22. The 1914 French Grand Prix took place under the threat of war. Where was the event held?
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The 1914 French Grand Prix took place only a week after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Serbia. The race took place under major nationalist feeling, particularly as the race would be between the French Peugeots and German Mercedes.
A crowd of around 300,000 watched the race of 20 laps with 37 cars participating. At the start, two of the five Mercedes cars took off into the lead, essentially being 'rabbit' cars, to force the field to keep up with the furious pace. When Max Sailer retired on lap six, Georges Boillot, French Grand Prix winner in 1912 and 1913, took the lead and held it for several laps. But, as he had to take 8 tyre stops compared to the one tyre stop of the Mercedes, eventually the three Mercedes of Christian Lautenschlager, Louis Wagner, and Otto Salzer overtook the failing Peugeot to take a Mercedes 1-2-3 in front of a stunned and silent French crowd. Boillot would retire on the final lap with engine failure, and collapse on the front of his stricken Peugeot, a broken man. The French band refused to play the German national anthem and three weeks later, Europe was at war.
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