Rallye

A Paris commercial court on Thursday placed Rallye, the parent company of Casino, under protection from its creditors for at least six months.

Rallye Deutschland on August 22-25 is effectively three rallies in one on German asphalt: twisting roads through Mosel vineyards, the notoriously tough Baumholder military area and fast country lanes of Saarland.

I met the Rallye’s founder, Viviane Zaniroli, at Rétromobile in Paris in 2015.

In ‘28, she won the Bordeaux Grand Prix behind the wheel of a Sima-Violet cyclecar, followed quickly by the Rallye Féminin in Montlhéry—because, yes, this was the era when it was rare to find a woman behind the wheel of a man’s race.

Porsche is handing this concept over to none other than Romain Dumas, recent King of Pikes Peak, to use as a course car for the Rallye Deutschland later this month.

In 1979, a young Frenchman, Thierry Sabine, founded an institution when he organised the first "rallye-raid" from Paris to Dakar, in Senegal, the event now called the Dakar Rally.

The ACM made their first foray into motorsport by holding the Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo in 1911.