4l Trophy Essay

4l trophy is an international competition where contestant have to go from France to Marrakech with very old cars, a 4l constructed by Renault. This year 1300 team start the competition with the goal to go to Morocco. There are several goals to this competition, the race is one of them, contestant are timed and there is a ranking each day. But there is also a humanitarian goal, each team bring pens and copybooks in their car. Then they give them to an association which is working in the south of the desert in Morocco. Today I want to discuss about this point, 4l trophy claims itself as a humanitarian race, but I don’t agree with that, I think 4l trophy is not at all a humanitarian race. At first I will speak about the low efficiency of the

But it is not efficient, they use 1300 old cars, which use a lot of petrol, to bring some furniture. A real humanitarian action would be to send in one plane all this equipment. It would be less expansive and a real action. I know that 4l trophy don’t claim to be a humanitarian action, but they steel use the name humanitarian race, while it is not completely true. We will see in the next paragraph that this humanitarian action have been created in order to develop the race and to earn more money, not because it is a real humanitarian

To explain that I first spoke about the uselessness of the humanitarian action, then I said the goal of organisers was to earn money, and finally I showed the drawbacks of this type of action in poor countries. I am convinced that you think I am against 4l trophy, but it is not the case. I am just against the fact that people who organize claim it is humanitarian and green. But I think the principle of this race with old cars is a good idea, and I really understand that people who love cars and mechanics want to participate to this