It's a feat.
It took barely six months to erect a temple of speed on the outskirts of Paris.
A hundred years later, the oval, appearing out of nowhere, still emerges around a forest from the air, approaching Orly airport.
Following the First World War, France did not have enough permanent circuits, nor a speed ring on which manufacturers could test their vehicles at very high speed.
A shame for a country which can boast of being at the origin of the automobile and the first automobile sporting events - the Paris-Bordeaux-Paris took place in 1895, the Gordon Bennett Cup accompanied the beginnings of the 20th century and the Automobile Club de France organized with the Automobile Club de l'Ouest the first grand prix in history on June 26, 1906, on a circuit in Sarthe.
It seems that the victory of Jules Goux's Peugeot at the 1913 Indianapolis 500 acted as a detonator.
The American ring has existed since 1909. That of Brooklands in England since 1907, that of Avus Berlin in Germany since 1921, that of Monza in Italy since 1922. And France in all this?…
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