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===== South America =====
In countries where there was no shortage of demanding roads across remote terrain, other events sprang up. In South America, the biggest of these took the form of long distance city to city races, each around {{convert|5000|to|6000|mi|km}}, divided into daily legs. The first was the ''Gran Premio del Norte'' of 1940, run from [[Buenos Aires]] to [[Lima]] and back; it was won by [[Juan Manuel Fangio]] in a much modified [[Chevrolet]] [[coupé]].<ref>Fangio, Juan Manuel, with Carozzo, Roberto. ''Fangio: My Racing Life'' (Patrick Stephens Ltd, 1990), p.50.</ref> This event was repeated in 1947, and in 1948 an even more ambitious one was held, the ''Gran Premio de la América del Sur'' from Buenos Aires to [[Caracas]], [[Venezuela]]—Fangio had an accident in which his co-driver was killed.<ref>Fangio and Carozzo, p.92</ref> Then in 1950 came the fast and dangerous [[Carrera Panamericana]], a {{convert|1911|mi|km|adj=on}} road race in stages across Mexico to celebrate the opening of the asphalt highway between the [[Guatemala]] and United States borders, which ran until 1954.<ref>Murphy, Daryl E: "Carrera Panamericana: History of the Mexican Road Race, 1950-54", page 12. iUniverse Inc.,2nd edition 2008.</ref> All these events fell victim to the cost – financial, social and environmental – of putting them on in an increasingly complex and developed world, although smaller road races continued long after, and a few still do in countries like [[Bolivia]].