"My interest in Prouvé grew out of my interest in vintage cars," said Mr. Rubin, who owns a stable of prize racing cars and at one time employed two full-time mechanics to keep them in mint condition.
There was, though, a consolation prize: a race among the teams not advancing to the finals.
The controversy has partially obscured a tight contest for the academy's top prize, a race that the studio backers of three movies — "The Revenant," "The Big Short" and "Spotlight" — genuinely believe they will win.
Still, that is a bittersweet consolation prize for racing fans.
"When you have a prize-winning race horse," said Suzanne Madar, aged 59, "you don't change it for a donkey with a broken leg".
Competition might be Four Square or Bragster, but this adds prizes and race elements.
The forerunner to the German Grand Prix, the Kaiserpreis (Kaiser's Prize) was raced in 1907.
In the end, he bowed to the wishes of the horse's owner and breeder, the philanthropist Paul Mellon, who, at 85, was desperate to capture one of the few prizes in racing that had eluded him, a victory in the Kentucky Derby.
The Yorkshire upgrade comes in the wake of the successful launch in 2014 of the Aviva Women's Tour five-day event by the men's Tour of Britain organisers Sweetspot, who have always been open about their aim to put women's prize money and race organisation on a par with men's racing.
The race prize was a Ted Nugent album (don't judge me!), and I was not about to let that prize pass me by, so I decided to compete without telling anyone about my injury.
The other is California, the greatest prize in the race.
