Great Brunanter Race

The Great Brunanter Race was a famed early automobile race held in Brunant in August 1902. Sixteen cars took off, in the race that left Koningstad, to Nieuw Helmond, and then over the mountains via the Cornel Passand Cornel through Niesburg back to Koningstad.

History and antecedents
The first recorded race was a Koningstad-Brezonde-Cape Cross-Koningstad race which was held in April 1901; six cars started and one finished, an 1899 De Dion. According to De Waarheid, it was a meeting of every automobile in the country. The relative failure of this race (only the De Dion-Bouton made it to Cape Cross) promped a second, larger, more successful race.