Jules Goux

Jules Goux ( born April 6, 1885 in Valentigney, † March 6, 1965 ) was a French automobile pioneer and racers.

Inspired by the media coverage of the Gordon Bennett Cup, the young Jules Goux came at the beginning of the 20th century motorsport. His first major victory celebrated Frenchman in 1908, when he won the Catalonia Cup in Sitges. This success earned him a contract for work at Peugeot, where he was teammate of Georges Boillot.

In 1912 he won the Sarthe cup on a street circuit around Le Mans. At approximately this route eleven years later was extended for the first 24 - hour race at Le Mans. In 1913 he celebrated his biggest international success when he won not only the first Frenchman, but in general the first European to the 500-mile race at Indianapolis for Peugeot. In 1914 he went as a big favorite in the race, had to due to technical problems but with the fourth overall content.

The First World War interrupted the racing activities and Goux served in the French army. After the war he was works driver in Ballot, 1921 reached the third place in the Grand Prix of France and in the same year won the first Grand Prix of Italy. His last major successes came in 1926 for Bugatti, when he won the Grand Prix of France and Europe.

As one of the very few drivers of his generation Goux survived the race and did not die like almost all of his racing colleagues on the street. In 1965, the old high of 79 years, he died in his hometown of Valentigney from an allergy.