Christie WC1 au pesage
1907 Grand Prix de l'Automobile de France
2 July 1907- Dieppe Circuit
768.43 km
Walter Christie was born in River Edge, New Jersey in 1865, and as a young man began work in the Delamater Iron Works and took classes at Cooper Union in New York City. Eventually he became a consulting engineer for several steamship lines, and after the Spanish-American War he managed to patent a better turret track for naval guns. At this time he was also promoting his own designs for a front-wheel-drive car, which he raced at various speedways in the USA, and even competed in the Vanderbilt Cup and the Grand Prix in France.