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The Peking to Paris motor race was an automobile race, originally held in 1907, between Peking, then Qing China and Paris, France, a distance of 14,994 kilometres.
Hazards of the road: Borghese & Barzini's Itala having fallen through a bridge
The Itala being pulled across unnavigable terrain
The sculpture of Borghese's Itala in Kirov, Russia
Prince Luigi Marcantonio Francesco Rodolfo Scipione Borghese, commonly known as Scipione Borghese, was an Italian aristocrat, industrialist, politician, explorer, mountain climber and racing driver be
Peking to Paris
…Paris newspaper Le Matin on 31 January 1907, reading: Eventually the race started from the French embassy in Peking on 10 June 1907. The winner, Prince Scipione Borghese, arrived in Paris on 10 August 1907. There were forty entrants in the race, but only five teams ended up going ahead with shipping the cars to Peking…
Borghese (left), wearing the Ström Paris "Parapluie du Chauffeur", and Barzini (right) in the 1907 Peking to Paris race.
The Itala which won the 1907 Peking to Paris race