A Race in 1907.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 7, 1 May 1907, Page 260

A Race in 1907.

*» The Chambre Syndicale de I' Automobile has decided that a race is to be organised in France next year. Opinion has been so much divided upon the advisability of holding a race, not so much on account of the value, or otherwise, of such a contest to the industry, as of the huge expense of organisation, that the A.C.F. determined to leave the matter in the hands of the maker's association, and to promote the race if the manufacturers felt that it was necessary, and would suggest the ways and means of carrying it into effect. As the Chambre Syndicale approves of the principle of a race, it may be taken for granted that one will be organised. As to the question of ways and means the maker's association recommends a permanent small circuit which will be available for one race every year. It is probable that this circuit will be selected in some district offering a sufficient variety of road and gradient to test the cars as much as possible, and as the race will always be in one place over a small circuit, the cost of organisation will be comparatively small. The Chambre Syndicale has not yet come to a decision upon the point of whether there is to be any change in the racing regulations, notably in fixing a limit of cylinder capacity, but as some such restriction has become an absolute necessity, if racing is to be of any value to the world, there is no doubt that something of the kind will be adopted.