ESTABLISHED 1895
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Crazy paving race 19 September 1930
TWO NEW CAR races were initiated by the French in the early-1920s as tests of endurance. One, run over 24 hours on roads outside Le Mans, would become perhaps the most famous race of all. The other, held near Lille, quickly faded into historical obscurity – not because it was ‘just another race’, as you might guess, but because it was… well, quite barmy.