Paul Zuccarelli

For our purposes here, it makes them highly fun guys to root for, but in the highly stratified professional world of engineering at that time, these guys were viewed as grease monkeys who got to play with the company toys on the weekends.

Their names were Jules Gou, Paolo Zuccarelli, And George Boyle, these three men effectively made up the Peugeot factory racing team, and they were doing their racing in a category of competition called voiturette racing, which was kind of like miniature small horsepower cars.

They weren't go-karts or anything.

They were full-size automobiles, but they were very restricted in displacement, and they were...

Some places call him a mechanical engineer and one of the driving forces behind the engine and the entire car that would change the course of history.

There's another group of people that call him an industrialist thief who arrived at Peugeot with ideas and concepts he had tucked under his arm, kind of on the way working for other places.

There's also the concept that Paolo Zuccarelli, who had worked for Espano Suiza as a mechanic and racer, had actually made off with some of their ideas and worked with Ernest and the boys to beat his old employer to the punch as far as employing those ideas.

No proof of any of this.