiator, and is regarded by many as the most-beautiful pre-war racing car. The Type 35 was phenomenally successful, winning over 1,000 races in its time. It took the Grand Prix World Championship in 1926 after winning 351 races and setting 47 records in the two prior years. At its height, Type 35s averaged 14 race wins per week. Bugatti organized the Targa Florio as a special spotlight for this car, and it claimed victory there for five consecutive years, from 1925 through 1929. The original Type 35 was introduced at the Grand Prix of Lyon on August 3, 1924 . It used an evolution of the 3-valve 2.0 L (1,991 cc/121 c.i.) overhead cam straight-8 engine first seen on the Type 29. Bore was 66 mm and stroke was 100 mm as on many previous Bugatti models. 96 examples were produced. This new powerplant featured five main bearings with an unusual ball bearing system. It allowed the engine to rev to 6000 rpm, and 90 hp (67 kW) was reliably produced. Solid axles with leaf springs were used front and rear, and drum brakes at back, operated by cables, were specified. Alloy wheels were a novelty, as was the hollow front axle for reduced unsprung weight. A rare version was de-bored (to 52 mm ) for a total displacement of 1.5 L (1,494 cc/91 c.i.).

 

The Bugatti Type 35C that is shown in the photograph, featured a Roots type supercharger, despite Ettore Bugatti's disdain for forced induction. Output was nearly 128 hp (95 kW) with a single Zenith carburettor. Type 35Cs won the 1928 and 1930 French Grand Prix (see photo!). Fifty examples left the factory.

 

Philippe Etancelin was born in the French Normandy city of Rouen in 1896. He began his car racing career with a Bugatti in 1926, making an immediate impact by winning the Grand Prix of Reims. He worked as a merchant in the winter and raced cars during the summer. His wife, Suzanne, served as his pit manager. Their three children were placed in a school in Rouen while she traveled with her husband to races around the world. She communicated with Etancelin through French sign language as he raced around the speedway. Suzanne told a reporter that Etancelin bought a racing car to celebrate the birth of their second child, Jeanne Alice. He did not intend to race the car but merely use it for pleasure driving around the countryside. The couple once drove it up to a speed of 125 miles per hour. After two years of recreational motoring Etancelin decided to enter a race. Nicknamed "Phi-Phi," he teamed up with Luigi Chinetti to win the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1934. Etancelin was victorious in the 1936 Pau , France Grand Prix, driving an Alfa Romeo. Etancelin qualified 6th for the George Vanderbilt Cup, which was raced over 300 miles near Westbury , New York , in October 1936. Drivers qualified over a 20 mile distance of hairpin turns and a main straightaway at 150 miles per hour on a new 4 mile circuit, called the Roosevelt Raceway. By this time he had won the Marne Grand Prix three times. Étancelin participated in twelve World Championship F1 Grands Prix, debuting on May 13, 1950 . He scored a total of 3 championship points. His fifth place in the 1950 Italian Grand Prix made him the oldest driver to score championship points.

In 1953 the government of France awarded him the Legion of Honor in recognition of his contribution to the sport of automobile racing that spanned four decades. He died at the French town of Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1981.

 

Ettore Bugatti , founder of the automobile company that bears his name, was born in Italy . The Bugatti company however was founded in Molsheim a town in the Alsace region of France . The company was known for both the level of detail of its engineering in its automobiles as well as the artistic way in which the designs were executed, not surprising given the artistic nature of his family. The company also enjoyed great success in early Grand Prix motor racing, winning the first ever Monaco Grand Prix. The company's success culminated with driver Jean-Pierre Wimille winning the 24 hours of Le Mans twice (in 1937 with Robert Benoist and 1939 with Pierre Veyron). Bugatti's cars were as much works of art as they were mechanical creations, with engine blocks hand scraped to ensure that the surfaces were so flat that gaskets were not required for sealing to engine turned finishes on many of the exposed surfaces of the engine compartment, and safety wires threaded through almost every fastener in intricately laced patterns. Rather than bolt the springs to the axles as most manufacturers did, Bugatti's axles were forged such that the spring passed though a carefully sized opening in the axle, a much more elegant solution requiring fewer parts. He regarded his arch competitor Bentley's cars as "the world's fastest trucks" for focusing on durability. According to Bugatti, weight was the enemy. Only a few examples of each of Ettore Bugatti's vehicles were ever produced, the most famous being the Type 35 Grand Prix cars, the "Royale", the Type 57 " Atlantic " and the Type 55 sports car. Throughout the production run of approximately 7,900 cars (of which about 2,000 still exist), each Bugatti model was designated with the prefix T for Type, which referred to the chassis and drive train. During World War II Bugatti worked at Levallois on several new projects, including the Type 73 road car, Type 73C single seater racing car (5 built), and the Type 75. After World War II, a 375 cc supercharged car was canceled when Ettore died.

 

Bugatti cars were extremely successful in racing , with many thousands of victories in just a few decades. The little Bugatti Type 10 swept the top four positions at its first race. The 1924 Bugatti Type 35 is probably the most successful racing car of all time with over 2,000 wins. Bugattis swept to victory in the Targa Florio for five years straight from 1925 through 1929. Louis Chiron held the most podiums in Bugatti cars, and the 21st century Bugatti company remembered him with a concept car named in his honour. But it was the final racing success at Le Mans that is most remembered—Jean-Pierre Wimille and Pierre Veyron won the 1939 race with just one car and meagre resources.

 

Ettore Bugatti also designed a successful motorised railcar, the Autorail, and an airplane which never flew. His son, Jean Bugatti, was killed on August 11, 1939 at the age of 30, while testing a Type 57 tank-bodied race car near the Molsheim factory. Subsequently the company's fortunes began to decline. World War II ruined the factory in Molsheim, and the company lost control of the property. During the war, Bugatti planned a new factory at Levallois in Paris and designed a series of new cars. Ettore Bugatti died on August 21, 1947 . The company attempted a comeback under Roland Bugatti in the mid-1950s with the mid-engined Type 251 race car. Designed with help from famed Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, and Maserati designer Gioacchino Colombo, the car failed to perform to expectations and the company's attempts at automobile production were halted. In the 1960s, Virgil Exner designed a Bugatti as part of his "Revival Cars" project. A show version of this car was actually built by Ghia using the last Bugatti Type 101 chassis and was shown at the 1965 Turin Motor Show. Finance was not forthcoming and Exner then turned his attention to a revival of Stutz. Bugatti continued producing airplane parts and was sold to Hispano-Suiza (another auto maker turned aircraft supplier) in 1963. Snecma took over in 1968, later acquiring Messier. The two were merged into Messier-Bugatti in 1977. Today the name is owned by Volkswagen AG who have revived it as a builder of very limited production sports cars.

 

This is a very nice and very rare non period photo that reflects a wonderful era of Bugatti ‘s automotive history in a wonderful way.  This is your rare chance to own this photo, therefore it is printed in a nice large format of ca. 8" x 12" (ca. 20 x 30 cm ).  It makes it perfectly suitable for framing.

 

 

 

 

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