Solved: Wendax 2129 - IFA F9 Kübelwagen at the Friedensfahrt bicycle race

[Wendax]

Rule, Britannia!

For one point, please respond and identify this car as well as the venue where the picture was taken.

[gte4289]

Rule, Britannia!

For one point, please respond and identify this car as well as the venue where the picture was taken.

The car is easy: IFA F9 (309/4) Kübelwagen. The venue is going to take more time, however. Should I recognize one of these gentlemen? Brits behind the Iron Curtain, I presume?

[Wendax]

So far, so good. Locked for you to find out about the (quite known) event.

[gte4289]

So far, so good. Locked for you to find out about the (quite known) event.

Go ahead and unolock it. I'm thinking this event was probably not so well known to us Colonials. And it's just as well, as I believe I'll have reached "expert" status before I find the answer, placing this puzzle off limits to me.

[Wendax]

As you wish: unlocked

[Wendax]

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[Hiawatha]

Eastern bloc cycle race course de la paix?

[Wendax]

Yes, exactly!

[Wendax]

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