Marcel Renault was a French car racing driver and industrialist, co-founder of the car maker Renault, and the brother of Louis and Fernand Renault. With Louis and Fernand he jointly founded the Renault make on February 25, 1899. He would race the cars from 1900 along with Louis. He died on May 25, 1903 after an accident during the Paris to Madrid race the day before in which he was badly injured. He was 31. The race began in Versailles with 216 cars and 59 motorcycles setting out at regular intervals. The first accident occurred only 45 miles from Paris when a woman was struck by one of the cars as she ran across the road. At Chatellerault a man and child were hit as one of the racers swerved to avoid them. The machine crashed into a crowd of spectators. Further south another car left the road and went into a group of spectators. Two people were killed in the crowd. The accidents continued throughout the day; cars hit trees and disintegrated, they overturned and caught fire. That night in Bordeaux the race was called off. Half the cars had crashed and at least eight people were dead - probably more. Many more were injured. There is a memorial at the place where his accident occurred on the RN 10 road in the Poitou-Charentes region of France. This type of race was not organized again until 1927. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (559x783, 114 KB)Description: Marcel Renault in 1902. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (559x783, 114 KB)Description: Marcel Renault in 1902. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Renault S.A. is a French vehicle manufacturer producing cars, vans, buses, tractors, and trucks. ... Louis Renault (February 15, 1877, Paris, France – October 24, 1944) was a French industrialist and one of the foremost pioneers of the automobile industry. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
After his death, a statue was built in his memory which later would be destroyed by the German attacks during the Second World War. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
LouisRenault was accused of collaboration and died in prison in late 1944.
Although Renault steered clear of competition, there was an involvement in rallying thanks to the efforts of Renault dealer Jean Redele, who established the Alpine tuning firm in Dieppe.
Renault's track racing was also developed with the introduction of Formula Renault in 1971 and the 2-liter sportscar program which resulted in European Championship success in 1974.
Renault's early racing success was restricted to class wins in the city-to-city races but after a couple of years of success the company was strong enough to plan for its own engines and hired one of the De Dion Bouton engine designers and he produced the first Renault engine.
The small-engined Renaults could not match the pace but they proved to be far more reliable than the bigger machinery, notably over the mountain sections where one by one the opposition went out, either crashing or breaking down.
MarcelRenault was seriously injured when he went off the road not far from Poitiers.
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