Monday, August 13, 2018

So, racing in parking garages was thought to be an import thing, something these damn kids do since Fast and Furious, with Hondas and Nissans... how quaint. It's been at least 91 years since some Parisian hooligans were drifting around the corners and up the ramps, so, it's nothing new.



Way back in 1927!

Banville's symbol race where several thousand people in Paris went racing in a new and gigantic garage in the neighborhood, eight floors high and three or four floors below ground, all accessed by  ramps.

Spectators hung out in the turns and at each landing, and also on the steps of the stairs and in the offices that give it an elegant feel of a major sporting event.

 At the top, in a spacious tennis court were tables of cakes, small ovens, and champagne were waiting for guests.

The meeting, which was attended by Divo, Seneschal, Wagner, Boillot, Robert Benoist, Guyot Lagache, Charavel, Thomas, Rovin and Dauvergne.  Benoist was the initiator and organizer of this meeting that included motorcycles, cyclecars, racing cars and Bugatti, Delage, Amilcar, Seneschal, Talbot, Peugeot, etc.,

It ended, without incident or accident. At the race was only one closed car, the winner of the recent Monte Carlo rally.  27.02.1927






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