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The Polish Count Eliot Zborowski, father of the creator of the ‘Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang cars, became the first competitor to be killed during a hillclimb, when he crashed his Mercedes at Le Turbie., near Nice, France

Wednesday 1st April 1903

The Polish Count Eliot Zborowski, father of the creator of the ‘Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang cars, became the first competitor to be killed during a hillclimb, when he crashed his Mercedes at Le Turbie., near Nice, France. The event was abandoned and the course subsequently shortened to less that half its former length.

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