Marcel Renault
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Marcel Renault was a French car racing driver and industrialist, co-founder of the car maker Renault, and the brother of Louis and Fernand Renault.
With Louis and Fernand he jointly founded the Renault make on February 25 1899. He would race the cars from 1900 along with Louis. He died on May 25 1903 after a race the day before in which he was badly injured. This type of race was not organized again until 1927.
After his death, a statue was built in his memory which later would be destroyed by the German attacks during the Second World War.
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