The 1904 Gordon Bennet course was laid out in the German Taunus mountains, round about the Emperor’s summer residence in Homburg. Large grandstands were built, lying oppossite to each other, through which the cars drove, as if it was in a Roman Colloseum. The race ran over four long laps of each about 132 km, totalling the distance to some 527 km. Participating were 18 starters from 6 countries; France, Germany, Great-Britain Italy, Austria and Belgium each with 3 cars. The last of the four laps was really thrilling. Leon Théry in Richard-Brasier and Camille Jenatzy in Mercedes both were the runners of that day. Finally, Théry won in a totalling time of just a bit under six hours. Jenatzy was second at about some eleven minutes later; so about 3% of time in arrears. Théry and Mr. Brasier, driver-winner and designer-winner, were invited in the emperor’s lodge and the enthusiastic German Kaiser Wilhelm directly wrote a congratulation telegraph to Mr. Brasier. A fine German-French understanding. Finally, the Cup was back in France! Finalement, la Coupe revient en France!