The Great Auto Race of 1908 went from NYC to Paris by way of the Pacific Ocean. What was the name of the automobile that won the race?

The winner of the Great Auto Race of 1908 was the American Thomas Flyer. The car was a 1907 Thomas Model 36 which was dubbed the Thomas Flyer; it featured a 60 horsepower 4 cylinder engine, weighed over 5,000 pounds loaded, and had a top speed of about 60 mph. There were six teams that entered the race from four different countries; France, Germany, Italy, and the U.S. France was represented by three automobiles which were the De Dion-Bouton, the Motobloc, and the Sizaire-Naudin. The Protos team represented Germany, the Zust representing Italy, and the Thomas Flyer represented the U.S. None of the teams representing France ever finished the race while the other three made the trek. The Race concluded in Paris after 169 days after the participants traveled approximately 22,000 miles. The Race route was originally planned to go all the way through Alaska to Russia by way of the Berring Strait but conditions prohibited the cars from traversing the unforgiving terrain. The cars traveled by ship from Valdez, AK to Japan and then onto Siberia. Driving from New York to San Francisco took a grueling 41 days. The German Protos actually finished four days prior to the Flyer but were penalized 30 days because they never reached Alaska and shipped their automobile part of the way by rail car. Visit the website listed below and research this interesting event involving early automotive technology. You can also visit the actual Thomas Flyer in the National Automobile Museum in Reno, NV.