SOLVED: WTH # 325 - Ballot 2LS and Bugatti Type 29/30 in 1922 French GP at Strasbourg

[sixtee5cuda]

(Not absolutely sure this isn't a re-post)

When and where was this picture taken, and what cars are these?

[sixtee5cuda]

Time for a quick Expert point?

[frederick59]

looks like the virage de la source at Francorchamps

[sixtee5cuda]

Not at Spa-Francorchamps

[serra]

I think It is the 1922 French GP at Strasbourg.  Giulio Foresti leads with his #14 Ballot 2LS Pierre de Vizcaya with his #12  bugatti type 30.
First I thought that both cars were bugatti but then I saw the anchor.
Here there is a nice picture about the Ballot.

[sixtee5cuda]

And the point goes to Serra for the complete answer.  In fact, you included more information than I had, when I posted the puzzle.

I recently tried searching for the Anchor, thinking it was actually a religious cross.  Various sources also describe the Bugatti as a Type 29/30.

Your Ballot image has part of the aerodynamic nose removed.  In theory, this area contained the spare tire.  In practice, the spare was not carried during the race, to save weight.

[nicanary]

The corner is the hairpin in the village of Duttlenheim.

[Allan L]

The corner is the hairpin in the village of Duttlenheim.

More a T-junction than a hairpin.
Somewhere I have a photo I took of it in the 1980s with the buildings still recognisable.

[nicanary]

I defer to someone who's been there - I just looked at a circuit map.

The anchor represents the Ballot marque badge , which consisted largely of an anchor with the letters E and B either side of the upright. I have no idea whether the E stands for Ernest (Ballot) or the title of the company - Ets Ballot SA. (There should be an acute accent over the E and my schoolboy French has deserted me as to what it's short for).

[serra]

I have found some photos that make me think that the photo is taken in Duttlenheim.
What do yuo think about it?

[serra]

I leave some photos about Strasbourg Circuit for French GP 1922. I hope the numbers were Ok.

[Wendax]

The roof has been closed since then: 

[Allan L]

Yes, Wendax, that Google Streetview shot more or less how my photo shows it except the [**** d'Or] cafe is now an Indian restaurant.

[Wendax]

Times they are a changin....

[Allan L]

As I said, I was there in October 1986, and here is my photo of the corner (taken against the sun so poor quality) in roughly the same alignment as the OP. The second, much as Serra's No 9, shows the beginning of the straight they were turning into with the Croix d'Or on the right.

[grobmotorix]

A rare 1922 photo:

[grobmotorix]

Another 1922 photo:

[Carnut]

From the days before they started to fit round wheels to cars..!

[grobmotorix]

 

[Allan L]

From the days before they started to fit round wheels to cars..!

They went better with wheels leaning forward, y'know.

Good job that focal plane shutters moved downwards as photos of speeding cars leaning backards wouldn't have been right!

[grobmotorix]

Some tried to use those elliptical wheels still in the 1940´s...

[grobmotorix]

A nice 1922 illustration of the Ballot:

[grobmotorix]

And a fine 1922 detail shot with its driver Foresti:

[grobmotorix]

And a nice front detail shot without the hood: