Articles tagged Victor Lancia

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by "Baladeur" "'The Eternal Second.' I wonder in how many races Giradot finished second! He certainly won Paris-Boulogne and the Gordon-Bennett race in 1899, but he finished second in so many more races that he was dubbed 'The Eternal Second.' Giradot always interested me by reason of this particular peculiarity in his career. . . In the great Paris-Berlin race he was Fournier's terror. Only a...