Finishing in Paris after nearly 10,000 miles, from which city did racers begin the first long distance car rally in 1907?
Peking to Paris Peking to Paris The Peking to Paris motor race was an automobile race, originally held in 1907, between Peking (now Beijing), then Qing China and Paris, France, a distance of . The idea for the race came from a challenge published in the Paris newspaper Le Matin on 31 January 1907, reading: The race started from the French embassy in Peking on 10 June 1907. The winner Prince Scipione Borghese arrived in Paris on 10 August 1907. There were forty entrants in the race, but only five teams ended up going ahead with shipping the cars to Peking. The race
1992 Paris–Cape Town Rally 1992 Paris–Cape Town Rally The 1992 Paris-Cape Town Rally was the 14th running of the Dakar Rally event with a unique routing. The rally had a long route, starting from Paris, France, on 23 December 1991 and finishing at Cape Town, South Africa, on 16 January 1992. The route passed through Libya, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Angola, and Namibia. Hubert Auriol won the car category to go with his two victories in the motorcycle category. Stephane Peterhansel won the motorcycle category for the second year in succession. The fastest truck in common car-truck