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Jan 01, 0001 Died on 07 Jan 1958 (aged 1957)
French racing driver
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About Louis Rigolly
- Louis Rigolly (1876 - 1958), a Frenchman, was the first man to drive a car at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).He set a record of 103.561 mph (166.665 km/h) on a beach at Ostend in Belgium on 21 July 1904, driving a 13.5 litre Gobron-Brillié racing car.
- He covered a 1 kilometre course in 21.6 seconds, beating Belgian Pierre de Caters mark of 97.25 mph (156.51 km/h), set the previous May over the same 1 kilometre course in Ostend.
- The record stood for just three months.
- Rigolly also participated in early Grand Prix motor racing.
