Greatest Formula 1 Races – The 1921 French Grand Prix

1921 French Grand Prix – When America Won The Grand Prix

By Peter de Paolo

After the Pay-off Banquet at Indianapolis where the prize money and the various trophies were awarded with the usual ceremony, we packed up, and the next day left for France, where Uncle Ralph de Palma was scheduled to drive in the French Grand Prix, a road race that was being run that year at the Le Mans course.

However, brother Johnny and I did not cross the Atlantic with Uncle. He went over on the Paris and we on a glorified tub called the Roussillon, so that ‘we could watch the Ballot’.