Society of Air Racing Historians

                              JAMES GORDON BENNETT CUP RACES


 

August 28, 1909 – Reims, France  (2 laps of a 10-km. course)

1. Glenn Curtiss                8 Curtiss Reims            15:50.6            47.07 mph

2. Louis Bleriot             23 Bleriot XI                     15:56.0            46.80

3. Hubert Latham             13 Antoinette                     17:32.0            42.53

4. Eugene Lefebvre                        2 Wright              20:47.6            35.86

5. G.B. Cockburn                     32 Farman             out lap 1

October 29, 1910 – Belmont Park, NY, USA  (20 laps of a 5-km. course)

1. Claude Grahame-White   10 Bleriot XIbis            1:01:04.74       61.04 mph

2. John Moisant                        21 Bleriot XI                     1:57:44.85       33.74

3. Hubert Latham             16 Antoinette                     6:45:28.73         9.80

4. Alfred Leblanc                        17 Bleriot XI                     out lap 20 @ 67 mph

-- Armstrong Drexel                7 Bleriot XI                  out lap 8

-- Charles Hamilton                            Hamiltonian            started after deadline

July 1, 1911 – Eastchurch, England  (25 laps of a 6-km. course)

1. Charles Weymann                       2 Nieuport                       1:11:36.2         78.11 mph

2. Alfred Leblanc                          5 Bleriot              1:13:40.2         75.91

3. Edward Nieuport                       11 Nieuport                       1:14:37.2         74.95

4. Alex Ogilvie                1 Baby Wright            1:49:10.4         51.23

-- M. Chevalier                        12 Nieuport                       out lap 12 @ 58 mph

-- Gustave Hamel                4 mod. Bleriot            out lap 1

September 10, 1912 – Chicago, Ill., USA  (30 laps of a 6.7-km. course)

1. Jules Vedrines                       17 Deperdussin            1:10:56            105.06 mph

2. Maurice Prevost                  Deperdussin            1:12:55            102.20

3. Andre Frey                                Hanriot             out lap 24 @ 98 mph

September 29, 1913 – Reims, France  (20 laps of a 10-km. course)

1. Maurice Prevost               1 Deperdussin    :59:45.6            124.78 mph

2. Emile Vedrines                         5 Ponnier             1:00:51.4         122.53

3. Eugene Gilbert                2 Deperdussin            1:02:55.4         118.51

4. M. Crombez             17 Deperdussin            1:09:52.0         106.73

September 28, 1920 – Etampes, France  (3 laps of a 100-km. course)

1. Sadi Lecointe                       10 Nieuport 29V            1:06:17.2         168.74 mph

2. Bernard de Romanet             8 SPAD S.20bis            1:39:06.6         112.86

-- Georges Kirsch              11 Nieuport 29V            out lap 3 @ 153 mph

-- Frederick Raynham                        4 Martinsyde                   out lap 1 @ 178 mph

-- Rudolph Schroeder                      1 Verville VCP-R          DNF-overheating

`` Howard Rinehart                          2 Dayton-Wright            DNF-control cable  

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