A fact from Paris–Rouen (motor race) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 July 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in 1894 Georges Lemaître won the world's first competitive motor race by driving from Paris to Rouen at 19 km/h (12 mph)?
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Latest comment: 9 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion
While I appreciate the drawings, I'm not sure the gallery is adding much that's worthwhile. Can it be deleted without losing a lot? TREKphilerany time you're ready, Uhura 09:12, 1 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
in addition, all the sketches and photos are in the common directory.--Camulogene77 (talk) 19:44, 25 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
It re-creates the ambiance of the event and the time in a single compact space, rather than showing glossy modern pictures. The Commons point could apply to almost every picture in every article on wiki - it's what commons is. Chienlit (talk) 18:17, 29 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
If only somebody knew they would be billionaires for all eternity. Instead we all languish at the bottom of the mountain and ridicule Sisyphus.Chienlit (talk) 18:11, 29 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
This is an impressive article. For the De Bourmont car, I found a note that it was a light steamer, not a petrol car (Richard J. Evans: Steam Cars (Shire Album), Shire Publications Ltd (1985) ISBN-10 0852637748 and ISBN-13 978-0852637746, p. 15).--Chief tin cloud (talk) 09:06, 23 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 7 years ago3 comments1 person in discussion
This quote is incomplete and therefore not quite accurate. What the paper actually said was "Bien entendu ce ne sera pas une course folle de trente ou quarante machines à la fois roulant à toute vitesse sur quelque route nationale" (of course it won't be a mad race of thirty or forty machines at once driving at top speed on some highway), before going on to explain that it was to be a "concours par élimination". So it was to be a race, just one that whose participants were to be selected on the basis of a number of heats. Might be good to tweak that wording before tomorrow's appearance on main page, Cheers, Awien (talk) 13:02, 21 July 2016 (UTC)Reply
Chienlit: :Camulogene77:Unless I hear to the contrary, I'm going to tweak that very soon . . . Awien (talk) 22:33, 21 July 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Some anglophone sources call it a race, a rally or a trial, and it is sometimes described as the world's first competitive motor race although the initial announcement stated that "it will not be a race".[1][Notes 1]
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