Pau Grand Prix
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| Number of times held | 71 |
| First held | 1933 |
| Most wins (drivers) |  Jim Clark (4) |
| Most wins (constructors) |  Dallara (11) |
| Circuit length | 2.760 km (1.714 mi) |
| Race length | 91.1 km (56.562 mi) |
| Laps | 33 |
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| Location | Pau, France |
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| Time zone | GMT +1 (DST: +2) |
| Major events | Formula Two, F3 Euroseries, WTCC |
| Length | 2.769 km (1.721 mi) |
| Turns | 15 |
| Lap record | 1:08.60 ( Andrea Montermini, Forti Corse Reynard-Cosworth, 1992, Formula 3000) |
The Pau Grand Prix (French: Grand Prix de Pau) is a motor race held in Pau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of southwestern France. The French Grand Prix was held at Pau in 1930, leading to the annual Pau Grand Prix being inaugurated in 1933. It was not run during World War II.
The race takes place around the centre of the city, where the streets are closed to form a circuit, and its 68 runnings have variously conformed to the rules of Grand Prix racing and Formula One, Formula Two and Formula 3000, Formula Three, Formula Libre, sports car racing, and touring car racing.
The race is run around the street circuit "Circuit de Pau-Ville" laid out round the French town, and is in many ways similar to the more famous Formula One Monaco Grand Prix. About 20 km to the west of the city, there is a 3 km long club track named Circuit Pau-Arnos.
The race cars are set up with greater suspension travel than is typically utilised at a purpose-built racing circuit to minimise the effect of running on the typical undulating tarmac of the street circuit.
In 1900, the newly created Automobile-club du Béarn held a race on a 300 km road circuit, called the Circuit du sud-ouest (Pau–Tarbes–Bayonne–Pau), the name of this race was the same as the circuit. It was won by René de Knyff.
In 1901, the Automobile-club du Béarn held the same race on the same circuit but not with the same title, the race name changed from Circuit du Sud-Ouest to Grand Prix du Sud-Ouest and this was the first event ever to be called Grand Prix in motor racing; it was the ancestor of the Pau Grand Prix. Some anglophone sources wrongly list a race called the 'Pau Grand Prix' in 1901. This may stem from a mistranslation of the contemporary French sources such as the magazine La France Auto of March 1901.
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