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Dragutin Esser was a
Dragutin Esser was a race car
Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition.
Auto racing has existed since the invention of the automobile. Races of various sorts were organi ...
driver, driving cars designed or built by Émile Mathis
Ernest Charles "Émile" Mathis (15 March 1880 – 3 August 1956) was a French businessman who founded the car firm Mathis in 1910. (Before the frontier moved in 1919, he would have considered himself a German businessman and the car firm was a ...
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The production cars of Mathis driven by Dragutin Esser or by Emile Mathis achieved numerous successes in the touring classes:
:Grand Prix du Mans - 1911
:Grand Prix de l'A.C.F. - 1913
:Tour de France - 1913
:and at other venues around Europe including the U.K.
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and Ireland
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Dragutin Esser designed two cars of 2025cc and 2253cc which were built by Mathis under license from Stoewer.
In July 1914, Esser drove a Nagant on the XIV Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France - and finished 6th.
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20040610155615/http://club.mathis.free.fr/home.en.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20040624154322/http://vea.qc.ca/vea/marques1/mathis.htm French racing drivers {{France-autoracing-bio-stub