Talk:Paris–Rouen (motor race)

In the gallery
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? TREKphiler  any time you're ready, Uhura  09:12, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * in addition, all the sketches and photos are in the common directory.--Camulogene77 (talk) 19:44, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 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)

Prisoner of gravity
Clarification of what the "gravity" power source is would be helpful... TREKphiler  any time you're ready, Uhura  14:52, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * 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)

Anglophone
Why is anglophone presented in quotes? Is it meant ironically? Kortoso (talk) 18:08, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

De Bourmont
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)

"ce ne sera pas une course"
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)


 * :Unless I hear to the contrary, I'm going to tweak that very soon . . . Awien (talk) 22:33, 21 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Copied and pasted here:
 * 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]
 * Awien (talk) 00:03, 22 July 2016 (UTC)