The 1908 Grand Prix de l’Automobile Club de France was the third Grand Prix and the second one on the Dieppe circuit on July 7.
Now, this race was run under newly formed regulations, as agreed in Ostend the year before. Maximum cylinder bore was 155 millimeters and a minimum weight of 1100 kilogramm. It was now a complete Mercedes and a Benz hegemony. With about nine minutes in advance, Chrirstian Lautenschlager in a Mercedes was the winner; Victor Hémery and René Hanriot were 2nd and 3rd, both in a Benz. To complete Mercedes dominance, Otto Salzer in a Mercedes, set the fastets lap.
The race was overshadowed by the first-ever fatal Grand Prix accident, as Henri Cissac and his mechanic Jules Schaude lost their lives. (more to come: page is under construction 07.05.2026).