Race staged by Mr. Hearst and City Hall increased enthusiasts.
Scooters and hippity hop balls will be used for a race staged at the preview.
However media reports originating in Brazil said the focus was on the sport's first night race staged in Singapore last September.
This spring, the WorldTour teams announced that they would boycott of the Tour of Beijing because it was the only race staged by the U.C.I.
The sport took off, with speed trials and drag races staged seemingly somewhere every weekend, and clandestine street drags each night in between.
The event is usually limited to about 375 vintage and classic cars that competed in the original 24 Mille Miglia road races staged between 1927 and 1957.
Fangio cut his teeth in long-distance races staged over thousands of miles on the dirt roads of South America.
In the five Olympic races staged since professional riders were allowed in, none has been won by a pure sprinter.
"So right now, we're taking this race stage by stage.
Leeds-Harrogate, 190.5km As in 2013, a simple road race stage starts the Tour rather than a prologue time trial.
The final road race stage will begin in the Paris suburb of Ville d'Avray, where the 21 finishers in the first Tour ended their voyage into the unknown.
