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That gave the win to the Americans and driver George Schuster, the only American to travel the full distance from New York to Paris. [3] The winning margin was 26 days, still the largest winning margin in any motorsport event ever. The Italians arrived later, in September 1908.
7 mar 2012 · Books: Julie M. Fenster, Race of the Century: The Heroic True Story of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race. New York: Crown, 2005; Dermot Cole: Hard Driving: The 1908 Auto Race from New York to ...
The torturous New York to Paris Race route: NYC, Albany, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Valdez Alaska, Japan, Vladivostok, Omsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Berlin and finally Paris. The Thomas Flyer Team covered three continents and over 22,000 miles in 169 days.
21 lut 2022 · Lot number 1829 was listed simply as the “Famous New York to Paris Racer.” The winning Thomas Flyer is on display in Reno, Nevada, at the National Automobile Museum, alongside the trophy. The race was of international interest with daily front page coverage by The New York Times (a cosponsor of the race with the Parisian newspaper Le Matin).
1908 - 2018. Times Square, New York City February 12,1908 with over 250,000 cheering the start of a race to circle the globe from New York to Paris by auto! It would become the longest automobile competition in history, often with no roads & during a bitter cold winter. The Around the World Auto Race would cover 22,000 miles in 169 days!
12 lut 2013 · The race, from New York to Paris, ran through three continents over 22,000 miles in 169 days.
The Buffalo, NY built Thomas Flyer, driven most of the race by mechanic and Buffalo native George Schuster, won in an elapsed time of 169 days, traveling 13,341 miles by land. This Car Matters: Thomas Flyer, winner of the New York to Paris Race.
