Léonce Girardot

Léonce Girardot (30 April 1864 – 7 September 1922) was a French racing driver.

He drove for Panhard & Levassor, the leading brand of this era and his strongest competitors were his teammates Fernand Charron and René de Knyff.

In 1901, he won the Gordon Bennett Trophy race, although he was the only one who finished from the field of three cars that entered.

[1] These cars proved unreliable, and it was only at the 1903 Ardennes race he finished, taking second position.

After an accident in the French trials for 1905 Gordon Bennett Cup which he only just survived, he ended his racing career.