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Race Across the World: The incredible story of the world`s greatest road race – the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon

In 1968, ninety-eight competitors stormed out of London on the world`s greatest automotive adventure, the London to Sydney Marathon, the most ambitious and epic car race ever staged. Four weeks later they arrived in Sydney-or at least half of them did. The others lay in ruin along its 10,000-mile route. Unimaginable now in either concept or execution, the marathon captured the rapt attention of the countries through which it passed, and of the world, as it created front-page news. It was more than a car race, more than a rally, more than the trials that opened up outback Australia only a decade before: it was the world`s most gruelling test of driver and vehicle.For Australians, the race became a focal point of the rivalry between local car-manufacturing

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