SEVERE CAR TRIAL.
ROCKY ALPINE TRACKS.
RACING THROUGH EUROPE. (United Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, 9ugust 8. • On the completion at Aix les Bains of the.first stage of the International Alpine motor-car trial, which began from . Nice yesterday, the competitors agreed that the course had been the most trying ever experienced in this event. Recent heavy storms had turned many of the mountain .roads into rockstrewn tracks. The race follows difficult mountain routes through France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland, and the drivers will get little rest before reaching thengoal on Sunday. ' There were many mechanical casualties yesterday, but all of the forty-hve British cars entered reached Aix saie- " To-day's route of about 300 miles is from Aix to Interlaken over the Great and Littlo St. Bernard passes and the Col Dupillon.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 256, 10 August 1934, Page 5
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