Complex sentence: Perhaps the high point of the firm's existence was the entry, in 1907, of one of its tricars in the Peking-Paris Race; the car, driven by Auguste Pons, failed to go very far.
Split into simpler sentences: Perhaps the high point of the firm's existence was the entry of one of its tricars in the Peking-Paris Race 1907. The car, driven by Auguste Pons, however failed to go very far.