CZECHOSLOVAKIA: START OF MONTE CARLO RALLY

Record ID: 214855

  • Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: START OF MONTE CARLO RALLY
  • Date: 18th January 1966
  • Summary: No available shotlist Initials GEM/VS/SA SPORT: CAR RACING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 2nd February 1966 12:00
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  • Location: PRAGUE AND BRNO, CZECHOSLOVAKIA
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  • Country: Czech Republic Czechoslovakia
  • Reuters ID: LVAE21QV0UDFC57AGF07IVZ775HE
  • Story Text: FIRST TO REACH THE TARGET POINT OF THIS STAGE WAS CAR NUMBER 194, CREW LUCIUS VAN DEN BERGH AND MATHIEU HENDRIKS OF HOLLAND. THEIR CAR WAS A PORSCHE 912.

    PARKED IN FRONT OF THE AUTOMOBILE CLUB BUILDING ARE CARS OF SOME OF THE TOP COMPETITORS. No. 197 IS A CITROEN DS 21 DRIVEN BY LUCIEN BIANCHI OF BELGIUM. No. 217 IS SOBIESLAW ZASADA OF POLAND AND HIS co-DRIVER WEDRYCHOWSKI, IN A HEAVY-DUTY ROVER 200. IN PREVIOUS RALLYS ZASADA HAS DRIVED A LIGHT STEYER-PUCH CAR. CAR No. 218, PARKING BESIDE No. 217, IS ASETYER-PUCH DRIVEN BY SCHORN AND JANGER OF AUSTRIA. No. 230 IS PADDY HOPKIRK AND HENRY LINDON OF GREAT BRITAIN IN A BMC MINI-COOPER. CARLSSON DID NOT PASS THROUGH PRAGUE, AND HOPKIRK BECAME THE CENTRE OF ATTENTION.

    No. 190, A CITROEN DRIVED BY LAROCHE AND COUDRY WAS FIRST TO REACH THE CHECKPOINT AT BRNO. NEXT WAS ZASADA, CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY HOPKIRK. A TOTAL OF 35 CARS PASSED THIS CHECKPOINT ON THEIR WAY TO VIENNA.
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