Original sentence: Albert de Dion is first to arrive at Rouen in his de Dion-Bouton car, but the judges rule that his steam-powered vehicle is outside the competition's scope and a Panhard-Levassor is judged to be the winner.Although some private events have preceded it, this first real contest is organised by Paris magazine Le Petit Journal as a reliability test.July 22 – the beginning of motor racing can be traced to a run from Paris and Rouen.Racing of horse-drawn carriages has been popular among its participants in the past and it is a natural progression to race the new automobiles.The internal combustion engine has been developed from simple gas-fuelled designs during the preceding decades to the point where several technicians such as Karl Benz in Mannheim and the partnership of Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Stuttgart have built the first true automobiles during the 1880s
Edited sentence: Albert de Dion was first to arrive in Rouen in his de Dion-Bouton car, but the judges ruled that his steam-powered vehicle was outside the competition's scope and a Panhard-Levassor was judged to be the winner.Although some private events preceded it, this first real contest was organised by the Paris magazine Le Petit Journal as a reliability test.July 22 – the beginning of motor racing can be traced to a run from Paris to Rouen.Racing of horse-drawn carriages had been popular in the past and so it was natural that the racing of these new automobiles then became popular.The internal combustion engine had been developed from simple gas-fuelled designs during the preceding decades to the point where several technicians such as Karl Benz in Mannheim and the partnership of Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Stuttgart had built the first true automobiles during the 1880s