Tour Auto 2000

Two hundred drivers from some 20 nations will blast down France’s greatest roads on the Tour Auto 2000, the famed recreation of the Tour de France, which starts in Paris on April 11, and visits the Montlhéry, Dijon, Magny-Cours, Albi and Nogaro race circuits during an epic five-day thrash to Biarritz on the Atlantic coast, just north of Spain.

Jean-Claude Andruet, the three times winner of the original Tour de France makes his historic debut in Francois Degand’s Ligier JS2 coupe, the same car which finished second on the 1974 Tour, and raced at Le Mans in both in ’72 and ’75. Legendary Saab rally man, Erik Carlsson, will be driving in his 1963 Monte Carlo Rally-winning Saab 96, while his brother-in-law Sir Stirling Moss (MGB) is also named as a competitor.