International Alpine Trial
The International Alpine Trial was a "Time-Speed-Distance" motor sport rally held annually between 1928 and 1936. It was one of the earliest international motorsport event of its kind and covered a distance of approximately 2,000 kilometers over an Alpine route, usually including Italy, France, Switzerland and, till 1933, Austria and Germany.
History
The event took place eight times between 1928 and 1936, over seven different routes.- No trial was organised in 1930. The Wall Street crash in October 1929 had been accompanied by bank collapses and business closures across Europe. The "International Alpine Trial" was not the only sporting event that failed to take place in 1930.
- The 1935 event was cancelled because of the rapidly deteriorating political situation, notably between France and Italy. Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia had led to League of Nations sanctions against Italy. On the northern side of the Alps, the German government had for its own reasons recently introduced transit and currency restrictions which made it impractical to include Germany in the route.