Can you breifly describe the Great Race?

Answer 1

You have to be more specific in what Great Race your referring to, the Derby, the Indy 500, "What venue".

The Iditarod has been called "The Last Great Race on Earth" and it got its start in 1973 with a total winning purse of $25,000 US Dollars (USD).

* http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-iditarod.htm* Who_won_the_great_race_to_the_south_pole(EXCERPT)

New York to Paris event is rescheduled for April 2009 as part of an exciting menu of automotive events Great Race Sports has announced that the milestone event from New York to Paris has been rescheduled for April 25, 2009 after being postponed from its original starting date this May. The commemorative re-run of the 1908 New York-to-Paris "Great Race" is widely considered to be one of the most remarkable automotive adventures of the 20th century, an automobile race from New York to Paris before the advent of today's modern highways and gas stations. * http://www.greatrace.com/newsite/

Answer 2

The great race to Antarctica began in 1910. It was lead by Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott. Amundsen won by two weeks.