When motorsport was on the program for the 1936 Berlin Olympics

The enthusiasm generated by the passage of the Paris-Toulouse-Paris race on the sidelines of the 1900 Olympic Games fizzled out. Seeing the echo of the automobile events of these second Olympic Games, the Games of the IV Olympiad, initially awarded to Rome for 1908, provided many motor sports competitions. Italy was then a country fond of road tests (Count Florio launched the Targa Florio in Sicily in 1906), allowing manufacturers from the north of the Boot to highlight their technical advances (Itala, Fiat, Alfa Romeo). But a natural event disrupts this intention. The eruption of Vesuvius overlooking Naples, between April 4 and 21, 1906, caused chaos, several hundred deaths and hundreds of thousands of displaced people. Unable to carry out the reconstruction of the Campania region and the Roman Olympic Games at the same time, Italy skipped the sporting event. Shortly after, London offered to host the Olympics. The British capital initially took over the sports package planned in Rome, but dropped motorsport along the way, probably for practical reasons. This failed act is the starting point of a period of twenty-eight years without the slightest mention of the automobile in the Olympic disciplines. Until the controversial Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936.

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