International Alpine Trial

Not to be confused with Alpine Rally.
A surviving 1929 Mercedes-Benz SSK reliving the "International Alpine Trial" eighty years on
Matthias Kabel, 2009

The International Alpine Trial ("Coupe Internationale des Alpes") was a "Time-Speed-Distance" motor sport rally held annually (with exceptions) between 1928 and 1936. It was one of the earliest international motorsport event of its kind and covered a distance of approximately 2,000 kilometers over an Alpine route, usually including Italy, France, Switzerland and, till 1933, Austria and Germany.[1]

  1. ^ Pfundner, Martin (2005). Alpine Trials & Rallies: 1910 - 1973. Veloce Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-904788-95-9.