In 1901, for the second event, the race had individual prizes for the four separate classes of entrants: The French Grand Prix was held at Pau in 1930.

In 1938, the Pau Grand Prix was the scene of a symbolic duel between French René Dreyfus (Delahaye) and the German Rudolf Caracciola (Mercedes-Benz).

The event took place regularly with a race almost every year, except during World War II, but returned to the calendar in 1947.

In 1948, the young Nello Pagani won, defeating many of the famous drivers of the time, such as Raymond Sommer, Philippe Etancelin and Jean-Pierre Wimille.

He started from pole position as in the previous year, but also achieved the fastest lap and gained victory.

His win was a result of a duel with Ferrari driver Maurice Trintignant at a time when many French manufacturers were no longer present at the GP.

On 11 April 1955, the Italian Mario Alborghetti died in a racing accident, the Maserati driver apparently confused his pedals after being distracted and crashed against some hay bales.

During this period, several former and future world champions also raced at the event: Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart, Jack Brabham, Denny Hulme, and Emerson Fittipaldi.

In 1973, the event was threatened by problems with the homologation of the circuit, it was quickly brought up to standard by the personal intervention of the Mayor André Labarrère (who had been in office since 1971).

[7] In 1989, Jean Alesi took his first victory after a turbulent start (the race was restarted four times because of successive problems on the grid, and a spectacular crash).

[citation needed] In 1994, French driver Nicolas Leboissetier had a spectacular accident at the Virage de la gare ("train station corner"), reviving the climate of tension that followed the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at Imola during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.

In 2009, after a number of incidents on the opening lap of the second race, the decision was made to deploy the safety car.

Franz Engstler, leading the race at the time, was in the process of slowing down when he came around the first corner and had a heavy collision with the safety car which was nearly stopped in the middle of the track.

In addition, the only French driver, Tom Dillmann, retired on the fourth lap of the race, which was won by the German Marco Wittmann.

The category included mostly French drivers such as Soheil Ayari, Franck Lagorce and Olivier Panis.

The Italian Raffaele Marciello won the Grand Prix after dominating qualifying and the race sprint.

At the Whit Monday holiday, an historical tradition of Pau Grand Prix, the headliner should have been the British Formula Three Championship.

But this series, with a lot of concurrence with the FIA Formula 3 European Championship, was forced to reduce its calendar to 4 events and so cancelled many rounds including Pau.

At the end of January 2013, the organisers announced that Sébastien Loeb and Jacques Villeneuve would be present in Pau in the Mitjet 2L category.

The outright unofficial all-time track record is 1:08.600, set by Andrea Montermini in a Reynard 92D, during qualifying for the 1992 Pau Grand Prix.