1917 June - (2nd) Catalonian Circuit

6th - 10th June 1917

1st Stage: Barcelona to Vallfogona 158km.

2nd Stage: Vallfogona to Seo de Urgell 144km - (where people watched from balconies and threw confetti into the streets)

Final stages: Seo to Puigcerda, Olot, Palafrugell, Caldas de Malavella, Manresa and Barcelona.

Total 835 km

36 cars registered ... 26 turned up and Mariano Rojas' 'Singer' which left after an hour for some reason (I haven't translated it).

First place wins Cup of Honour.

First Category: between 1100cc and 2300cc

• 1. (No.25) Alfonso Llobet (Elizalde II) - 410 points

  2. Mr Pujada and Mr Llobet (Elizalde I) - 407pts (Wins: Vichy Catalan Cup - best car in Olot-Caldas stage in First Category)

  3. Jose Banus (Fiat) - 379pts

  4. Joaquin Vivo (De Dion-Bouton) - 354 points

  5. Emilio Soler (Hispano-Suiza II) - 237 points

  6. Jose Valls Taberner (Scripps-Booth)

Second Category: 2300cc and above

• 1. (No.7) Julio Marial (Hispano Suiza I) - 349 points(err? 449?) (Wins Cervello Cup: best car in first stage)

  2. (No.2) Jose Freixa (Lancia) - 349 points(err?) (Wins: Attraction of Outsiders Cup: best car from those who live outside of Barcelona (Freixa is from Terrassa))

  3. (No.30) Eusebio Bertrand y Serra (Stutz I) - 389 points (Wins: Vilajuiga Water Prize - best car overall greater than 5 litres)

  4. (No.20) Francisco S. Abadal (Abadal-Buick III) 389pts (Wins: Red Room Cup - best car in final stage)

  5. Salvador Elizalde (Elizalde III) - 388 pts

  6. Pascual Sogas (Abadal-Buick IV) - 388 pts

  7. Mr F. O. Rissmann (King) - 387 pts

  8. Juan Llusa (Chevrolet II) - 386 pts

  9. Marc L'Huillier (Elizalde IV) - 384 pts

  10. Carlos Llusa (Chevrolet I) - 379 pts

  11. Luis Fargas (Abadal-Buick VI) - 378 pts

  12. Rafael Bianchi (Abadal-Buick II) - 376 pts

  13. F. A. Puig (Maxwell) - 374 pts

  14. Enrique Casanovas (Stutz II) - 370 pts

  15. Santiago Soler Mata (Hispano-Suiza III) - 344 pts

  16. Mariano Rojas (Singer) - 300 pts

  17. Isidro Maristany (Abadal-Buick V) - 299 pts

  18. (No.24) Eloy Pomes (Abadal-Buick VII) - 272 pts (Wins: Imperial Water Cup - best car in Olot-Caldas stage in Second Category)

  19. Felipe Batllo (Espanya) - 192 pts

  20. Pedro Sampere (Mitchell) - 39 pts

These results are from the Madrid Post (21st June 1917) and the Gran Vida (at the Spanish National Library

(for this race in particular copy this to your browser (on one line from http to pdf) and go to page 12 in the newspaper...)

http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/datos1/numeros/internet/Madrid/Madrid-sport%20(Madrid)/1917/191706/19170621/19170621_00000.pdf

Another paper - Gran Vida - has a longer article and pictures of the winning Elizalde car... (page 11-13)

http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/datos1/numeros/internet/Madrid/Gran%20vida/1917/191706/19170601/19170601_00000.pdf