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"On January 31, 1907, French newspaper Le Matin issued a challenge: “Is there anyone who will undertake to travel this summer from Paris to Peking by automobile?” Nearly 9,000 miles and 60 days later Prince Borghese, an Italian nobleman, crossed the finish line in his machine called the Itala. Two French autos, both DeDions, followed close behind. This event set the stage for The Greatest Auto Race on Earth and unknowingly precipitated a chain of events that shaped the world. A new breed of adventurers began to evolve. Newspapers quickly realized that competition sells newspapers. Automobile manufacturers saw a direct relationship between doing well in contests and sales of their product. Presidents and leaders of countries understood the value of such spectacles as well – feeding everyman’s hunger for competition and quenching their thirst for patriotism. So on February 12, 1908, a hush fell on the 250,000 people gathered at Times Square. President Roosevelt congratulated the seventeen men who filled the six competing cars and said “I like people who do something, not the good safe man who stays at home.” The pistol cracked, igniting the greatest automobile contest of all time – New York to Paris. Germany, Italy, France and America. Each country had an entry. This was an event so impressive that it achieved as much notoriety as the Olympic Games. People along the way held celebrations, toasts and lined the route everywhere, cheering and urging the drivers on. New York City school trustees successfully lobbied for the race to be included in the public school’s curriculum, for the purpose of increasing student’s interest in geography. Preachers took the race to a higher level, thumping out biblical interpretations every Sunday. The New York Times posted a map in a window along Times Square that showed the location of each car at any given time. The world was watching. Sponsored by Le Matin and The New York Times, the race was intended to test machines, but perhaps it was more a test of wills. What drove these men to take six months out of their lives and embark on a journey that no one at that time had ever attempted – and in the middle of winter? Their only prize was to be a trophy. The Greatest Auto Race on Earth is a 2 x part documentary series that explores this question, revealing the men behind the machines and re-creating exciting moments in the auto race to end all auto races. Four cars made it across America and over to Vladivostock. Replicas of each will be built for the purpose of dramatizing critical events that took place along the way." http://www.thegreatestautorace.com/index.html -- Last edit: 2007-04-30 11:59:56 |
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