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It will be remembered that the club was created exactly on the 26th of August 1890. It is called Vélocipédique Vélocipédique de la Principauté (SVP) and was created by 21 enthusiasts who love bicycles. It will become, in the space of a week, the "Sport Vélocipédique Monégasque (SVM)".An appellation of origin that evolved twenty-seven years later, on August 28, 1907, to become the "Automobile Sport and Vélocipédique de Monaco (SAVM)" on the initiative of President Henri Tairraz, due to the technological advances of Motor vehicles.On October 31, 1909, Alexandre Noghès became President of the SAVM.This was the beginning of a great automobile adventure. As soon as he was elected,he proposed a sporting event that would finally see the light of day two years later, under the impetus of his son Antony, with the organization of the 1st Monaco Automobile Rally held between 21 and 29 January 1911.
Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Vienna and Geneva were the starting cities. At the average of 13,800 km / h, the aviator Henri Rougier, who left Paris at the wheel of a Turcat-Mery 25HP, triumphed before twenty-two other competitors.On the strength of this success and to anchor in the minds of its members that the future of their Association was based more on four wheels propelled by a combustion engine rather than on two wheels driven by the strength of the calves, he had a directory In which the names and addresses of the members, the itineraries of excursions for automobiles. The determination of the leaders of the Automobile and Vélocipédique Sport of Monaco was evident: they were beginning to write the future.The First World War was devastating and the Automobile Sport was dormant. In 1918, the Principality mourned its deceased, several dozen of whom belonged to the Association. During these four years of conflicts and it is easy to understand, the SAVM organized neither sporting event nor friendly outing.By perseverance, President Noghes resumes work and reveals, in January, that the first car week - initiated in June 1914 - will be disputed from 8 to 15 March 1921. The latter, endowed with 35,000 francs Prizes, includes various events for cars and motorcycles, an exhibition and a contest of elegance. As a result of a perspicuous insight, this new event confirmed, to the happy satisfaction of all, that President Noghès and his team were in the right, as to the evolution of the club and its adequacy with the automobile.On March 29, 1925, in the morning, at an extraordinary general meeting of fifty-five SAVM members, President Alexandre Noghes declared that "because of the importance of the Society, it is mandatory to change it The title, and to name it Automobile Club de Monaco "by pointing out that" sport by bicycle tends to become rare and the automobile growing ". The proposal was therefore put to a secret vote and approved by 49 votes to 5, with one abstention. By becoming an ACM, the Association entered a large and strong family, each member of which embodied the automobile adventure at the level of a state. In order for her success to be complete, she had to be admitted to the International Association of Recognized Automobiles Clubs (AIACR), the origin of the current International Automobile Federation (FIA).Antony Noghès, as Commissioner General, was instructed to go to Paris to present the candidacy of the Automobile Club of Monaco. He returned unfortunately disappointed, these gentlemen of the AIACR having considered that the Club organized many sporting events but that these did not take place on the territory Monegasque. At the age of thirty-five, Antony Noghes, wounded in his own self-love, came, with all the enthusiasm of youth, to launch himself a fantastic challenge: to create an automobile race on the national territory, In town.But was not this idea of a speed circuit in the city unattainable?There was indeed this step to climb between the Quai des Etats-Unis and the Quai Albert 1er, and then another walk down the Gazometers. There were also cobblestones and tram rails between La Condamine and the Casino. Antony Noghes weighed the pros and cons for two years. He finally chose to entrust his project to the only people he knew he would get a pertinent and objective opinion: Louis Chiron on the sport plan and Jacques Taffe on the technical level.Then it was above all necessary to persuade the Société des Bains de Mer to participate and to finance the event. His administrator, Mr. René LEON, perceived all the interest of this test and released the necessary funds.No country in the world will have such a circuit! The official announcement of the organization of the Grand Prix was triumphantly received in the Principality of Monaco.
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F1 : Monaco Grand Prix
27 May, Saturday
Monaco , at 09:00 GMT
