1908 New York to Paris Race

Map of the route
Cars lined up for the start: De Dion-Bouton (in front), Protos, Motobloc
De Dion-Bouton car at Utica
The Sizaire-Naudin of Pons, Deschamps and Berlhe
Germans in Protos car 1908 New York to Paris Race
The 1906 Züst which took third place in the 1908 Race Around the World.
The race winners

The 1908 New York to Paris Race was an automobile competition consisting of drivers attempting to travel from New York to Paris. This was a considerable challenge given the state of automobile technology and road infrastructure at the time. Only three of six contestants completed the course. The winner was the American team, driving a 1907 Thomas Flyer.

In 1907 the Peking to Paris automobile race had inspired an even bolder test of these new machines. The following year the course would be from New York City, USA, to Paris, France, with a planned 150-mile (240 km) ship passage from Nome, Alaska, across the Bering Strait to East Cape, Siberia.[1]

  1. ^ London Daily Mail, 1908.