Talk:Pau Grand Prix

1949

I was at Pau on Easter Monday 1949

Juan Manuel Fangio was there with another Argentinian driver named Campos. The French called them "les mangeurs de paille" or "the straw eaters" for the daring way of using all of a corner. The two magnificently prepared cars were Maserati 4ACTL 1500cc with two stage compressors. These conformed to the pre-war and still ruling Formula 1: 4500cc aspired or 1500cc supercharged. The description in the article is somewhat misleading. Also Nello Pagani, winner of the two previous editions may have been driving a 1500cc 4actl with single stage compressor. In 1949, after winning the 500cc motorcycle race, with a better time than Fangio on fastest lap, he drove again a factory Maserati 1500cc single stage compressor. I dined with Nello the same evening.

Please rectify the text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.50.32.228 (talk) 10:02, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

1901

I have removed the unsourced claim that the Pau Grand Prix of 1901 was the first motor racing grand prix. A track profile in an Atari video game does not constitute a valid source, especially with the magnitude of claim that was inferred from it. I assume that the Atari marketing department have accidentally conflated the Circuit du Sud-Ouest that was run at Pau on the 17 February 1901, and was won by Maurice Farman driving a Panhard 24 hp.ref ... Grand Prix Winners 1895-1949 by Hans Etzrodt Part 1 1895-1916) Chienlit (talk) 23:08, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

(The removed text and 'reference' was ... The race was first held in 1901<.r.e.f. name="Track Reveal #4:Pau">"Track Reveal #4:Pau". atari.com. n.d. Retrieved 2009-03-29.<./.r.e.f.>. ... The race was the first ever to be called a Grand Prix.)

• I have now clarified the article with separate Notes relating to the 1899 Pau Bayonne Pau event, and the Circuit du Sud-Ouest that was held in both 1900 and 1901. Chienlit (talk) 14:27, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

need translations

Hello everybody,

I worked previously on the "Grand Prix de Pau" French Wikipedia article and I need some help to translate this text from French to English.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prix_de_Pau

Thanks for Reply  ;-)

--5W (talk) 11:41, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

big mistake

good morning everybody, i'm writing only to tell you that in every language there is a big mistake. the race track can not be 2000 kilometers long. I would change it but i dont know how to do it. Please can someone write meters instead of kilometers.

p.s.: for some of you i explain the mistake. the circuit of Monza is 5000 meters or 5 kilometers, because 1000 meters equals to 1 kilometer. For this reason a trip of 2500 kilometers would last more than one day and this has no sense

thanks to everybody

RR — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.47.220.14 (talk) 08:23, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello RR. On English Wikipedia, "." = decimal point and "," = thousands separator, so "2.760 km" means "2 and 760/1000 km", not "two thousand, seven hundred and sixty km" - see MOS:DECIMAL and MOS:DIGITS for further information. DH85868993 (talk) 10:25, 9 August 2021 (UTC)