French tour to challenge racers
The route for Tour Auto Optic 2000 will take crews from Paris to a finish on the north coast of France after five days of races and closed road rally stages.
Tour Auto is Europe’s biggest race and rally tour for period cars and regularly attracts an entry of 200 cars to the start at the Grand Palais in Paris on Monday April 29. The event already has over 160 entries from cars of the type that took part in the original Tour de France between 1951 and 1973.
Races at Dijon-prenois, Magny Cours, Charade and Le Mans Bugatti will be supplemented by 10 special stages before the finish on Saturday May 4 at Deauville.