 About 20 km to the west of the city, there is a 3 km long club track named Circuit Pau-Arnos.For the event, cars are set up with greater suspension travel than is typically utilised at a purpose-built racing circuit to minimise the effect of running on the more undulating tarmac of the street circuit.In 1900, as part of the 'Semaine de Pau', the newly created "Automobile-club du Béarn" held a race on a 300 km road circuit, called the "Circuit du sud-ouest" (Pau–Tarbes–Bayonne–Pau).