Rally Monte Carlo 1949 - A complicated calculation formula without sporting value
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The 1949 Monte Carlo Rally no longer takes place as a rally, but instead runs over a 3,000 km course. The rally is won by the pre-war winners Trévoux/Lesurque.
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Four years have passed since the end of the Second World War. Now the Automobile Club de Monaco is organizing the first post-war rally. Over 200 teams register. Nobody expected this success. Old cars - carefully hidden away during the war - are made roadworthy again and set off for Monaco. Many well-known drivers want to indulge their passion again: Healey, Lahaye, Quatresous, Chiron, the women Molander and Simons and Gatsonides also make their presence felt. But the first post-war rally is no longer a rally in the former sense. The borders in the east are closed. The new rulers are not interested in a capitalist rally. The adventurous roads no longer make the headlines; at most, teams of oxen and horses make their way through the snow and mud - maybe a Dnebr with a sidecar here and there. So a 3,096-kilometer course starting in Monaco and ending in Monaco is devised. The plan is still to ride non-stop for three days and three nights. Over the French Maritime Alps, through Switzerland, into Alsace, to Luxembourg, Amsterdam and back to Monaco via Brussels, Paris and Lyon. And the 50 km/h average must be maintained everywhere.
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