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It comes from the comic Asterix and the Chariot Race.
Here's a short of the story from wikipedia, spoiler - Julius Caesar secretly enters the race!:
It comes from the comic Asterix and the Chariot Race.
Here's a short of the story from wikipedia, spoiler - Julius Caesar secretly enters the race!:
Responding to criticism of the “deplorable” condition of Roman roads in the regions, Senator Lactus Bifidus proposes a chariot race across the Italic Peninsula to showcase the “excellent” roads. The race is open to all people of the known world. Julius Caesar endorses the race but insists that a Roman must win for the sake of unity across the Italic Peninsula. Otherwise, Bifidus will be exiled to Cyrenaica (now Libya).
In Gaul, Asterix and Obelix are taking Geriatrix to a dentist at a market in Darioritum, when a sibylpredicts Obelix will become a champion charioteer. Obelix then buys a sports chariot on credit, quits his menhir business and joins the trans-Italic race, accompanied by Asterix and Dogmatix. Over the course of the race, they encounter a range of competitors from other lands, as well as the people and cuisines of Ancient Italy.
Only five teams manage to complete the race, with the two Gauls narrow victors over Julius Caesar, who had secretly joined the race in an effort to save Rome's honor. Weary of the frantic pace of chariot racing, Obelix gives the trophy to Asterix, who hands it over to the Kushite team, who in turn give it to the Sarmatians. The trophy ends up with the perennially late Lusitanian team, who request the equivalent in sesterces. Obelix then declares he wants to return home and resume making menhirs.