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photograph - from the nimble Triumph TR2’s<br />
to the powerful Ford GT 40’s, the Tomaso<br />
Pantera or the Ligier, without forgetting the<br />
Ford Mustangs, the Aston Martin DB4’s, the<br />
DS Citroëns, the Jaguar XK’s and Type E’s, the<br />
Austin Healeys or the Alfa Romeos, and the<br />
many different Porsche or Ferrari models.<br />
From Paris to Nice passing through Beaune,<br />
Aix-les-Bains, Clermont-Ferrand and Nîmes,<br />
the Tour Auto cuts through central France like<br />
a sword. If on the open road the drivers must<br />
be willing to accept a compromise between<br />
their competitive desire to win the race, and<br />
the rules of road safety, the tests conducted on<br />
roads that are closed to ordinary traffic, and<br />
on special circuits give them plenty of opportunity<br />
to show their ever bigger, and more<br />
enthusiastic audience, what they and their cars<br />
are capable of.<br />
The differences in engine performance of the<br />
cars, largely determined by their year of<br />
construction, and category, justifies the existence<br />
of a triple league table, each of which has<br />
distinct levels. The “competition” category is<br />
based on speed – the results of 4 races held on<br />
a circuit are added to those obtained in spe-<br />
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