The first Irishman to win a Grand Prix.

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The first Irishman to win a Grand Prix.

Postby Christopher » Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:16 am

Eddie Irvine? No. John Watson? No. The first Irishman to win a Grand Prix was Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave who won the 1914 French Grand Prix in a Sunbeam. He was born in Baltimore, U.S.A. in 1896, the son of an American mother and Irish father.
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