Having made his name for himself in aviation when WW1 ended, Gabriel Voisin diversified into the automobile industry and some truly beautiful road cars through the 20s and 30s.
In 1922 he won the Grand Prix de Tourisme C3 touring bodied road car. The organisers were angered by Voisin’s rather liberal interpretation of the rules and banned Voisin from the 1923 race. Voisin responsed by designing an entirely new racing car, the C6 Laboratoire.