Past threads have mentioned racing in Heliopolis in Egypt in 1947. However, I have uncovered evidence (in a couple of newspapers in Utah, of all places) that there was an automobile race there on the 1st March 1908. The short comment is as follows: At the first automobile race held in Egypt, at Heliopolis, on March 1, a policeman and two spectators were killed and fourteen persons were injured.

Can anybody shed any more light on this event? Who took part?