Jules Goux of Valentigney, France, won the 1913 Indianapolis 500 Mile Race in a manner that today would get him arrested. According to numerous press accounts of the race, Goux (pronounced: Goo) drank either wine or champagne, all through the race. By the time he took the checkered flag he'd consumed six pints.

He started early, during his first pit stop. Goux, who spoke no English, came in for a tire change and reportedly said: "Donnes moi une bouteille de vin, our je suis fini," which means: "Fetch me a pint of wine, or I'm done."

His pit crew, despite being French (the car was a French-built Peugeot), had no wine on hand, so crewmen "were sent to the grand stand in search" of some, the Star reported May 31, 1913. One of the searchers "happened on a party of millionaires from Pittsburgh" who "furnished the excited pitman with half a dozen (small bottles) containing the most select vintage of la belle France.

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"Jules saw him coming and, snatching a bottle from him as he reached the track, cracked the neck of the bottle on the retaining wall and permitted its contents to trickle down his throat, whetting his tonsils as it went.

"Then back into his seat he leaped."

The race lasted more than six hours. Goux dominated it. He led more than half the laps and finished 13 minutes ahead of second place.

In the hubub of the victory celebration, as Goux was mobbed by sportswriters, "his first request was for a bottle of wine," the Star reported.

That would have made seven bottles.

Goux was 28. He lived to be 79.

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